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Magdalena Balazinska

  • CSE 584
  • 206-616-1069
  • magda '@' cs.washington.edu
  • Data Science, Data Management & Visualization
  • Areas of interest: Database management systems, AI and data management, multimodal data management, cloud computing, big-data analytics, image and video analytics.

Appointments and Affiliations

Director, Professor, and Bill & Melinda Gates Chair, Paul G. Allen School of Computer Science & Engineering.

Member of the American Academy of Arts and Sciences

Member of the Washington State Academy of Sciences

Senior Data Science Fellow, UW eScience Institute.

ACM Fellow

I co-direct the Database group at UW and am the co-founder of the Northwest Database Society (NWDS).

Short Bio

Magdalena Balazinska is Professor, Bill & Melinda Gates Chair, and Director of the Paul G. Allen School of Computer Science & Engineering at the University of Washington. Magdalena’s research interests are in the field of database management systems. Her current research focuses on multimodal data management as well as the intersection of AI and data management. Her earlier work made contributions in a variety of areas including stream processing, big data processing, and cloud computing. Prior to her leadership of the Allen School, Magdalena was the Director of the eScience Institute and the Associate Vice Provost for Data Science. Magdalena is a Member of the American Academy of Arts and Sciences, a Member of the Washington State Academy of Sciences, and an ACM Fellow. She holds a Ph.D. from the Massachusetts Institute of Technology (2006).

Shortly after her arrival at the University of Washington, she was named a Microsoft Research New Faculty Fellow (2007). Magdalena received the inaugural VLDB Women in Database Research Award (2016) for her work on scalable distributed data systems. She also received an ACM SIGMOD Test-of-Time Award (2017) and a CIDR Test-of-Time Award (2025) for her work on distributed stream processing and a 10-year most influential paper award (2010) from her earlier work on reengineering software clones. Magdalena also received an NSF CAREER Award (2009), the UW CSE ACM Teaching Award (2013), the Jean Loup Baer Career Development Professorship in Computer Science and Engineering (2014-2017), and multiple best-paper (and “best of”) awards.

Contact

Office: AC104

Email: magda ’@’ cs.washington.edu

Phone: (206) 616-1069

Mail:
Magdalena Balazinska, Professor
University of Washington
Computer Science & Engineering
Box 352350
Seattle, WA 98195-2350