Magdalena Balazinska

CSE 584
206-616-1069
magda '@' cs.washington.edu
Data Science, Data Management & Visualization
Areas of interest: Databases, cloud computing, big-data analytics, scientific data management, machine learning and data management, image and video analytics, data management for VR/AR

Awards and Honors

Best Paper Candidate at VLDB 2017. Invited to VLDB 2017 special issue in VLDB Journal.
ACM SIGMOD’s Test of Time Award (2017).
VLDB Women in Database Research Award (2016).
Jean Loup Baer Career Development Professorship in Computer Science and Engineering, 2014-2017.
UW CSE ACM Teaching Award 2012-2013.
Best lightning talk at XLDB (2012).
2nd place in the Best Paper Award Competition for the Challenges and Visions track (2011).
The 5th International Open Cirrus Summit: Best student paper award (2011).
Google Research Awards 2011 and 2018.
10-year most influential paper award at WCRE 2010.
HaLoop paper invited to the Best of VLDB 2010 issue of VLDB Journal, VLDB 2010.
NSF CAREER Award (2009).
HP Labs Innovation Research Award (2009 and 2010).
Microsoft Research New Faculty Fellow (2007).
Rogel Faculty Support Award (2006).
Microsoft Research Graduate Fellowship (2003-2005).
USENIX Security Symposium: Best student paper award (2002).
NSERC scholarship for graduate studies (2000-2002).
FCAR scholarship for graduate studies (2000-2001).
NSERC scholarship for graduate studies (1998-99).
Fessenden-Trott scholarship (1995-1998).
Canada Scholars (scholarship from Canadian government) (1994-1998).
Ecole Polytechnique de Montreal scholarship (1994-1997).