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.

• Biography
• Honors
• Research
• Service
• Teaching
• Publications
• Students

Awards and Honors

• Member of the American Academy of Arts and Sciences as of 2026.

• Member of the Washington State Academy of Science as of 2025.

• Test of Time Award, 2025, CIDR.

• PVLDBVol16 Distinguished Associate Editor, 2023.

• Bill and Melinda Gates Chair in Computer Science, 2022 - Present

• ACM Fellow as of 2019.

• 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).