I am proud to announce a new kind of collaboration between @RemziArpaciD's group at UW–Madison Computer Sciences, and Microsoft folks (from Microsoft Gray Systems Lab, Microsoft SQL Server, and Microsoft Research): A virtual Seminar (and Lab) class on "Machine Learning Optimized Systems" aka.ms/MLOS_Seminar . 1/n

We're excited to launch a weekly virtual seminar series on ML Optimized Systems w/ UW–Madison & Microsoft Gray Systems Lab. Starting Sep 21, 2020 speakers from industry & academia will discuss practical implications of using ML for building future systems: aka.ms/MLOS_Seminar Microsoft SQL Server

Today, we’re making additional commitments to help schools, workers, and nonprofits in Washington state get the resources they need to recover from the impact of COVID-19. blogs.microsoft.com/on-the-issues/…

The 2021 Microsoft Research Faculty Fellowship recognizes innovative, promising early-career professors exploring high-impact research. Recipients will be awarded $100,000 annually for two years. Learn more about the nomination process: aka.ms/AAay4q1

Glad to announce our new workshop to be held at VLDB 2021, co-chaired with Professor Tim Kraska from MIT and Stratos Idreos from Harvard. We welcome speaker nominations (including self nominations). Please see the post below for more details.

It's late in the summer intern recruiting cycle, but if you are (or know) a PhD student looking to intern this summer at MSR on key-value stores and storage designs, including read/write amplification, compaction, low memory scenarios, DM/email me.

Very glad to announce the AIDB workshop co-located with VLDB 2021, and co-organized with Yingjun Wu // Vibe Mode 🤘, Berthold Reinwald, Bingsheng He, and our distinguished PC members. Submissions are now open till Friday, May 28th, 2021. More details: lnkd.in/gHEyP8V. #aidb2021 #vldb2021

We published our CIDR’21 panel discussion, including the offline discussion, on the state of ML in Databases as a short paper

Congratulations to Khuzaima, Brad, and Fangyu!

Co-chairing the 4th installment of the AIDB Workshop @VLDB2022. Looking forward to your submissions!