Keynote Speakers
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Johannes Gehrke is a Distinguished Engineer at Microsoft where he is working on the Office Graph, Delve, and Office 365. He is part of the Office 365 Senior Leadership Team. From 1999 to 2005, Johannes was the Tisch University Professor at Cornell University with research in database systems and data science, where he graduated 24 PhD students. Johannes has received a National Science Foundation Career Award, an Arthur P. Sloan Fellowship, a Humboldt Research Award, an IEEE Computer Society Technical Achievement Award, and a Blavatnik Award for Young Scientists from the New York Academy of Sciences. He co-authored the undergraduate textbook Database Management Systems (McGrawHill (2002), currently in its third edition), used at universities all over the world. Johannes is an ACM Fellow. Johannes was Program co-Chair of SIGKDD 2004, VLDB 2007, ICDE 2012, SOCC 2014, and ICDE 2015. From 2007 to 2008, he was Chief Scientist at FAST, a Microsoft Subsidiary. -
Vijay K Narayanan leads the Algorithms and Data Science efforts in the Information Management and Machine Learning group in Microsoft, where he works on building and leveraging machine learning platforms, tools and solutions to solve analytic problems in diverse domains. Earlier, he worked as a Principal Scientist at Yahoo! Labs, where he worked on building cloud based machine learning applications in computational advertising, as an Analytic Science Manager in FICO where he worked on launching a product to combat identify theft and application fraud using machine learning, as a Modeling Researcher at ACI Worldwide, and as a Sloan Digital Sky Survey research fellow in Astrophysics at Princeton University where he co-discovered the ionization boundary and the four farthest quasars in the universe.He received a Bachelor of Technology degree from IIT, Chennai and a PhD in Astronomy from The Ohio State University. Narayanan has authored or coauthored approximately 55 peer-reviewed papers in astrophysics, 10 papers in machine learning and data mining techniques and applications, and 15 patents (filed or granted). He is deeply interested in the theoretical, applied and business aspects of large scale data mining and machine learning, and has indiscriminate interests in statistics, information retrieval, extraction, signal processing, information theory and large scale computing.
Engineering Talks
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Deepak Bansal runs the Software Defined Network (SDN) team for Microsoft. He has been leading Networking for Azure since 2008, being a member of the founding team for Microsoft Azure. He pioneered the implementation and deployment of SDN in Microsoft Azure scaling it to millions of customer networks and delivering millions of automated customer initiated network changes per day. He is active member of the SDN community, chairing configuration management working group in ONF and part of ONF board. Prior to Azure/SDN, he led the development of NetIO TCP/IP stack and IPv6 implementation for Windows. He has masters and bachelors in computer science from MIT and IIT Delhi respectively. He holds over 20 issued patents. His areas of interest include SDN, NFV, congestion control, wireless networks, network protocols, cloud, distributed systems, reliability and scale. -
Abolade Gbadegesin works on the foundation for apps across Windows, Windows Phone, Xbox, and other Microsoft devices as a developer in the Microsoft Windows and Devices Group (WDG). Prior to his work in WDG, Abolade helped to build the original Windows Phone product and, before that, he worked on the cloud storage backend for OneDrive (formerly SkyDrive). He also led the design of the cloud services for Live Mesh and the first major overhaul of the core networking technologies for Windows. Abolade holds a Bachelor’s Degree in Computer Science from Harvard University. -
Sriram Rao leads CISL, an applied research group that works closely with Microsoft’s Big Data teams (namely, Scope/Cosmos/HDInsight). He has been closely involved in building a scale-out resource management infrastructure using Hadoop/YARN and tiered storage. He also collaborates extensively with MSR researchers. He has published papers at top conferences such as SIGCOMM, Eurosys, VLDB, and SOSP. Prior to Microsoft, Sriram was the primary designer/implementer of KFS (Kosmos filesystem) which was subsequently released as an open source project. KFS has since been deployed on large clusters at Quantcast, where it has become their primary data store and is used to process over 20PB/day. Since joining Microsoft in 2012, he has been a strong advocate for embracing/enhancing OSS infrastructure components as a way to (quickly) develop new services on Azure.