Magdalena Bałazińska is a computer scientist whose research concerns

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s and

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s. Born in Poland and educated in Algeria, Canada, and the US, she works at the

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, where she directs the Paul G. Allen School of Computer Science & Engineering.

Education and career

Balazinska was born in Poland. Her family moved to Algeria, where she studied in a Polish and French speaking school, and then to

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, Canada, where she did her university studies in computer engineering at the

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. She completed her Ph.D. in computer science in 2005 at the

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. Her dissertation, ''Fault-Tolerance and Load Management in a Distributed Stream Processing System'', was supervised by

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. She joined the University of Washington faculty in 2006, and served the university as Director of the eScience Institute and Associate Vice Provost for Data Science before, in 2019, being appointed as director of the Paul G. Allen School of Computer Science & Engineering.

Recognition

Balazinska's work on fault-tolerant distributed stream processing and on reengineering software clones has won awards for its long-term impact. She was elected as an

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in 2019 "for contributions to scalable distributed data systems".

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* {{DEFAULTSORT:Balazinska, Magdalena Year of birth missing (living people) Living people American women computer scientists American computer scientists Polish women computer scientists Polish computer scientists Université de Montréal alumni University of Washington Paul G. Allen School of Computer Science & Engineering faculty 2019 fellows of the Association for Computing Machinery MIT School of Engineering alumni 21st-century American women scientists 21st-century American scientists American women academics Polish emigrants to the United States