Instructor
Tim Kraska

Tim Kraska

Associate Professor of Electrical Engineering and Computer Science, MIT
Member, Computer Science and Artificial Intelligence Laboratory (CSAIL)
Founding Co-Director, Data System and AI Lab (DSAIL)

Lead Instructor

Tim Kraska is an Associate Professor of Electrical Engineering and Computer Science in MIT Computer Science and Artificial Intelligence Laboratory (CSAIL), where he co-leads the Data Systems Group and is part of the Systems Community of Research (CoR). He is also the Founding Co-Director of MIT Data System and AI Lab (DSAIL) and co-founder of Einblick Analytics Inc, an MIT/Brown spin-off. His research is focused on dramatically increasing the efficiency of data-intensive systems and democratizing data science through machine learning (ML). His specific interests include ML-enhanced data structures and algorithms, systems for interactive data exploration and model building, transaction processing over high-speed networks, infrastructure for rack-scale analytics and machine learning, and hybrid human-machine data management systems. Tim spent several years as a Visiting Researcher at Google, where he worked with the with the MLX and Brain teams to pioneer the concept of learned index structures. Tim is a 2017 Alfred P. Sloan Research Fellow in computer science and his awards include a VLDB Early Career Research Contribution Award, a NSF CAREER Award, the 2017 VMware Systems Research Award, an Air Force Young Investigator award and several best papers and demo awards at SIGMOD, VLDB, and ICDE.