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Sergey Melnik is a member of technical staff at Google. Before that he was a researcher in the Database Group at Microsoft Research (2003-2008), a visiting researcher in the Stanford Database Group (1999-2002), and served as an invited expert at the World-Wide Web Consortium. He got an M.S. and a Ph.D. in Computer Science from the University of Leipzig, Germany. He received best paper awards at SIGMOD and ICDE conferences, and a best dissertation award from the German C.S. Society.

At Google, Sergey develops data management solutions for web-scale datasets. His recent work was published in the Research Highlights section of CACM. Previously, at Microsoft he was doing research on model management, object-to-relational mapping for the ADO.NET Entity Framework, XML-to-relational mapping, and schema matching, much of it with Phil Bernstein and the Data Programmability team in SQL Server.

Recent publications

• Dremel: Interactive Analysis of Web-Scale Datasets, with A. Gubarev, J. J. Long, G. Romer, S. Shivakumar, M. Tolton, and T. Vassilakis. VLDB'10 (slides). Invited article in CACM Research Highlights, prefaced with Technical Perspective by Mike Franklin.
  
  
• Reverse Engineering Models from Databases to Bootstrap Application Development, with A. Malpani, P.A. Bernstein, and J. Terwilliger. ICDE'10 (demo)
  
  
• Full-Fidelity Flexible Object-Oriented XML Access, with J.F. Terwilliger and P.A. Bernstein. VLDB'09.
  
  
• Compiling Mappings to Bridge Applications and Databases, with A. Adya and P.A. Bernstein. SIGMOD'07 (Best Paper),  journal version (TODS'08)
  

Recent talks

• The Frontiers of Data Programmability,  Keynote at the German database conference (BTW'09), Münster

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