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Sergey Melnik is a software engineer 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, ICDE and OSDI conferences, 10-year Most Influential Paper Award from ICDE, VLDB Test of Time Award, and a best dissertation award
from the German C.S. Society.
At Google, Sergey is working on Spanner, a planet-scale transactional system that powers most of Google services and is available as a Cloud product. Before that, he led the development of the data analysis system called Dremel that was made publicly available as BigQuery, is a fully-managed, serverless data warehouse that enables scalable analytics over petabytes of data.
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.
Selected publications
- Dremel: A Decade of Interactive SQL Analysis at Web Scale. Invited paper for the VLDB'20 Test of Time Award (recorded talk). The award for given for the VLDB'10 paper:
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.
- The Seattle Report on Database Research, with D. Abadi, A. Ailamaki, D. Andersen, P. Bailis, M. Balazinska, P. A. Bernstein, P. A. Boncz, S. Chaudhuri, A. Cheung, A. Doan, L. Dong, M. J. Franklin, J. Freire, A. Y. Halevy, J. M. Hellerstein, S. Idreos, D. Kossmann, T. Kraska, S. Krishnamurthy, V. Markl, T. Milo, C. Mohan, T. Neumann, B. C. Ooi, F. Ozcan, J. Patel, A. Pavlo, R. A. Popa, R. Ramakrishnan, C. Ré, M. Stonebraker, D. Suciu. SIGMOD Rec. 48(4): 44-53 (2019)
- Spanner: Becoming a SQL System, with D. Bacon, N. Bales, N. Bruno, B. Cooper, A. Dickinson, A. Fikes, C. Fraser, A. Gubarev, M. Joshi, E. Kogan, A. Lloyd, C. Taylor, R. Rao, D. Shue, M. van der Holst, and D. Woodford. SIGMOD'17
- Spanner: Google's Globally-Distributed Database, with J. Corbett, J. Dean, M. Epstein, C. Frost, J. Furman, S. Ghemawat, A. Gubarev, C. Heiser, P. Hochschild, W. Hsieh, S. Kanthak, E. Kogan, H. Li, A. Lloyd, D. Mwaura, D. Nagle, S. Quinlan, R. Rao, L. Rolig, Y. Saito, M. Szymaniak, C. Taylor, R. Wang, and D. Woodford. OSDI'12 (Best Paper)
Selected talks
Recent program committee service
- VLDB'22, SIGMOD'21, CIDR'20, SIGMOD'20, VLDB'20, CIDR'19, SIGMOD'18, VLDB'18
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