Biography

I am a Senior Lecturer in Data Analytics and ARC DECRA Fellow in the School of Computing and Information Systems (CIS), as well as Associate Dean (Diversity and Inclusion) for the Faculty of Engineering and IT at the University of Melbourne. My research lies at the intersection of database systems, machine learning and artificial intelligence, data-driven optimisation and analytics. To optimize performance and cost of data analytics services, I envision database systems as adaptive self-driving engines able to adjust their query execution strategy at runtime to fit the characteristics of the queries, data and underlying hardware. I am also interested in the topics of scientific data management, data exploration, query optimization, physical database design, data cleaning, and data-driven (traffic) optimization. The quality and impact of my work is recognised with several notable awards, including L'Oréal-UNESCO for Women in Science Fellowship in 2023, 2x Research Excellence Awards (for Early Career Researcher in 2022 and Mid Career Researcher in 2023), 2x Excellence in Teaching and Learning Awards (in 2018 and 2020), Google Research Inclusion Award in 2021, as well as Test of Time Award (at SIGMOD 2022).