Jialin Ding, expert in databases and systems, has joined the dept.
“To most people, databases are kind of opaque, because they work behind the scenes,” Ding said. While a typical user doesn’t interact with databases directly, they power nearly every application.
Ding’s research focuses on using machine learning techniques to tailor data storage and indexing to the unique needs of the user or the application, in order to optimize speed and efficiency.
