Technical Talks

Natacha Crooks is an Assistant Professor at UC Berkeley, a Visiting Researcher at Azure Systems Research (Security & Privacy), as well as a consultant to several early stage startups. She works at the intersection of distributed systems and databases, with a specific focus on performance and fault-tolerance. She is a Sloan Fellow, NSF CAREER awardee, and recipient of the ACM SIGOPS Dennis Ritchie Dissertation Award.