Reflections On My Data Management Research Journey (VLDB Women in Database Research Award Talk).

Data-driven decision making is critical for all kinds of enterprises, public and private. It has been my mission to find more efficient, and effective ways to store, manage, query and analyze data to drive actionable insights. Throughout my career, I worked on many different technologies and systems, including semi-structured query processing, and large-scale data analytics. In this talk, I will talk about lessons learned, both technical and non-technical, using two of these systems as examples.