The personal website and blog of Ryan Marcus, a postdoc at MIT CSAIL. I research applications of machine learning to both traditional and cloud databases.

About Me

I'm currently a CS postdoc researcher at MIT under the supervision of Tim Kraska. I research applications of machine learning to both traditional and cloud databases.

MIT Postdoc April 2019 - present Google Ph.D. intern Summer 2018 Microsoft Research Ph.D. intern Summer 2017 HPE Vertica Software engineer 2016 - 2017 Los Alamos National Lab HPC software engineer 2007 - 2015 Brandeis University CS Ph.D. student 2014 - 2019 University of Arizona Undergraduate 2010 - 2014

Featured Publications

Neo: A Learned Query Optimizer Ryan Marcus Parimarjan Negi Hongzi Mao Chi Zhang Mohammad Alizadeh Tim Kraska Olga Papaemmanouil Nesime Tatbul VLDB '19 pdf)

NashDB: An End-to-End Economic Method for Elastic Database Fragmentation, Replication, and Provisioning Ryan Marcus Olga Papaemmanouil Sofiya Semenova Solomon Garber SIGMOD '18 pdf)

See all ...

Blog Posts