Research in the Data Systems Group at Microsoft Research focuses on several aspects of large-scale cloud data platforms and services, and novel ways to accelerate discovering insight from data. We are interested in a variety of topics including resource management, storage and indexing, caching, query optimization and query execution, security, self-service data cleaning and transformation at scale, data quality, and search and discovery of structured data.

Our past research has been incorporated into Microsoft’s platforms such as SQL Server, Azure SQL Database, Azure Stream Analytics, Orleans, Power BI, Dynamics, and Bing. Many of our systems artifacts have been open-sourced and have had impact across industry and academia. Our research has also had significant impact on the academic community with influential publications at top conferences such as ACM SIGMOD, VLDB, and IEEE ICDE including multiple best paper awards and test-of-time awards.

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