Gen AI and SPE

Monday, Nov 9, 2026 11AM ET

Tim Kraska (MIT)

Join us 11am ET Monday, Nov 9, when Tim Kraska speaks about Gen AI and software performance engineering (SPE). Details TBA.

Bio

Tim Kraska is a professor of Electrical Engineering and Computer Science (EECS) in MIT's Computer Science and Artificial Intelligence Laboratory (CSAIL), co-director of MIT’s Generative AI Impact Consortium (MGAIC), the Data Systems and AI Lab (DSAIL@CSAIL), and the Everest@CSAIL initiative, and was a co-founder of Instancio, Einblick Analytics (both acquired), and now G5 Labs. His research focuses on using ML/GenAI for data systems. Before joining MIT, Tim was an Assistant Professor at Brown University and spent time at Google Brain. He also served as a Director of Applied Science at Amazon Web Services (AWS). Tim is a 2017 Alfred P. Sloan Research Fellow in computer science and has received several awards, including the VLDB Early Career Research Contribution Award, the Intel Outstanding Researcher Award, the VMware Systems Research Award, the university-wide Early Career Research Achievement Award at Brown University, an NSF CAREER Award, as well as several best paper and demo awards at VLDB, SIGMOD, and ICDE.