Speaker
Dr Jelena Pješivac-Grbović, Senior Software Engineer, Systems Infrastructure, Google.
Abstract
Cloud Dataflow is a fully-managed cloud service and programming model for batch and streaming big data processing. In this talk, we'll focus on the Dataflow programming model and its major concepts by tackling the problem of building a backend for a mobile game.
Biography
Dr Jelena Pješivac-Grbović is a senior software engineer in Systems Infrastructure at Google Inc., in Mountain View, California, focusing on distributed data processing frameworks (such as MapReduce and Google Cloud Dataflow).
Jelena's research interests include data processing at petascale, distributed, and cloud computing.
She is an active member of IEEE, ACM, and SWE.
She received the Ph.D. in Computer Science from the University of Tennessee, Knoxville, under supervision of Dr. Jack J. Dongarra.
Prior to joining Google Inc. she actively contributed to the implementation and optimizations of the MPI collective operations in OpenMPI and FT-MPI projects
About RCC/MURPA Seminar Series
RCC and MURPA (Monash Undergraduate Research Projects Abroad) co-host an IT-focused seminar series in the second semester each year.
Speakers are leaders in their field — from either the academic world, government or industry — and are often based overseas.
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