For the 6th IEEE-HKN meeting, we had a special guest Somayeh Sardashti from Google who will talk about work at Google and transition from academia to industry.

Bio: Somayeh Sardashti is a Software Engineer at Google, where she works in the F1 Query team. F1 Query is a distributed SQL query engine used extensively at Google to query Google’s data. Before that, Somayeh worked at Oracle on Exadata storage server and database machines. Somayeh earned her PhD degree in Computer Sciences from University of Wisconsin-Madison. Her PhD research was focused on designing efficient computing systems under power constraint. Somayeh has published several conference and journal papers, a book, as well as some patents.