Natacha Crooks. PhD Student in Computer Science. Nationality British, French &
Irish. Date of Birth 21/02/1991
. Education.
Natacha Crooks PhD Student in Computer Science Nationality British, French & Irish Date of Birth 21/02/1991
[email protected] Education PhD in Computer Science - Consistency in Distributed Systems Supervised by Lorenzo Alvisi and Allen Clement University of Texas at Austin and Max Planck Institute for Software Systems, USA and Germany Certificate of Postgraduate Studies Supervised by Steven Hand Systems Research Group, Computer Laboratory, Cambridge, UK
2013 -
2012 - 2013
BA Computer Science - 1st Class Degree (90%) - Ranked 1st in year Dissertation: Data-centric Concurrency Control in Databases (93%) University of Cambridge, Cambridge, UK
June 2012
Double Maitrise (French & British Law) - 2.i - Ranked 1st in French Law University of Cambridge, Cambridge, UK and University Paris 2 - Assas, Paris, France
June 2009
French Baccalaureate - Scientific Section 18.33/20 (Top 1% Percentile) Ecole Alsacienne, Paris, France
June 2008
Experience Microsoft Research, Intern Redmond, USA • Data Management and Mining Group, supervised by Phil Bernstein • Design of a framework for geo-distributed application building University of Texas at Austin, Visiting Researcher Austin, USA • Laboratory for Advanced Systems Research, supervised by Lorenzo Alvisi • Work on geo-distributed storage.
May 2015- August 2015
August 2014 - May 2015
Imperial College, Undergraduate Research Fellowship London, UK June 2012-September 2012 • Distributed Systems Group, supervised by Dr. Peter Pietzuch • Analysis of Lightweight Virtualisation Strategies for Stream-Processing Systems MPI-SWS, Undergraduate Research Fellowship Saarbruecken, Germany June 2011-September 2011 • Dependable Systems Group, supervised by Dr. Rodrigo Rodrigues and Dr. Allen Clement • Modification of concurrency control mechanisms in non distributed databases (MySQL) to support eventual consistency locally Materna Gmbh, Research & Development Division, Developer Dortmund, Germany June 2010-September 2010 • Developed Bluetooth Support for the JMEDS Framework for Web Services (Java edition for DPWS Stack) Dr. Hille Und Partners, Criminal Law Division Augsburg, Germany
June 2009-August 2009 1
• Assistant to Barrister in the German Criminal Court. Gunn Report for Media, IT Assistant Paris, France • Database Engineering and Maintenance for the Gunn Report For Media
2007-
Publications and Posters Eurosys 2015, Musketeer, One for All Data Processing Frameworks OSDI 2014, TARDiS: Transactional Storage with Parallel Worlds (Poster) Eurosys 2013, Lightweight Software Fault Isolation for Stream Processing (Poster) EuroDW 2013, Consistency in Distributed Systems: Branch Isolation EuroDW 2013, Musketeer: It’s Time for Framework Diversity Teaching Databases, Second Year Undergraduate Course, Cambridge Teaching Assistant Bioinformatics, Third Year Undergraduate Course, Cambridge Teaching Assistant Prolog, Second Year Undergraduate Course, Cambridge Teaching Assistant Code Club, Teaching Computer Science to Primary School Children French Teacher, Tutoring 6-12 Year Olds , Barcelona, Spain
2012-2013 2012-2013 2012-2013 2013 Summer 2007
Awards and Honours Harrington Fellowship, Awarded to outstanding incoming graduate students, UT Austin 2015-2020 Google European Doctoral Fellowship in Distributed Computing, 3-year fellowship awarded to 40 students world-wide, Google May 2014 Student Travel Scholarships, Eurosys 2013, DISC 2013, SOSP 2013, DISC 2014, OSDI 2014 2014 Redgate Prize for the Best Student, Awarded to the student with the highest marks in the Computer Science Undergraduate Course, University of Cambridge June 2012 Gloucester Research Prize for the Best Final Year Individual Project, Awarded to the student who obtained the highest mark in the final year dissertation,University of Cambridge June 2012 Wright Prize, and Gummer Scholar, Awarded for outstanding academic performance, St John’s College, Cambridge June 2012 Cunningham Year Prize, Awarded to St John’s undergraduate with best final year results (across subjects) St John’s College, Cambridge June 2012 St John’s College Computer Science Prize, Best academic performance in Computer Science, St John’s College, Cambridge June 2012 Science, Engineering and Technology Student of the Year Awards, Shortlisted as part of 3 European undergraduates London, United Kingdom September 2012 Languages English, Native French, Native German, Fluent Spanish, Proficient Chinese, French Baccalaureate (Level B2) Activities and Interests Football, University Varsity Team 2008 - 2012 (Blue), National French Development Squad (under 16) Judo, Black Belt Candidate Referees Dr. Allen Clement Google Zurich Switzerland
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Dr. Lorenzo Alvisi University of Texas Austin Austin USA
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Dr. Rodrigo Rodrigues Universidade Nova Lisbon Portugal
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Dr. Steven Hand MSR SVC Mountain View USA Steven.Hand.cl.cam.ac.uk
