Assistant Professor Oana Balmau wins CORE John Makepeace Bennett Award

Oct. 27, 2020

The School congratulates Oana Balmau - who will be joining us as an assistant professor in January - for winning the CORE John Makepeace Bennett Award  for the best Australian dissertation in Computer Science! Oana works on data storage systems, redesigning persistent key-value stores for future workloads, hardware, and performance requirements. She is just one of four outstanding new profs joining us this year, including also:

• Robert Robere (complexity theory);
• David Rolnick (machine learning; climate change);
• Xujie Si (programming languages; machine learning).