Tim Kraska is director of applied science at Amazon Web Services (AWS), an associate professor of electrical engineering and computer science in MIT's Computer Science and Artificial Intelligence Laboratory, co-director of the Data System and AI LAB in MIT’s CSAIL (DSAIL@CSAIL), co-founder of Instancio (acquired), and co-founder of Einblick Analytics (einblick.ai).  

His current research focuses on building systems for machine learning, and using machine learning for systems. Before joining MIT, Tim was an assistant professor at Brown University. He 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 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.