Sujaya Maiyya
Assistant Professor at University of Waterloo
Waterloo, Ontario, Canada
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Top SchoolSujaya Maiyya is an Assistant Professor at the Cheriton School of Computer Science, University of Waterloo, with a decade of experience at the intersection of distributed systems, databases, and data privacy. She earned her PhD from UC Santa Barbara under co-advisors Amr El Abbadi and Divy Agrawal, followed by a brief postdoc at Cornell, and brings both academic rigor and industry experience from internships at Google and engineering work at Citrix. Her research designs, prototypes, and evaluates protocols that balance performance, fault tolerance, and security for large-scale data management. Practically minded, she has optimized backend throughput for Google Cloud services and helped add multi-tenant orchestration features at Citrix, showing a strong track record of translating research into production-relevant systems. Based in Waterloo, Ontario, she blends teaching and mentorship with an active research agenda focused on secure, high-performance distributed data systems.
10 years of coding experience
7 years of employment as a software developer
Doctor of Philosophy - PhD, Computer Science, Doctor of Philosophy - PhD, Computer Science at UC Santa BarbaraBachelor of Engineering (B.E.), Information Science, Bachelor of Engineering (B.E.), Information Science at PESIT
Kannada, English, Hindi
Github Skills (24)
automobile8
java4
prediction3
javascript3
distributed-computing3
kubernetes2
fault-tolerance2
hybrid-cloud2
geo2
python1
machine-learning1
sqlite1
datastore1
transactional1
postgresql1
Programming languages (2)
Github contributions (5)
Sujaya/kar
Jun 2021 - Sep 2021
KAR: A Runtime for the Hybrid Cloud
Contributions:42 pushes, 1 branch in 2 months
runtimecloudkuberneteshybrid-cloudhybrid
abhchennagiri/octopaul
Oct 2016 - Dec 2016
Contributions:34 PRs, 16 pushes in 1 month
pythonhotelsimprovedpredictioncommodities
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