The personal website and blog of Ryan Marcus, a postdoc at MIT CSAIL. I'm on the academic job market this year. I'm using machine learning to build the next generation of data systems.

      
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About Me

I'm Ryan Marcus. I'm using machine learning to build the next generation of data management tools that automatically adapt to new hardware and user workloads, invent novel processing strategies, and understand user intention. I'm currently on the academic job market! You can view my application materials below. Feel free to reach out via email (inside CV).

I'm currently a CS postdoc researcher at MIT under the supervision of Tim Kraska. I'm also a researcher at Intel Labs.

MIT

Postdoc April 2019 - present

Google

Ph.D. intern Summer 2018

Microsoft Research

Ph.D. intern Summer 2017

HPE Vertica

Software engineer 2016 - 2017

Los Alamos National Lab

HPC software engineer 2007 - 2015

Brandeis University

CS Ph.D. student 2014 - 2019

University of Arizona

Undergraduate 2010 - 2014

Featured Publications

Bao: Making Learned Query Optimization Practical
1. Ryan Marcus
2. Parimarjan Negi
3. Hongzi Mao
4. Nesime Tatbul
5. Mohammad Alizadeh
6. Tim Kraska
SIGMOD '21 (pdf) best paper award
Benchmarking Learned Indexes
1. Ryan Marcus
2. Andreas Kipf
3. Alexander Van Renen
4. Mihail Stoian
5. Sanchit Misra
6. Alfons Kemper
7. Thomas Neumann
8. Tim Kraska
VLDB '21 (pdf)

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Blog Posts

Applying Bao to distributed systems 17 Jun 2021 We can apply Bao, a technique for learned query optimization, to a number of distributed cloud databases ...
Machine learning for systems 06 Jun 2019 A recent groundswell of research has been pushing machine learning into computer systems ...
Good comment, bad comment 05 Nov 2018 A few collected tips on writing readable code ...
Overflow in consistent hashing 14 Sep 2018 Exploring the implications of fixed-capacity machines in consistent hashing schemes ...
Pretty pictures with perlin noise fields 04 Mar 2018 Procedurally generated flurry-like graphics and videos with particle tracing in a Perlin noise field ...
Computer-generated lines with a human feel 23 Oct 2017 Computers can create lines that look hand drawn ...
The often-overlooked random forest kernel 04 Oct 2017 Random forest models can be used to measure the similarity between datapoints. This allows random forests to be used as very effective kernel functions ...

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