Computer Science and Artificial Intelligence Laboratory
Massachusetts Institute of Technology
32 Vassar Street
Cambridge, MA 02139
Email: [My Last Name] (at) mit.edu

MIT Data Systems Group MIT Everest Project

Presentations

I am currently looking for an industry position starting June 2026. You can find my CV here.

2025/09/04 From Logs to Causal Inference: Diagnosing Large Systems
Markos Markakis, Brit Youngmann, Trinity Gao, Ziyu Zhang, Rana Shahout, Peter Baile Chen, Chunwei Liu, Ibrahim Sabek, and Michael Cafarella
51st International Conference on Very Large Data Bases (VLDB 2025), London, UK
2025/09/03 Improving DBMS Scheduling Decisions with Fine-grained Performance Prediction on Concurrent Queries
Ziniu Wu, Markos Markakis, Chunwei Liu, Peter Baile Chen, Balakrishnan (Murali) Narayanaswamy, Tim Kraska, and Samuel Madden
51st International Conference on Very Large Data Bases (VLDB 2025), London, UK
2025/05/10 Cloud Data Processing with Cost-Efficient Latency SLOs using Probabilistic Query Performance Prediction
Markos Markakis, Ziniu Wu, Tim Kraska
1st Hellenic American Meeting of Early-Career Researchers (HAMER 2025), Cambridge, MA
2024/06/14 Press ECCS to Doubt (Your Causal Graph)
Markos Markakis, Ziyu Zhang, Rana Shahout, Trinity Gao, Chunwei Liu, Ibrahim Sabek, Michael Cafarella
1st Workshop on Governance, Understanding and Integration of Data for Effective and Responsible AI (GUIDE-AI 2024), Santiago, Chile
2024/06/11 Sawmill: From Logs to Causal Diagnosis of Large Systems
Markos Markakis, An Bo Chen, Brit Youngmann, Trinity Gao, Ziyu Zhang, Rana Shahout, Peter Baile Chen, Chunwei Liu, Ibrahim Sabek, Michael Cafarella
2024 ACM SIGMOD/PODS International Conference on Management of Data (SIGMOD 2024), Santiago, Chile
2024/05/23 Sawmill: From Logs to Causal Diagnosis of Large Systems
Markos Markakis, An Bo Chen, Brit Youngmann, Trinity Gao, Ziyu Zhang, Rana Shahout, Peter Baile Chen, Chunwei Liu, Ibrahim Sabek, Michael Cafarella
North East Database (NEDB) Day 2024, Boston, MA
2024/05/23 Virtualizing Cloud Data Infrastructures with BRAD
Geoffrey X. Yu, Ziniu Wu, Ferdinand Kossmann, Tianyu Li, Markos Markakis, Amadou L Ngom, Tim Kraska, Samuel Madden
North East Database (NEDB) Day 2024, Boston, MA
2024/05/23 Press ECCS to Doubt (Your Causal Graph)
Markos Markakis, Ziyu Zhang, Rana Shahout, Trinity Gao, Chunwei Liu, Ibrahim Sabek, Michael Cafarella
North East Database (NEDB) Day 2024, Boston, MA
2024/04/03 Sawmill: Extracting Log Data for Causal Diagnosis of Large Systems
Markos Markakis, Brit Youngmann, Trinity Gao, Ziyu Zhang, Rana Shahout, Peter Baile Chen, Chunwei Liu, Ibrahim Sabek, Michael Cafarella
CSAIL Alliances Annual Meeting 2024, Cambridge, MA
2023/08/31 TreeLine: An Update-In-Place Key-Value Store for Modern Storage
Geoffrey X. Yu*, Markos Markakis*, Andreas Kipf*, Per-Ake Larson, Umar Farooq Minhas, and Tim Kraska
49th International Conference on Very Large Data Bases (VLDB 2023), Vancouver, Canada
2023/08/29 Check Out the Big Brain on BRAD: Simplifying Cloud Data Processing with Learned Automated Data Meshes
Tim Kraska*, Tianyu Li*, Samuel Madden*, Markos Markakis*, Amadou Ngom*, Ziniu Wu*, and Geoffrey X. Yu*
49th International Conference on Very Large Data Bases (VLDB 2023), Vancouver, Canada
2023/03/10 Learning-Based Creation of Data Mesh Architectures
Tim Kraska*, Tianyu Li*, Samuel Madden*, Markos Markakis*, Amadou Ngom*, Ziniu Wu*, and Geoffrey X. Yu*
North East Database (NEDB) Day 2023, Boston, MA
2023/03/10 Automatically Extracting and Annotating Models From Scientific Publications and Code
Markos Markakis, Chunwei Liu, Peter Baile Chen, Michael Cafarella
North East Database (NEDB) Day 2023, Boston, MA
2023/03/10 TreeLine: An Update-In-Place Key-Value Store for Modern Storage
Geoffrey X. Yu*, Markos Markakis*, Andreas Kipf*, Per-Ake Larson, Umar Farooq Minhas, and Tim Kraska
North East Database (NEDB) Day 2023, Boston, MA
2022/10/20 TreeLine: An Update-In-Place Key-Value Store for Modern Storage
Geoffrey X. Yu*, Markos Markakis*, Andreas Kipf*, Per-Ake Larson, Umar Farooq Minhas, and Tim Kraska
DSAIL Retreat, Cambridge, MA