Ioan Stefanovici
Principal Researcher
About
I’m a Principal Research Manager in the Future AI Infrastructure team at Microsoft Research Cambridge (opens in new tab). My research focuses on inventing the infrastructure for AI systems and I am particularly interested in novel, disruptive memory and storage technologies. I lead a small team of researchers and developers who solve hard systems challenges, sometimes using machine learning.
Previously, I spent ~ 8 years working on Project Silica (opens in new tab), where we developed the first-ever archival storage technology designed and built from the ground up for the cloud, by using femtosecond lasers to store data in glass, and polarization microscopy + ML to read it back.
I have a broad interest in computer systems, in particular in large-scale data centre systems and storage. I received my PhD (CS, 2016), MSc (CS, 2012), and HBSc (CS, 2010) from the University of Toronto (opens in new tab). I was also the Microsoft Research Fellow at Corpus Christi College (opens in new tab), at the University of Cambridge (opens in new tab) from 2016-2018.