Braginsky Anastasia

About

Dr. Braginsky was born and raised in Chisinau, the capital of Moldova. At the age of six, she began ballroom dancing, "and I knew immediately that this is what I wanted to do," she confessed. However, she only danced as an amateur before immigrating to Israel and beginning her studies at the Technion. At the age of 14, she made aliyah alone through the Naaleh (Youth Aliyah Before Parents) program. She was placed in a boarding school in Bustan HaGalil and studied at Bosmat, a high school for science and technology education established by the Technion in 1928. In 2000, she began the first of her three degrees at the Technion's Henry and Marilyn Taub Faculty of Computer Science. She completed her doctorate there in 2014 and now teaches a course on operating systems. Between finishing her bachelor's degree and starting her master's, she worked at the IBM Research Labs in Haifa. Just as in dancing, she steadily advanced in the high-tech world. Braginsky worked at Yahoo! for nearly eight years and now works full-time as a research supervisor at Red Hat, where she studies all aspects of parallel and distributed computer systems. Anastasia Braginsky is a research scientist in the Red Hat research team. She lives in Haifa, Israel. Her main research interests span parallel programming and concurrent data structures for multi-core architecture, scalable systems, and platforms for big data processing, including scalable key-value stores. Before joining Red Hat research projects, she contributed to open-source projects (HBase, Oak), published papers in academic conferences and journals, and also served as a PC member in top-tier conferences in her area of expertise. Anastasia received her B.Sc. (summa cum laude) and Ph.D. (direct track) from the Computer Science Faculty at Technion, Israel Institute of Technology, in 2004 and 2015, respectively. Her Ph.D. is in the field of distributed and parallel computing and focuses on non-blocking concurrent data structures and their memory management. Before her graduate studies (2002-2009), she was a CAD tools developer at Intel and later a microcode developer in the storage group at IBM Haifa Research Lab (HRL). After her Ph.D. graduation (2015-2022), she worked as a senior research scientist in the search systems research team at Yahoo! Research Lab.