Assistant Professor – Faculty of Computing & Data Sciences
Krzysztof Onak is the Shibulal Family Career Development Assistant Professor in the Faculty of Computing & Data Sciences at Boston University. He has worked for a number of years in industry, most recently at IBM T.J. Watson Research Center, before being appointed the first full-time faculty member in BU’s new Faculty of Computing and Data Sciences. His expertise lies in the field of algorithms for big data and AI applications, and his main research interests concern big data computation with limited resources, including algorithms for modern parallel and distributed systems, sublinear-time algorithms, and streaming. During his time at IBM Research, he has participated in a broad range of cross-disciplinary applied projects.
Krzysztof received his master’s degree from the University of Warsaw and his PhD from the Massachusetts Institute of Technology. Before joining IBM, he was a Simons postdoctoral fellow at Carnegie Mellon University.