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Natacha Crooks
Natacha Crooks
Research Areas
Database Management Systems (DBMS)
Operating Systems & Networking (OSNT)
Research Centers
Berkeley Center for Responsible, Decentralized Intelligence (RDI) (RDI)
Sky Computing Lab (Sky)
Teaching Schedule
Fall 2025
CS 294-282. Research Culture and Community Norms
, Tu 12:30-13:59, Wheeler 130
Education
2019, Ph.D., Distributed Systems, University of Texas
2012, BA, Computer Science and Law, University of Cambridge
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Sloan Research Fellow
, 2025
IEEE CS TCDE Early Career/Rising Star Award
, 2024
Okawa Research Grant
, 2023
VMware Early Career Faculty Award
, 2022
ACM SIGOPS Dennis M. Ritchie Doctoral Dissertation Award
, 2020
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ncrooks@berkeley.edu
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Frankie Vasquez
fvasquez@berkeley.edu
