Dr. Ricardo Bianchini is a Distinguished Engineer at Microsoft, where he leads the team responsible for managing Azure's computing capacity and datacenter infrastructure with a strong emphasis on efficiency and sustainability. Before joining Azure in 2022, he led the Systems Research Group and the Cloud Efficiency team at Microsoft Research. During that time, he collaborated closely with Azure to create and deploy Resource Central, an ML and prediction-serving system that provides intelligence to other Azure components. He is an ACM Fellow and an IEEE Fellow.

Abstract: In this talk, I will describe our vision, experience, and latest advances in ML for Systems in Azure. Among other topics, I will discuss our latest research and production experience in infusing ML into cloud platforms and services.