Oana Balmau is an Assistant Professor in the School of Computer Science at McGill University, where she leads the Data-Intensive Storage and Computer Systems Lab (DISCS Lab). Her research focuses on storage systems and data management, with an emphasis on Machine Learning, Data Science, and Edge Computing workloads. She completed her PhD in Computer Science at the University of Sydney, advised by Prof. Willy Zwaenepoel. Before her PhD, Oana earned her Bachelors and Masters degrees in Computer Science from EPFL, Switzerland. Oana won the CORE John Makepeace Bennet Award 2021 for the best computer science dissertation in Australia and New Zealand, an Honorable Mention for the ACM SIGOPS Dennis M. Ritchie Doctoral Dissertation Award 2021, as well as a Best Paper Award in the USENIX Annual Technical Conference (USENIX ATC) 2019. Before joining McGill, Oana worked with Nutanix, ABB Research, and HP Vertica. She is also a part of MLCommons, an open engineering consortium that aims to accelerate machine learning innovation, where she is leading the effort for storage benchmarking.