Gali Sheffi

About

My research interests are concurrent computing and algorithms (mostly on memory management). I am also interested in all aspects of parallelism, data structures, approximation algorithms, and distributed computing.

Experience

• Software Engineer at Google
  Jan 2025 - Present · 1 yr 6 mos

  Cloud Networking team

• Research Scientist at Pliops
  Jan 2023 - Dec 2024 · 2 yrs

  Storage Engines team

• Summer Intern at IBM
  Jul 2022 - Oct 2022 · 4 mos

  Hybrid Cloud Infrastructure team

• Teaching Assistant at Technion - Israel Institute of Technology
  Nov 2018 - Oct 2022 · 4 yrs

  Logic for Computer Science (teacher assistant in charge) Winter 2019/20 - Spring 2022 Logic for Computer Science Spring 2019 Automata and Formal Languages Winter 2018/19 - Spring 2019

• Research Engineer at Yahoo! Inc.
  Apr 2017 - Nov 2018 · 1 yr 8 mos

  Scalable Systems team. Publications: (1) Edward Bortnikov, Anastasia Braginsky, Eshcar Hillel, Idit Keidar, Gali Sheffi: Accordion: Better Memory Organization for LSM Key-Value Stores. PVLDB 11(12): 1863- 1875 (2018). (2) Hagar Meir, Anastasia Braginsky, Dmitry Basin, Edward Bortnikov, Yonatan Gottesman, Eshcar Hillel, Idit Keidar, Eran Meir, Gali Sheffi, Yoav Zuriel: Oak: A Scalable Off-Heap Allocated Key-Value Map. PPoPP (Principles and Practice of Parallel Programing) 2020, San Diego, California, United States. Patents: (1) Edward Bortnikov, David Carmel, Gali Sheffi, Idit Keidar, Dmitry Basin: System and Method for Top-K Searching Using Parallel Processing. 2019 (2) Edward Bortnikov, Ohad Shacham, Gali Sheffi, Dmitry Basin, Yonatan Gottesman: Systems, Devices, and methods for Content Indexing and Querying in a Search System. 2019