Dr. Eli Cortez is a Principal Engineering Manager at Microsoft - Azure Core, where he is leading a team of engineers working on machine learning and data mining technologies to support Cloud Infrastructure. He received his Ph.D. in Computer Science from Federal University of Amazonas in Brazil. His research areas include distributed systems, datacenter efficiency, machine learning and data mining. He has published papers in top conferences including SOSP, SIGMOD, VLDB, WWW, and ICDE.