Vivek R. Narasayya

Vivek R. Narasayya is a Researcher at Microsoft Research, specializing in database systems, query optimization, index tuning, and scalable data management. His work focuses on improving the efficiency of relational databases through machine learning, resource allocation, and performance isolation techniques in multi-tenant environments.

• Primary Affiliation: Microsoft Research

Research Interests

• Database Systems
• Query Optimization
• Index Tuning
• Data Cleaning
• Scalable Data Management
• Machine Learning in Databases

Recent Article Trends emphasize workload-driven index tuning, budget-aware optimization, and performance isolation in cloud databases. Key subfields include reinforcement learning for index selection, multi-vector search, cache-efficient aggregation, and resource allocation in database-as-a-service clusters.