Portrait of Ishai Menache

Ishai Menache

Partner Research Manager

About

I lead the CORE group (opens in new tab) in MSR Redmond. I work in the intersection of optimization, ML and systems. I completed my Ph.D. at the Technion (opens in new tab), and spent a couple of years at MIT (opens in new tab) as a postdoc associate.

Areas of interest:

  • Large-scale optimization
  • Machine learning – algorithm design and applications
  • Cloud resource management

Current projects:

  • OptiGuide – Interactive optimization with LLMs
  • Cloud efficiency optimization

Recent PCs:

SPAA’16 (opens in new tab), EuroSys’17 (opens in new tab), NETGCOOP’18 (opens in new tab) (chair), ASPLOS’19 (opens in new tab) (ERC), ICML’19 (opens in new tab), NeurIPS’19 (opens in new tab), APOCS’21, (opens in new tab)EuroSys’24 (opens in new tab)