Prior to founding Keebo, Barzan was an Associate Professor of Computer Science at the University of Michigan, Ann Arbor. He has spent the last 15 years of his career conducting award-winning research at the intersection of machine learning and database systems, across the University of Michigan, MIT, UCLA and several companies that have commercialized his research.

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