Dr. Maria Rodriguez is a Lecturer in the School of Computing and Information Systems. Her research interests lie in the field of distributed and parallel systems.

Her work has focused on the efficient orchestration of scientific applications in cloud environments and includes topics such as scheduling, resource provisioning, task runtime prediction, and performance anomaly detection. She has also built various frameworks that enable the practical application of her research. More recently, she has worked on investigating how containerized and cloud-native applications can be better supported by cloud providers to offer users advantages in terms of reduced cost and more scalable, robust, and flexible application deployment.