Eric Sedlar is Senior Vice President & Technical Director of Oracle Labs. This position entails figuring out how to transfer research results from Labs research into Oracle products & services, as well as setting overall technical direction for new research projects in Oracle Labs. A few of the major research areas include:

• Compilers, language runtimes & frameworks: generally based on Graal technologies – see https://graal.cloud for details
• Application-Level and Cloud Operations Security
• Machine Learning, AI & Large Language Models
• Databases and large scale analytics
   

Eric manages over 250 fulltime researchers and developers working on over a dozen separate research areas. Eric's own research interests are in extensible database technologies, and in particular in integration of compiler technologies and database concepts.

Previously, he led the effort for XML & JSON-native storage inside Oracle. Eric has held various architecture and development management positions at Oracle since starting there in 1990. He holds over 68 patents, and has served on standards organizations for Oracle in the W3C and IETF. He co-authored the Best Paper at SIGMOD 2010 on architecture-sensitive search trees.