Michael Jay Franklin is an American software entrepreneur and

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specializing in

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and streaming database technology. He is Liew Family Chair of Computer Science and chairman for the Department of Computer Science at the

University of Chicago The University of Chicago (UChicago, Chicago, or UChi) is a Private university, private research university in Chicago, Illinois, United States. Its main campus is in the Hyde Park, Chicago, Hyde Park neighborhood on Chicago's South Side, Chic ...

. Franklin was the top cited scholar in the field of databases, according to the 2022 AI 2000 records.

Biography

Before moving to Chicago in 2016, he was Thomas M. Siebel Professor of Computer Science and chair of the Computer Science Division at

University of California, Berkeley The University of California, Berkeley (UC Berkeley, Berkeley, Cal, or California), is a Public university, public Land-grant university, land-grant research university in Berkeley, California, United States. Founded in 1868 and named after t ...

. At Berkeley he was director of the Algorithms, Machines, and People Laboratory (AMPLab), a collaboration of computing systems, data management, machine learning researchers focused on large-scale data analytics. Under his direction, AMPLab projects such as

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and Mesos had wide industrial and academic impact. Franklin received a

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from the

University of Massachusetts Amherst The University of Massachusetts Amherst (UMass Amherst) is a public land-grant research university in Amherst, Massachusetts, United States. It is the flagship campus of the University of Massachusetts system and was founded in 1863 as the ...

in 1983 and a

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from the Wang Institute of Graduate Studies in 1986. He earned a

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from the

University of Wisconsin–Madison The University of Wisconsin–Madison (University of Wisconsin, Wisconsin, UW, UW–Madison, or simply Madison) is a public land-grant research university in Madison, Wisconsin, United States. It was founded in 1848 when Wisconsin achieved st ...

in 1993 under with his thesis ''Caching and memory management in client-server database systems'' under Michael James Carey. He was also a cofounder as well as CTO of Truviso, a company specializing in streaming databases which was acquired by Cisco in May 2012. He is also an advisor to

Databricks Databricks, Inc. is a global data, analytics, and artificial intelligence (AI) company, founded in 2013 by the original creators of Apache Spark. The company provides a cloud-based platform to help enterprises build, scale, and govern data an ...

, a

big data Big data primarily refers to data sets that are too large or complex to be dealt with by traditional data processing, data-processing application software, software. Data with many entries (rows) offer greater statistical power, while data with ...

company commercializing the

research project.

Awards

*Elected to the

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, 2023 *

AAAS Fellow Fellowship of the American Association for the Advancement of Science (FAAAS) is an honor accorded by the American Association for the Advancement of Science (AAAS) to distinguished persons who are members of the Association. Fellows are elected ...

, 2021 *Inaugural

CS Department Outstanding Achievement Award in Research, 2009 *

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, 2005, "for contributions to distributed information management." *SIGMOD Test of Time Award, 2004SIGMOD 2004 Test of Time Award

References

External links

Michael Franklin's web page and biography
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