Philip A. Bernstein is a

computer scientist A computer scientist is a scientist who specializes in the academic study of computer science. Computer scientists typically work on the theoretical side of computation. Although computer scientists can also focus their work and research on ...

specializing in

database In computing, a database is an organized collection of data or a type of data store based on the use of a database management system (DBMS), the software that interacts with end users, applications, and the database itself to capture and a ...

research in the Database Group of

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. Bernstein is also an affiliate professor at the

University of Washington The University of Washington (UW and informally U-Dub or U Dub) is a public research university in Seattle, Washington, United States. Founded in 1861, the University of Washington is one of the oldest universities on the West Coast of the Uni ...

and frequent committee member or chair of conferences such as VLDB and SIGMOD. He won the SIGMOD Edgar F. Codd Innovations Award in 1994,1994 SIGMOD Edgar F. Codd Innovations Award
and in 2011 with Jayant Madhavan and Erhard Rahm the VLDB 10 Year Best Paper Award for their VLDB 2001 paper "Generic Schema Matching with Cupid". Bernstein was elected a member of the

National Academy of Engineering The National Academy of Engineering (NAE) is an American Nonprofit organization, nonprofit, NGO, non-governmental organization. It is part of the National Academies of Sciences, Engineering, and Medicine (NASEM), along with the National Academ ...

for contributions to transaction-processing and database systems. He is also an elected Fellow of the Association for Computing Machinery.ACM Fellows

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. Accessed June 2011. Election citation: "For pioneering work in distributed query optimization, distributed databases, distributed transaction processing, metadata management, and schema integration." He is a charter member of the Washington State Academy of Sciences (2008) and served on their board of directors from 2012 to 2018.

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External links

Phil Bernstein MSR page

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