Michael J. Franklin
Michael J. Franklin | |
|---|---|
| Nationality | American |
| Citizenship | United States |
| Alma mater | University of Wisconsin-Madison (Ph.D.), Wang Institute of Graduate Studies (Master), University of Massachusetts Amherst (Bachelor) |
| Scientific career | |
| Fields | Computer Science |
| Institutions | University of Chicago University of California Berkeley |
| Thesis | Caching and memory management in client-server database systems (1993) |
| Doctoral advisor | Michael James Carey |
| Website | cs |
Michael Jay Franklin[1] is an American software entrepreneur and computer scientist specializing in distributed 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.
Franklin was the top cited scholar in the field of databases, according to the 2022 AI 2000[2] records.[3]
Biography[edit]
Before moving to Chicago in 2016,[4] he was Thomas M. Siebel Professor of Computer Science and chair of the Computer Science Division at University of California, Berkeley.[5] At Berkeley he was director of the Algorithms, Machines, and People Laboratory (AMPLab),[6] a collaboration of computing systems, data management, machine learning researchers focused on large-scale data analytics. Under his direction, AMPLab projects such as Spark and Mesos had wide industrial and academic impact.
Franklin received a bachelor's degree from the University of Massachusetts Amherst in 1983 and a master's degree from the Wang Institute of Graduate Studies in 1986.[7] He earned a Ph.D. from the University of Wisconsin–Madison in 1993 under with his thesis Caching and memory management in client-server database systems under Michael James Carey.[1]
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, a big data company commercializing the Spark research project.
Awards[edit]
- Elected to the American Academy of Arts and Sciences, 2023[8]
- AAAS Fellow, 2021[4]
- Inaugural University of Massachusetts Amherst CS Department Outstanding Achievement Award in Research, 2009[9]
- ACM Fellow, 2005, "for contributions to distributed information management."[10][11]
- SIGMOD Test of Time Award, 2004[12]
References[edit]
- ^ a b "Michael Franklin". The Mathematics Genealogy Project. Retrieved 5 December 2022.
- ^ Shao, Zhou; Shen, Zhenting; Yuan, Sha; Tang, Jie; Wang, Yongli; Wu, Lili; Zheng, Wenjiang (2020). "AI 2000: A Decade of Artificial Intelligence". 12th ACM Conference on Web Science. pp. 345–354. doi:10.1145/3394231.3397925. ISBN 9781450379892. S2CID 219980225. Retrieved 4 December 2022.
{{cite book}}:|journal=ignored (help) - ^ "Michael J. Franklin - AI Profile". www.aminer.org. Retrieved 2022-12-04.
- ^ a b "DSI faculty Co-Director Michael J. Franklin named AAAS Fellow". Data Science Institute. 26 January 2022. Retrieved 4 December 2022.
- ^ Michael Franklin's Berkeley listing
- ^ AMPLab at UC Berkeley
- ^ Michael J. Franklin – Background Info
- ^ "New members". American Academy of Arts and Sciences. 2023. Retrieved 2023-04-21.
- ^ First Annual Outstanding Achievement and Advocacy Awards
- ^ "Michael J Franklin". Awards Home. Association for Computing Machinery. Retrieved 5 December 2022.
- ^ ACM Fellow
- ^ SIGMOD 2004 Test of Time Award Archived 2008-09-18 at the Wayback Machine
External links[edit]
- Living people
- American computer scientists
- Database researchers
- 2005 Fellows of the Association for Computing Machinery
- Fellows of the American Academy of Arts and Sciences
- University of Chicago faculty
- University of Massachusetts Amherst alumni
- University of Wisconsin–Madison alumni
- UC Berkeley College of Engineering faculty
- American chief technology officers