Notable students Samuel Madden Fields Computer Science | Role Professor Name Joseph Hellerstein | |
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Born 7 June 1968 (age 56) ( 1968-06-07 ) Alma mater Harvard University (B.S.)University of California, Berkeley (M.S.)University of Wisconsin–Madison (PhD) Books Architecture of a Database System, Foundations and Trends: Architecture of a Database System Similar People Michael Stonebraker, Samuel Madden, Jeffrey Naughton, Jeffrey Michael Heer | ||
Joe Hellerstein interviewed at Strata 2011
Joseph M. Hellerstein (born (1968-06-07)7 June 1968) is professor of Computer Science at the University of California, Berkeley, where he works on database systems and computer networks. He co-founded Trifacta with Jeffrey Heer and Sean Kandel in 2012, which stemmed from their research project, Wrangler.
Contents
- Joe Hellerstein interviewed at Strata 2011
- Joe Hellerstein interviewed at Strata 2013
- Education
- PhD Studies and Research
- Awards and recognition
- References
Joe Hellerstein interviewed at Strata 2013
Education
Hellerstein attended Harvard University from 1986-1990 and pursued his masters in Computer Science at University of California Berkeley from 1991-1992.
Ph.D Studies and Research
He received his PhD from the University of Wisconsin, Madison in 1995, for a thesis on query optimization supervised by Jeffrey Naughton and Michael Stonebraker. He has made seminal contributions to many areas of database systems, such as ad-hoc sensor networks, adaptive query processing, approximate query processing and online aggregation, declarative networking, and data stream processing.
Awards and recognition
His work has been recognized via awards including an Alfred P. Sloan Fellowship, MIT Technology Review's inaugural TR100 list and TR10 list, Fortune 50 smartest in Tech, and three ACM-SIGMOD "Test of Time" awards. He is a Fellow of the Association for Computing Machinery (2009). Key ideas from his research have been incorporated into commercial and open-source database software released by IBM, Oracle Corporation, and PostgreSQL. He has also held industrial posts including Director of Intel Research Labs, and Chief Scientist of Cohera Corporation.