Michael J. Franklin – Background Info

Education:

•  Ph.D., Computer Sciences, University of Wisconsin, Madison, 1993
          Advisor: Mike Carey, with help from Miron Livny and David DeWitt
          Thesis: Caching and Memory Management in Client-Server Database Systems
              (an extended version was published as a monograph in 1996)
•  M.S.E., Wang Institute of Graduate Studies, 1986,
•  B.S., Computer and Information Science, Univ. of Massachusetts, Amherst, 1983

Current Affiliations:

• UC Berkeley, EECS Computer Science, Professor (1999-present)
  (Vice Chair for Graduate Matters 2004-2006; Associate Professor 1999-2004)
• Truviso, Inc. (formerly, Amalgamated Insight), Foster City, CA, Founder and CTO (2005-present)

Previous Positions:

• Intel Research Berkeley, Visiting Faculty Researcher (2004-2005)
• The Mayfield Fund,  Executive-in-Residence (2003)
• PRiSM Laboratory, University of Versailles, Visiting Professor (2003)
• Hong Kong University of Science and Technology Visiting Professor (2003)
• University of Maryland, College Park
• 1999-2001: Associate Professor
• 1993-1999: Assistant Professor
• INRIA, Rocquencourt, France, Visiting Professor (Summers 1994-1997)
• University of Wisconsin-Madison, Research Assistant (1989-1993)
• Microelectronics and Computer Technology Corp (MCC), Austin, TX, Member Technical Staff (1986-1989)
• Wang Laboratories, Lowell, MA, Software Engineer, Database Systems (1983-1985).
• Consultant for: The Mayfield Fund, Hewlett-Packard, Sequoia Capital, Bell Laboratories, IBM, Telcordia, Panasonic Technologies.
• Advisory Boards: Appstream, Inc. (acquired by Symantec), Business Signatures, Inc., (acquired by EnTrust, Inc.), DATAllegro, Inc. (acquired by Microsoft), Propel, Inc., RightOrder, Inc., WiseNut Inc. (acquired by LookSmart Ltd.).

Awards and Fellowships

• 2009 Outstanding Alumni Achievement Award, CS Dept. University of Massachusetts, Amherst
• 2009 Google Faculty Research Grant
• 2007 Best Paper Award, ICDCS
• ACM Fellow (named in 2005)
• 2004 ACM SIGMOD “Test of Time” Award
• Papers invited for “Best of” special issues: VLDB 2006 & 2002, SIGMOD 2003, MDM 2003, IEEE RIDE 2002.
• 2003, 2002, 1999 IBM Faculty Partnership Award
• 2002 ACM Service Award, for PC Chair of SIGMOD 2002
• 2000 Okawa Foundation Research Grant
• 2000 Siemens Faculty Development Award
• 1995 National Science Foundation CAREER Award
• 1994 Faculty Teaching Excellence Award, University of Maryland
• 1994 National Science Foundation Research Initiation Award
• 1993 Outstanding Graduate Student Research Award, Univ. of Wisconsin, Madison

Keynotes and Featured Talks

• 2009 UC Berkeley Graduate School of Journalism Media Technology Summit, Mountain View, CA.
• 2009 British National Conference on Databases (BNCOD), Birmingham, UK.
• 2009 New England Database Day, MIT, Cambridge, MA.
• 2009 Distinguished Lecture Series, Computer Science Dept., UC Irvine.
• 2008 Real-Time 2008, Industry Panel, San Francisco, CA.
• 2008 MICS Scientific Conference, Zurich, Switzerland.
• 2007 HPDC: 15th IEEE International Symposium on High Performance Distributed Computing, Monterey, CA.
• 2007 National Research Council, Workshop on State Voter Registration Databases, Washington, DC
• 2007 DaMon/ExpDB Workshop (at SIGMOD 07), Beijing.
• 2006 Distinguished Lecture Series, University of Pittsburgh.
• 2006 DMSN: 3^rd International Workshop on Data Management in Sensor Networks, Seoul.
• 2006 Dow Jones Enterprise Ventures Conference, San Jose, CA.
• 2005 COMAD (Indian National Database Conference), Hyderabad.
• 2005 ICME: IEEE International Conference on Multimedia and Expo, Amsterdam.
• 2005 MobiDE: 4^th ACM Workshop on Data Engineering for Wireless and Mobile Access, Baltimore.
• 2005 NetDB: 1^st International Workshop on Networks Meets Databases, Tokyo.
• 2003 XSym: 1^st International XML Database Symposium, Berlin.
• 2003 PODC: ACM Symposium on Principles of Distributed Computing, Boston
• 2000 Aether Systems Distinguished Lecture Series, Univ of MD, Baltimore County
• 2000 Dagshtul 10^th Anniversary Conference, Saarbrueken, Germany
• 1999 MDM: 1^st International Conference on Mobile Data Management, Hong Kong
• 1998 International Conf. on Advanced Multimedia Content Processing, Osaka University
• 1997 EC/US Workshop on Data Persistence, Kinloch Rannoch, Scotland

Research Community

• Treasurer and Board of Trustees – VLDB Endowment (current); Scientific Advisory Board – MICS Project, Switzerland (current)

Executive Committee – ACM SIGMOD (past)

• Editorial Boards - Current: ACM Journal on Data Quality, Distributed and Parallel Databases;
  Editorial Boards - Past: ACM Transactions on Database Systems, ACM Computing Surveys, VLDB Journal, ACM SIGMOD Record (Editor-in-Chief).
• Conference Organization: SIGMOD 2009 (Industrial PC Co-Chair) Providence, RI., CIDR 2009 (Conference Co-Chair) Asilomar, CA., ICDE 2005 (PC co-chair), Tokyo; SIGMOD 2002 (PC Chair), Madison, WI; Mobile Data Management (MDM) 2001 (PC Chair), Hong Kong.