Michael Franklin
Morton D. Hull Distinguished Service Professor Of Computer Science at HPA
Greater Chicago Area United States
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Top SchoolMichael Franklin is a distinguished computer scientist and entrepreneur with 35+ years specializing in databases, distributed data management, and real-time analytics. As Morton D. Hull Distinguished Service Professor at the University of Chicago and former Director of Berkeley’s AMPLab, he co-created technologies leading to Apache Spark and pioneered stream-relational processing through his startup Truviso (acquired by Cisco). He blends deep academic research with hands-on product and startup leadership, advising Databricks and several data-focused ventures while shaping campus-wide data science strategy. Known for systems that pushed the limits of low-latency and high-throughput processing long before “Big Data” became a buzzword, he brings rare historical perspective on scalable architectures dating back to MPP and early sensor-network work.
12 years of coding experience
32 years of employment as a software developer
Ph.D. Computer Science, Ph.D. Computer Science at University of Wisconsin-MadisonM.S.E. Software Engineering, M.S.E. Software Engineering at Wang Institute of Graduate StudiesB.S. Computer Science, B.S. Computer Science at University of Massachusetts Amherst
Github Skills (4)
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Github contributions (1)
amplab/datascience-sp14
Feb 2014 - Apr 2014
Contributions:27 commits in 2 months
springsciencemachine-learningdata-science
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