Elected to the American Academy of Arts and Sciences in 2024; received the SIGMOD Edgar F. Codd Innovations Award in 2022; became an ACM Fellow in 2011; has won several paper awards; received the NSF Career Award in 2001; was an Alfred P. Sloan Fellow from 2001-2002.
Research Experience
Teaches and conducts research in the area of databases at the Department of Computer Science & Engineering, University of Washington.
Background
Microsoft Endowed Professor in Computer Science and Engineering at the University of Washington, teaching databases and conducting research in data management, applying formal theory to novel and difficult data management tasks. Worked on semistructured data, probabilistic databases, parallel query evaluation on a cluster, causal reasoning in databases, information theory for cardinality estimation, and recursive queries.
Miscellany
Erdos number is 2; personal interests or hobbies not mentioned.