Michael Franklin

Michael Franklin is the Liew Family Chair of Computer Science and a Sr. Advisor to the Provost for Computation and Data at the University of Chicago.   He joined U. Chicago in summer 2016 to help implement a major expansion of the Computer Science Department and to initiate a cross-campus effort in Data Science.  He is also an Adjunct faculty member at UC Berkeley, where he was the Thomas M. Siebel Professor of Computer Science and former Chair of the Computer Science Division.   Prof. Franklin is currently serving as PI of the Algorithms, Machines, and People Laboratory (AMPLab) expedition.  In addition to its status as a NSF CISE Expeditions project, AMPLab works with dozens of industrial sponsors including founding sponsors Amazon Web Services, Google, IBM, and SAP.  Prof. Franklin is a PI of the NSF Western Region Big Data Innovation Hub and was formerly a co-PI and Executive Committee member for the Berkeley Institute for Data Science, part of the Moore and Sloan Foundations’ initiative to advance Data Science Environments.  He is an ACM Fellow, a two-time winner of the ACM SIGMOD “Test of Time” award, has several recent “Best Paper” awards and two CACM Research Highlights selections, and is a recipient of the Outstanding Advisor Award from the Computer Science Graduate Student Association at Berkeley.