Samuel Madden (computer scientist)
American computer scientist (born 1976)
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Samuel R. Madden (born August 4, 1976) is an American computer scientist specializing in database management systems. He is a professor of computer science at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology. Since 2024, he has been the head of computer science in the EECS department at MIT.[6]
UC Berkeley (PhD, 2003)[2]
Samuel Madden | |
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| Born | August 4, 1976 San Diego, California, U.S. |
| Education | Massachusetts Institute of Technology (B.S. and M.Eng., 1999)[1] UC Berkeley (PhD, 2003)[2] |
| Known for | Cambridge Mobile Telematics,[3] C-Store, Vertica, TinyDB,[4] TelegraphCQ,[5] H-Store |
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| Fields | Computer Science |
| Institutions | Massachusetts Institute of Technology |
| Doctoral advisor | Michael J. Franklin and Joseph M. Hellerstein |
| Doctoral students | Daniel Abadi |
| Website | db |
Career
Madden was born and raised in San Diego, California. After completing bachelor's and master's degrees at MIT, he earned a PhD in database management at the University of California Berkeley under Michael Franklin and Joseph M. Hellerstein. Before joining MIT as a tenure-track professor, Madden held a post-doc position at Intel's Berkeley Research center.[7][8][9][10]
Madden has been involved in several database research projects, including TinyDB,[4] TelegraphCQ,[5] Aurora/Borealis, C-Store, and H-Store. In recent years, his group has focused on declarative and agent-driven data systems for managing and optimizing AI-powered analytical workloads.[11] He has published more than 250 scholarly articles, with more than 70,000 citations and an h-index above 110.[12]
Madden is a co-founder of Cambridge Mobile Telematics[3] and Vertica Systems. Before enrolling at MIT and while an undergraduate student there, Madden wrote printer driver software for Palomar Software, a San Diego-area Macintosh software company. He is also a Technology Expert at Omega Venture Partners.[13][14]
In 2024, he was appointed the faculty head of computer science at MIT.[6]
Awards and recognitions
Madden won a National Science Foundation CAREER Award in 2004 and a Sloan Research Fellowship in 2007.[15][16]
He received VLDB's best paper award in 2007 and VLDB's test of time award in 2015 for his 2005 paper on C-Store.[17][18]
He also received a test of time award in SIGMOD 2013 for his 2003 paper The Design of an Acquisitional Query Processor for Sensor Networks.[19]
In 2020 he was named a fellow of the Association for Computing Machinery.[20]
He received the 2024 SIGMOD Edgar F. Codd Innovations Award for his contributions to multiple aspects of data management, including column-oriented database systems, high performance transaction processing, and systems for mobile and sensor data.[21]
