About
Johannes Gehrke is a Technical Fellow in E+D where he is leading architecture and machine learning for the Intelligent Communications and Conversations Cloud. Johannes’ research interests are in the areas of database systems, distributed systems, and machine learning. He has received a National Science Foundation Career Award, an Arthur P. Sloan Fellowship, a Humboldt Research Award, the 2011 IEEE Computer Society Technical Achievement Award, and he is an ACM Fellow. Johannes co-authored the undergraduate textbook Database Management Systems (McGrawHill (2002), currently in its third edition), used at universities all over the world. He is a member of the ACM SIGKDD Executive Committee. From 1999 to 2015, Johannes was on the faculty in the Department of Computer Science at Cornell University, and from 2007 to 2008, he was Chief Scientist at FAST Search and Transfer.
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Making the future of work work for you with Dr. Johannes Gehrke
Episode 83, July 17, 2019- Dr. Johannes Gehrke is a Microsoft Technical Fellow and head of Architecture and Machine Learning for the Intelligent Communications and Conversations Cloud in Microsoft’s Experiences and Devices division. But lest you think his lofty position makes him in any way superior to you, let me tell you, he knows who works for whom, and he’ll be the first to tell you that you are his boss! On today’s podcast, Dr. Gehrke frames the new, cloud-powered work world as a fast paced, widely-distributed workplace that demands real-time decision-making and collaboration – and explains how products like Microsoft Teams are meeting those demands – and tells us, both directly and indirectly, about the future of work, which for Microsoft, involves a pivot from an app-centric approach to a people-centric approach where, by using an AI-infused productivity suite coupled with the power of the cloud, we can essentially “hire Microsoft” to help us get our work done.
Database Management Systems
Database Management Systems has quickly become one of the leading texts for database courses, known for its practical emphasis and comprehensive coverage. The third edition features new material on database application development, with a focus on Internet applications. The hands-on…
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- 2011 Blavatnik Award for Young Scientists, Faculty Winner. (Cornell Chronicle article | press release)
- The 2011 ACM SIGMOD Conference, Best Paper Award.
- IEEE Computer Society Technical Achievement Award, 2011.
- Humboldt Research Award, Alexander von Humboldt Foundation, 2010.
- New York State Foundation for Science, Technology, and Innovation, Faculty Development Grant, 2007. (Press release.)
- Cornell University Provost’s Award for Distinguished Scholarship, 2004. (Cornell Chronicle article.)
- Alfred P. Sloan Research Fellowship, 2003. (Cornell Chronicle article.)
- National Science Foundation CAREER Award, 2002. (Cornell Chronicle article.)
- Cornell College of Engineering James and Mary Tien Excellence in Teaching Award, 2001.
- IBM Faculty Development Award 2000 and 2001.
Cornell Group Alumni
- Gabriel Bender (Ph.D., August 2014). First employment: Google.
- Philippe Bonnet (Research Associate, 1999-2001). First employment: Associate Professor, Department of Computer Science, University of Copenhagen; now Associate Professor at IT University of Copenhagen.
- Zhiyuan Chen (Ph.D., August 2002; co-advised with Praveen Seshadri). First employment: Microsoft Research, now Associate Professor, Information Systems Department, University of Maryland Baltimore County.
- Tuan Cao (Ph.D., May 2013). First employment: Google.
- Adina Crăiniceanu (Ph.D., December 2005). First employment: Assistant Professor, United States Naval Academy.
- Abhinandan Das (Ph.D., August 2005). First employment: Google.
- Bailu Ding (Ph.D., August 2015). First employment: Microsoft.
- Alin Dobra (Ph.D., July 2003). First employment: Assistant Professor, Department of Computer and Information Science and Engineering, University of Florida. Now Associate Professor, University of Florida.
- Alexandre Evfimievski (Ph.D., August 2004). First employment: IBM Almaden Research Center.
- Michaela Götz (Ph.D., January 2012). First employment: Twitter.
- Nitin Gupta (Ph.D., December 2011). First employment: Google.
- Michael Hay (Computing Innovations Fellow, August 2010 to August 2012). First employment: Assistant Professor, Colgate University.
- Mingsheng Hong (Ph.D., November 2008; co-advised with Alan Demers, Mirek Riedewald, and Walker White). First employment: Vertica.
- Dan Kifer (Ph.D., August 2006 and postdoc September 2006 to August 2007). First employment: Yahoo! Research; now Assistant Professor, Department of Computer Science and Engineering, Penn State University.
- Prakash Linga (Ph.D., June 2007, co-advised with Jayavel Shanmugasundaram). First employment: Moka5.
- Yin Lou (Ph.D., May 2014). First employment: LinkedIn.
- Ashwin Machanavajjhala (Ph.D., August 2008). First employment: Yahoo! Research; now Assistant Professor, Department of Computer Science, Duke University.
- David Martin (Ph.D., August 2008; co-advised with Joe Halpern). First employment: Google.
- Tobias Mayr (Ph.D., August 2001; co-advised with Praveen Seshadri). First employment: IBM Almaden Research Center.
- Biswanath Panda (Ph.D., February 2009; co-advised with Mirek Riedewald). First employment: Google.
- Mirek Riedewald (Research Associate, 2002-2008). First employment: Associate Professor, Department of Computer Science, Northeastern University.
- Ben Sowell (Ph.D., May 2012; co-advised with Alan Demers). First employment: Nou Data.
- Niki Trigoni (postdoc, November 2002 to July 2004). First employment: Lecturer, School of Computer Science and Information Systems, Birkbeck, University of London. Now University Lecturer, Department of Computer Science, University of Oxford.
- Sudip Roy (Ph.D., August 2014). First employment: Google.
- Marcos Vaz Salles (postdoc, December 2008 to July 2011). First employment: Assistant Professor, Department of Computer Science, University of Copenhagen.
- Guozhang Wang (PhD., August 2012). First employment: LinkedIn.
- Felix Weigel (postdoc, January 2007 to February 2009). First employment: Nokia; now at Google.
- Xiaokui Xiao (postdoc, August 2008 to July 2009). First employment: Assistant Professor, Division of Information Systems, Nanyang Technological University.
- Wenlei Xie (Ph.D., May 2015). First employment: LinkedIn.
- Fan Yang (Ph.D., July 2008; co-advised with Jayavel Shanmugasundaram). First employment: Google.
- Yong Yao (Ph.D., January 2007; co-advised with Alan Demers). First employment: IBM Silicon Valley Lab; now at Google.
- Tao Zou (Ph.D., August 2014). First employment: Google.
