Michael Franklin

Michael Franklin is deputy dean for computational and mathematical sciences in the University of Chicago’s Physical Sciences Division and the Morton D. Hull Distinguished Service Professor of Computer Science. He helped establish the university’s Data Science Institute and serves as senior advisor to the provost for computation and data science. His research covers databases, analytics and distributed systems. Previously at Berkeley, he co-founded the AMPLab, whose open-source projects included Apache Spark.

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