Samuel Madden is an associate professor of electrical engineering and
computer science in MIT's Computer Science and Artificial Intelligence
Laboratory. His research interests include databases, sensor networks,
and mobile computing. Research projects include the C-Store column-
oriented database system, and the CarTel mobile sensor network system.
He received his Ph.D. from the University of California at Berkeley in
2003 where he worked on the TinyDB system for data collection from
sensor networks. Madden was named one of Technology Review's Top 35
Under 35 in 2005, and is the recipient of several awards, including an
NSF CAREER Award in 2004, a Sloan Foundation Fellowship in 2007, best
paper awards in VLDB 2004 and 2007, and a best paper award in MobiCom
2006.