Christopher Olston is a principal research scientist at Yahoo! Research, focusing on data management and web search problems. Olston won the 2009 SIGMOD Best Paper Award, and co-created Apache Pig, which is now widely adopted at Yahoo, LinkedIn, Twitter and other companies, and has been incorporated into Amazon's EC2 Elastic Map-Reduce offering. Olston is occasionally seen behaving as a professor, and has taught undergrad and grad courses at Berkeley, Carnegie Mellon and Stanford. He received his Ph.D. in 2003 from Stanford under fellowships from the university and the National Science Foundation. His Bachelor's degree is from Berkeley with highest honors. Olston is an avid Cal fan but likes to rollerblade at Stanford.