Michael Franklin is a Professor of Computer Science at UC Berkeley
focusing on new approaches for data management and data analysis. His
recent projects have spanned systems ranging from dynamic networks of
tiny wireless sensor devices to large-scale scientific grid computing
and cloud computing infrastructures. He is a co-founder and CTO of
Truviso, Inc. a real-time data analytics company that enables
customers to quickly make sense of diverse, high-speed, continuous
streams of information. He is a Fellow of the Association for
Computing Machinery, and a recipient of the National Science
Foundation CAREER award and the ACM SIGMOD "Test of Time" award. He
received his Ph.D. from the University of Wisconsin-Madison (1993) and
his M.S.E. from the innovative but short-lived Wang Institute of
Graduate Studies (1986) and a B.S. from the University of
Massachusetts, Amherst (1983).