Johannes Gehrke
Johannes Gehrke is a German Computer Scientist and the Director of Microsoft Research in Redmond. He is an ACM Fellow, an IEEE Fellow, and the recipient of the 2011 IEEE Computer Society Technical Achievement Award. From 1999 to 2015, he was a faculty member in the at Cornell University, where at the time of his leaving he was the Tisch University Professor of Computer Science.
Gehrke is best known for his contributions to database systems, data mining, and data privacy. He developed some of the fastest data mining algorithms for frequent pattern mining, sequential pattern mining, and decision tree construction, one of the first sensor network query processors which pioneered in-network query processing for wireless sensor networks, and his work on data privacy, which resulted in the very first public data product published by any official government agency in the world with provable privacy guarantees.Education
Johannes Gehrke studied from 1990 to 1993 computer science at the Karlsruhe Institute of Technology, received an M.S. degree from the Department of Computer Science at the University of Texas at Austin in 1995, and his PhD from the University of Wisconsin, Madison in 1999 for a thesis in data mining.Career
From 1999 to 2015, Gehrke was a professor in the Department of Computer Science at Cornell University. His research group was popularly known as the Big Red Data Group. Gehrke was also Chief Scientist at Fast Search and Transfer.
Gehrke received a National Science Foundation Career Award, a Sloan Research Fellowship, and a Humboldt Research Award. In 2011, he received the IEEE Computer Society Technical Achievement Award and a Blavatnik Award for Young Scientists. In 2014, he became a Fellow of the Association for Computing Machinery, and in 2020 he was elected an IEEE Fellow..Books
Since its second edition, Gehrke has been a co-author of one of the main textbooks on database systems, commonly known as the Cow Book.
