Frank McSherry explained

Frank McSherry is a computer scientist. McSherry's areas of research include distributed computing and information privacy.

McSherry is known, along with Cynthia Dwork, Adam D. Smith, and Kobbi Nissim, as one of the co-inventors of differential privacy, for which he won the 2017 Gödel Prize.[1] Along with Kunal Talwar, he is the co-creator of the exponential mechanism for differential privacy,[2] for which they won the 2009 PET Award for Outstanding Research in Privacy Enhancing Technologies.[3]

McSherry has also made notable contributions to stream processing systems.[4] In 2019, he founded a startup company for streaming databases called Materialize,[5] [6] where he is currently chief scientist.[7]

Notes and References

  1. Web site: 2017 Gödel Prize. Efi. Chita. Eatcs.org. 19 Oct 2020.
  2. http://research.microsoft.com/pubs/65075/mdviadp.pdf F.McSherry and K.Talwar. Mechanism Design via Differential Privacy. Proceedings of the 48th Annual Symposium of Foundations of Computer Science, 2007.
  3. Web site: Past Winners of the PET Award .
  4. Book: Murray. Derek G.. McSherry. Frank. Isaacs. Rebecca. Isard. Michael. Barham. Paul. Abadi. Martín. Proceedings of the Twenty-Fourth ACM Symposium on Operating Systems Principles . Naiad . 2013-11-03. SOSP '13. New York, NY, USA. Association for Computing Machinery. 439–455. 10.1145/2517349.2522738. 978-1-4503-2388-8. 14796003 . free.
  5. Web site: 2021-09-30. Streaming database platform provider Materialize lands $60M. 2021-12-05. VentureBeat. en-US.
  6. Web site: Materialize scores $40 million investment for SQL streaming database. 2021-12-05. TechCrunch. en-US.
  7. Web site: About. 2021-12-05. Materialize. en-US.