| Mike Cafarella | |
| Birth Place: | Poughkeepsie, New York |
| Field: | Computer Science |
| Work Institution: | Massachusetts Institute of Technology University of Michigan |
| Alma Mater: | University of Washington, University of Edinburgh, Brown University |
| Doctoral Advisor: | Dan Suciu |
| Known For: | Hadoop, Nutch |
Mike Cafarella is a computer scientist specializing in database management systems. He is a principal research scientist of computer science at MIT Computer Science and Artificial Intelligence Laboratory.[1] Before coming to MIT, he was a professor of Computer Science and Engineering at the University of Michigan from 2009 to 2020. Along with Doug Cutting, he is one of the original co-founders of the Hadoop and Nutch open-source projects.[2] [3] Cafarella was born in New York City but moved to Westwood, MA early in his childhood. After completing his bachelor's degree at Brown University, he earned a Ph.D. specializing in database management systems at the University of Washington under Dan Suciu and Oren Etzioni.[4] He was also involved in several notable start-ups, including Tellme Networks,[5] and co-founder of Lattice Data, which was acquired by Apple in 2017.[6]