Michael Franklin is the Thomas M. Siebel Professor of Computer Science and Chair of the Computer Science Division at the University of California, Berkeley. Professor Franklin is also the Director of the Algorithms, Machines, and People Laboratory (AMPLab) at UC Berkeley. The AMPLab currently works with and is supported by 28 leading information technology companies including founding sponsors Amazon Web Services, Google, and SAP. AMPLab is well-known for creating a number of key systems in the Open Source Big Data ecosystem including Spark, Mesos, GraphX and MLlib, all parts of the Berkeley Data Analytics Stack (BDAS). He was Founder and CTO of Truviso, a real-time analytics company acquired by Cisco in 2012. He works with and advises numerous technology start ups including Berkeley spinouts Databricks, Wise.io, and Tachyon Nexus.
Professor Franklin is a co-PI and Executive Committee member for the Berkeley Institute for Data Science, part of a multi-campus initiative to advance Data Science Environments. He is an ACM Fellow, a two-time winner of the ACM SIGMOD "Test of Time" award, has several recent "Best Paper" awards and two recent CACM Research Highlights selections, and is recipient of the outstanding Advisor Award from the Computer Science Graduate Student Association at Berkeley.