Almaden Institute

Moderator - Working Group: Current Technical Directions and Outlook   Johannes Gehrke - Bio  Johannes Gehrke  Assistant Professor, Computer Science Department  Cornell University  johannes@cs.cornell.edu  Web Sites  www.cs.cornell.edu/johannes Biography Johannes Gehrke is an Assistant Professor in the Department of Computer Science at Cornell University. He obtained his Ph.D. in computer science from the University of Wisconsin-Madison in 1999; his graduate studies were supported by a Fulbright fellowship and an IBM fellowship. Johannes' research interests are in the areas of data mining, data stream processing, and distributed data management for sensor networks and peer-to-peer networks. Johannes has received a National Science Foundation Career Award, an Arthur P. Sloan Fellowship, an IBM Faculty Award, and the Cornell College of Engineering James and Mary Tien Excellence in Teaching Award. He is the author of numerous publications on data mining and database systems, and he co-authored the undergraduate textbook "Database Management Systems" (McGrawHill (2002), currently in its third edition), used at universities all over the world. Johannes has served as Program co-Chair of the 2001 ACM Sigmod Workshop on Research Issues in Data Mining and Knowledge Discovery (DMKD 2001), Tutorial Chair for the 2001 IEEE International Conference on Data Mining, Area Chair for the Twentieth International Conference on Machine Learning (ICML 2003), and is serving as co-Chair of the 2003 ACM SIGKDD Cup. Johannes has given courses and tutorials on data mining and data stream processing at international conferences and on Wall Street, and he has extensive industry experience as technical advisor.