Samuel Madden Professor, EECS Email: madden AT csail DOT mit DOT edu Phone: (617)258-6643 Fax: (617)253-8460 Assistant: Sheila Marian (sheila AT csail DOT mit DOT edu, x3-1996) Room 32-G938 Computer Science and Artificial Intelligence Laboratory (CSAIL) 32 Vassar St. Cambridge, MA 02139

I lead BigData@CSAIL and co-direct the Intel Science and Technology Center (ISTC) in Big Data. This years New England Database Summit will be held February 1, 2013, at MIT CSAIL. Personal Information Short bio Ph.D. (Berkeley) 2003; M.Eng. (MIT) 1999; B.S. (MIT) 1999. Teaching Spring, 2012, 6.830/6.814 Spring, 2010, 6.033 (lectures, with Robert Morris) Fall 2009, Database Systems(6.830) Spring, 2009, 6.033 (lectures, with Robert Morris) Fall 2008, Database Systems(6.830) Fall 2007, Database Systems(6.830) Spring 2007, 6.033 (sections) Fall 2006, Database Systems(6.830) Spring 2006, 6.033 (sections) Fall 2005, Database Systems(6.830) Spring 2005, 6.033 (lectures, with Hari Balakrishnan) Fall 2004, Database Systems (6.893) Spring 2004, 6.033 (sections) Research My primary research focus is on database systems, including main memory databases, data warehousing/analytics, database-as-a-service, and querying data streams and networks of distributed devices such as wireless sensor networks. Recent and current research projects and interests include: Qurk, a project investigating how people (as accessed via crowdsourcing platforms like Amazon's Mechanical Turk) can be integrated into query processing. SciDB, a multi-institution project developing a data management platform for scientific applications, including astronomy and computational biology. Relational Cloud, a project looking at building a scalable database service for the cloud. H-Store, a next generation high-performance OLTP engine. The CarTel networking and data management system for mobile sensor networks. C-Store, a column-oriented high performance database system for warehouse and semantic web applications. WaveScope, a signal-oriented stream processing system. Past projects include: The MACAQUE project, which focused on identifying ways to make data collected from sensor networks more reliable and useful. Developing novel query processing and optimization techniques for sensor networks and other acquisitional systems. TinyDB (a part of TinyOS.) Aurora/Borealis stream processor. TelegraphCQ continuous query processor. Students Current Ph.D. students: Alvin Cheung Anant Bhardwaj Yuan Mei Stephen Tu Manasi Vartak Eugene Wu Graduated Ph.D. students: Daniel Abadi (Yale) -- Thesis: Query execution in column-oriented database systems Adam Marcus -- Thesis: "Optimization Techniques for Human Computation-enabled Data Processing Systems" Ryan Newton (U. of Indiana) -- Thesis: Language Design for Distributed Stream Processing Arvind Thiagarajan (co-supervised with Hari Balakrishnan) -- Thesis: Probabilistic Models for Mobile Phone Trajectory Estimation Evan Jones -- Thesis: Fault-Tolerant Distributed Transactions for Partitioned OLTP Databases Graduated M.Eng. students: Michael Craig (Thesis: "Compiler optimizations for an asynchronous stream-oriented programming language") Kevin Emery (Thesis: "Distributed Eventing Architecture: RFID and Sensors in a Supply Chain" [PDF]) Michael Farry (Thesis: "Sensor networks for social networks") Miguel Ferreira (Thesis: "Compression and Query Execution within Column Oriented Databases" [PDF]) George Huo (Thesis: "Correlation indices : a new access method to exploit correlated attributes") Jon Hyler (Thesis: "An Augmentation Algorithm for Improving Longevity in Ad Hoc Wireless Networks" [PDF]) Edmond Lau (Thesis: "HARBOR : an integrated approach to recovery and high availability in an updatable, distributed data warehouse") Umberto Malesci (Thesis: "A Measurement-based Analysis of the Interaction among MAC, Network and Application Layers in Wireless Sensor Networks" [PDF]) Oscar Moll (Thesis: "Database Partitioning Strategies for Social Network Data) José Alberto Muñiz Navarro Nizameddin Ordulu (Thesis "A file system for accessing MySQL tables as CSV files Lev Popov (Thesis: "iNav : a hybrid approach to WiFi localization and tracking of mobile devices") Elizabeth Reid (Thesis: "Design and evaluation of a benchmark for main memory transaction processing systems") Adam Seering Aubrey Tatarowicz Timur Tokmouline (Thesis "A signal oriented stream processing system for pipeline monitoring") Publications and Talks Awards and Honors C. V. Ramamoorthy Distinguished Research Award, UC Berkeley, 2003 VLDB 2004 Best Paper Award NSF CAREER Award (Project Page), 2005 MIT TR35 Outstanding Researcher Under the Age of 35, 2005 MobiCom Best Paper Award, 2006 SenSys Best Demo Award, 2006 Sloan Fellowship, 2007 IBM Facutly Development Award, 2007 VLDB Best Paper Award, 2007 Sensys Best Paper Award, 2009 VLDB Best Demo Award, 2011 Miscellaneous Technical Articles and Software I am the primary author of iCarTel a crowdsourced traffic data collection applications for iPhones. Report summarizing the (non)effect of double-blind reviewing on acceptance rates in database conferences since the adoption of a double-blind process in SIGMOD 2001. Check out WidgetRunner, a program to run MacOS dashboard Widgets on the desktop. Extract Faces is a simple MacOS application to extract face snapshot from Aperture 3.0 libraries. Localyzer is an iPhone app I wrote to track the amount of time I spend at different locations, using the built in geo-fencing API on phones. My friend Rigel Stuhmiller and I wrote an iPad application for kids called Animal Creator; it's a coloring / drawing app. You can get it from the Apple App Store. Community Activities SIGMOD 2004 Demo Committee OSDI 2004 Program Committee Organizer of the 2004 DMSN Workshop on Data Management in Wireless Sensor Networks held with VLDB 2004. CIDR 2005 Program Committee ICDE 2005 Program Committee SIGMOD 2005 Program Committee VLDB 2005 Program Committee Organizer of the 2005 DMSN Workshop on Data Management in Wireless Sensor Networks held with VLDB 2005. IPSN 2006 Program Committee SIGMOD 2006 Demo Committee KDD 2006 Program Committee SenSys 2006 Program Committee SenSys 2006 Publications Chair SIGMOD 2007 Program Committee CIDR 2007 Program Committee DCOSS 2007 Systems Subcommitte Program Chair VLDB 2007 Program Committee VLDB 2008 Industrial Track Program Committee SIGMOD 2008 Program Committee IPSN 2008 PC Co-Chair ICDE 2009 Program Committee PVLDB 2010 Program Committee PVLDB 2011 Program Commitee SIGMOD 2011 Program Committee Editorial Board Member, Internet Computing Editorial Board Member, Transactions on Sensor Networks