Biography:Frank McSherry

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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]

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