Biography:Mike Cafarella

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Short description: American computer scientist


Mike Cafarella
Mike Cafarella - Ann Arbor Bowling Champion.jpg
Born
Poughkeepsie, New York
Alma materUniversity of Washington, University of Edinburgh, Brown University
Known forHadoop, Nutch
Scientific career
FieldsComputer Science
InstitutionsMassachusetts Institute of Technology
University of Michigan
Doctoral advisorDan Suciu

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]

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