Frank McSherry

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]

  1. ^ Chita, Efi. "2017 Gödel Prize". Eatcs.org. Retrieved 19 Oct 2020.
  2. ^ F.McSherry and K.Talwar. Mechanism Design via Differential Privacy. Proceedings of the 48th Annual Symposium of Foundations of Computer Science, 2007.
  3. ^ "Past Winners of the PET Award".
  4. ^ Murray, Derek G.; McSherry, Frank; Isaacs, Rebecca; Isard, Michael; Barham, Paul; Abadi, Martín (2013-11-03). "Naiad". Proceedings of the Twenty-Fourth ACM Symposium on Operating Systems Principles. SOSP '13. New York, NY, USA: Association for Computing Machinery. pp. 439–455. doi:10.1145/2517349.2522738. ISBN 978-1-4503-2388-8. S2CID 14796003.
  5. ^ "Streaming database platform provider Materialize lands $60M". VentureBeat. 2021-09-30. Retrieved 2021-12-05.
  6. ^ "Materialize scores $40 million investment for SQL streaming database". TechCrunch. Retrieved 2021-12-05.
  7. ^ "About". Materialize. Retrieved 2021-12-05.