Samuel Madden (computer scientist)

Madden was born and raised in San Diego, California. While in high school and as an undergraduate, he wrote printer driver software for Palomar Software, a San Diego-area Macintosh software company. He earned bachelor's and master's degrees from MIT in 1999. He then pursued a PhD in computer science at the University of California, Berkeley, where his dissertation focused on query processing for sensor networks, under the supervision of Michael J. Franklin and Joseph M. Hellerstein. During his doctoral studies, he contributed to the TelegraphCQ continuous query processing system. ==Career==

After completing his doctorate in 2003, Madden held a postdoctoral position at Intel's Berkeley Research center before joining MIT as a tenure-track professor. At MIT, Madden has led or contributed to several influential database research projects, including TinyDB, Aurora/Borealis, C-Store, and H-Store. In recent years, his group has focused on declarative and agent-driven data systems for managing and optimizing AI-powered analytical workloads. Madden is a co-founder of Vertica Systems and Cambridge Mobile Telematics. He is also a Technology Expert at Omega Venture Partners. In 2024, he was appointed the faculty head of computer science at MIT. ==Awards and recognitions==

Madden won a National Science Foundation CAREER Award in 2004 and a Sloan Research Fellowship in 2007. He received the 2024 SIGMOD Edgar F. Codd Innovations Award for his contributions to column-oriented database systems, high-performance transaction processing, and systems for mobile and sensor data. ==References==