Mike Cafarella
Associate Professor
Computer Science and Engineering
2260 Hayward St.
University of Michigan
Ann Arbor, MI 48109-2121

Office: 4709 Beyster
Phone: 734-764-9418
Fax: 734-763-8094
Send email to me at michjc, found at umich dot edu

Michael Cafarella is an Associate Professor of Computer Science and Engineering at the University of Michigan. His research interests include databases, information extraction, data integration, and data mining. He has published extensively in venues such as SIGMOD, VLDB, and elsewhere. Mike received his PhD from the University of Washington, Seattle, in 2009 with advisors Oren Etzioni and Dan Suciu. His academic awards include the NSF CAREER award, the Sloan Research Fellowship, and the 2018 VLDB Ten-Year Best Paper award. In addition to his academic work, he costarted (with Doug Cutting) the Hadoop open-source project, which is widely used at Facebook, Yahoo!, and elsewhere. In 2015 he cofounded (with Chris Re and Feng Niu) Lattice Data, Inc, which is now part of Apple.