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]

References

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.