Johannes Gehrke is a professor of computer science

Computer science

Computer science or computing science is the study of the theoretical foundations of information and computation and of practical techniques for their implementation and application in computer systems...

 at Cornell University

Cornell University

Cornell University is an Ivy League university located in Ithaca, New York, United States. It is a private land-grant university, receiving annual funding from the State of New York for certain educational missions...

 who works in the areas of database systems and data mining

Data mining

Data mining , a relatively young and interdisciplinary field of computer science is the process of discovering new patterns from large data sets involving methods at the intersection of artificial intelligence, machine learning, statistics and database systems...

. He received his PhD from the University of Wisconsin, Madison in 1999 for a thesis in data mining

Data mining

Data mining , a relatively young and interdisciplinary field of computer science is the process of discovering new patterns from large data sets involving methods at the intersection of artificial intelligence, machine learning, statistics and database systems...

. Since its second edition, he has been a co-author of the standard textbook on database systems, commonly known as the Cow Book. Johannes currently leads database research initiatives at Cornell. His group is popularly known as the Big Red Data group.

External links

• Johannes Gehrke's homepage: http://www.cs.cornell.edu/johannes/
• Database research at Cornell University: http://www.cs.cornell.edu/bigreddata/
• Big Red Data blog: http://bigreddata.blogspot.com/
• Johannes Gehrke at DBLP: http://www.informatik.uni-trier.de/~ley/db/indices/a-tree/g/Gehrke:Johannes.html