The University of Wisconsin–Madison

University of Wisconsin–Madison

The University of Wisconsin–Madison is a public research university located in Madison, Wisconsin, United States. Founded in 1848, UW–Madison is the flagship campus of the University of Wisconsin System. It became a land-grant institution in 1866...

 Database Group is an academic data management research group. It is currently led by Professors Jeffrey Naughton

Jeffrey Naughton

Jeffrey Naughton is a Professor and the department chair of Computer Sciences at the University of Wisconsin–Madison. He received a bachelor's degree from the University of Wisconsin–Madison in 1982, and a Ph.D. from Stanford University in 1987...

, Jignesh M. Patel

Jignesh M. Patel

Jignesh M. Patel is a Professor of Computer Science in the Database Group at the University of Wisconsin-Madison. He got his PhD from the University of Wisconsin-Madison in 1998. He was a faculty member at the University of Michigan from 1999–2008, and joined the faculty at the University of...

, AnHai Doan, Christopher Re and David J. DeWitt (Emeritus).

The group is known for its pioneering contributions in the areas of parallel databases, database benchmarking, deductive databases, query optimization, object-relational databases, data mining, stream databases, XML databases and web information management.

Its alumni have gone on to distinguished careers in the data management field in both academia and industry, including the University of California-Berkeley, Carnegie Mellon University

Carnegie Mellon University

Carnegie Mellon University is a private research university in Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania, United States....

, 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...

, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign

University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign

The University of Illinois at Urbana–Champaign is a large public research-intensive university in the state of Illinois, United States. It is the flagship campus of the University of Illinois system...

, University of Wisconsin-Madison, Facebook

Facebook

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, Google

Google

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, HP, IBM

IBM

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, LinkedIn

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, Microsoft

Microsoft

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, Oracle

Oracle Corporation

Oracle Corporation is an American multinational computer technology corporation that specializes in developing and marketing hardware systems and enterprise software products – particularly database management systems...

, and Yahoo.