Education
Stanford University; University of Washington.
Stanford University; University of Washington.
He was a research scientist at Google from 2005 to 2015, when he left to become head of Recruit Institute of Technology. Until 2006, he was a professor of computer science at the University of Washington. He received his Doctor of Philosophy from Stanford University in 1993.
At Google he has been involved in Google Fusion Tables.
He is a fellow of the Association for Computing Machinery (ACM) and a winner of the 2006 VLDB 10-year best paper award. He was a Sloan Fellow, and received the Presidential Early Career Award for Scientists and Engineers (PECASE) in 2000. He is the founder of two technology companies, Nimble Technology (now Actuate Corporation) and Transformic Incorporated.