Education
Hellerstein attended Harvard University from 1986-1990 and pursued his masters in Computer Science at University of California Berkeley from 1991-1992.
Hellerstein attended Harvard University from 1986-1990 and pursued his masters in Computer Science at University of California Berkeley from 1991-1992.
He co-founded Trifacta with Jeffrey Heer and Sean Kandel in 2012, which stemmed from their research project, Wrangler. He has made seminal contributions to many areas of database systems, such as ad-hoc sensor networks, adaptive query processing, approximate query processing and online aggregation, declarative networking, and data stream processing.
His work has been recognized via awards including an Alfred P. Sloan Fellowship, Massachusetts Institute of Technology Technology Review"s inaugural TR100 list and TR10 list, Fortune 50 smartest in Technical, and three Association for Computing Machinery (ACM)-SIGMOD "Test of Time" awards. He is a Fellow of the Association for Computing Machinery (2009). Key ideas from his research have been incorporated into commercial and open-source database software released by International Business Machines Corporation, Oracle Corporation, and PostgreSQL. He has also held industrial posts including Director of Intel Research Labs, and Chief Scientist of Cohera Corporation.
