Samuel Madden (computer scientist)

Samuel R. Madden (born August 4, 1976) is an American computer scientist specializing in database management systems. He is a professor of computer science at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology.

Samuel Madden
Born	(1976-08-04) August 4, 1976 (age 48) San Diego, California, U.S.
Education	Massachusetts Institute of Technology (B.S. and M.Eng., 1999)[1] UC Berkeley (PhD, 2003)[2]
Known for	Cambridge Mobile Telematics,[3] C-Store, Vertica, TinyDB,[4] TelegraphCQ,[5] H-Store
Scientific career
Fields	Computer Science
Institutions	Massachusetts Institute of Technology
Doctoral advisor	Michael J. Franklin and Joseph M. Hellerstein
Doctoral students	Daniel Abadi, Alvin Cheung,[6] Ryan Newton,[7] Eugene Wu[8]
Website	db.csail.mit.edu/madden

Career

Madden was born and raised in San Diego, California. After completing bachelor's and master's degrees at MIT, he earned a PhD in database management at the University of California Berkeley under Michael Franklin and Joseph M. Hellerstein. Before joining MIT as a tenure-track professor, Madden held a post-doc position at Intel's Berkeley Research center.^{[9][10][11][12]}

Madden has been involved in several database research projects, including TinyDB,^[4] TelegraphCQ,^[5] Aurora/Borealis, C-Store, and H-Store. He has published more than 250 scholarly articles, with more than 59,000 citations, with an h-index of 101.^[13]

Madden is a co-founder of Cambridge Mobile Telematics^[3] and Vertica Systems. Before enrolling at MIT and while an undergraduate student there, Madden wrote printer driver software for Palomar Software, a San Diego-area Macintosh software company. He is also a Technology Expert at Omega Venture Partners.^[14][15]

In 2024, he was appointed the faculty head of computer science at MIT.^[16]

Awards and recognitions

Madden won a National Science Foundation CAREER Award in 2004 and a Sloan Research Fellowship in 2007.^[17][18]

He received VLDB's best paper award in 2007 and VLDB's test of time award in 2015 for his 2005 paper on C-Store.^[19][20]

He also received a test of time award in SIGMOD 2013 for his 2003 paper The Design of an Acquisitional Query Processor for Sensor Networks.^[21]

In 2020 he was named a fellow of the Association for Computing Machinery.^[22]

He received the 2024 SIGMOD Edgar F. Codd Innovations Award for his contributions to multiple aspects of data management, including column-oriented database systems, high performance transaction processing, and systems for mobile and sensor data.^[23]