Sam Madden, the School of Computing Distinguished Professor of Computing at MIT, has been named the brand new school head of pc science within the MIT Division of Electrical Engineering and Laptop Science (EECS), efficient Aug. 1.
Madden succeeds Arvind, a longtime MIT professor and prolific pc scientist, who handed away in June.
“Sam’s analysis management and dedication to excellence, alongside together with his considerate and supportive strategy, makes him a pure match to assist lead the division going ahead. In gentle of Arvind’s passing, we’re significantly grateful that Sam has agreed to tackle this position on such quick discover,” says Daniel Huttenlocher, dean of the MIT Schwarzman School of Computing and the Henry Ellis Warren Professor of Electrical Engineering and Laptop Science.
“Sam’s distinctive analysis contributions in database administration techniques, coupled together with his deep understanding of each academia and business, make him a superb match for school head of pc science. The EECS division and broader College of Engineering will tremendously profit from his experience and keenness,” provides Anantha Chandrakasan, chief innovation and technique officer, dean of engineering, and Vannevar Bush Professor of Electrical Engineering and Laptop Science.
Madden joins the management of EECS, which collectively stories to the MIT Schwarzman School of Computing and the College of Engineering. The biggest educational division at MIT, EECS was reorganized in 2019 as a part of the formation of the faculty into three overlapping sub-units in electrical engineering (EE), pc science (CS), and synthetic intelligence and decision-making (AI+D). The restructuring has enabled every of the three sub-units to focus on school recruitment, mentoring, promotion, educational packages, and neighborhood constructing in coordination with the others.
“I am delighted that Sam has agreed to step as much as tackle this essential management position. His distinctive mixture of educational excellence and forward-looking focus can be invaluable for us,” says Asu Ozdaglar, MathWorks Professor and head of EECS, who additionally serves because the deputy dean of the MIT Schwarzman School of Computing. “I’m assured that he’ll provide distinctive management in his new position and additional strengthen EECS for our college students and the MIT neighborhood.”
A member of the MIT school since 2004, Madden is a professor in EECS and a principal investigator within the Laptop Science and Synthetic Intelligence Laboratory. He was acknowledged because the inaugural School of Computing Distinguished Professor of Computing in 2020 for being an impressive school member, chief, and innovator.
Madden’s analysis curiosity is in database techniques, specializing in database analytics and question processing, starting from clouds to sensors to fashionable high-performance server architectures. He co-directs the Knowledge Techniques for AI Lab initiative and the Knowledge Techniques Group, investigating points associated to techniques and algorithms for information specializing in making use of new methodologies for processing information, together with making use of machine studying strategies to information techniques and engineering information techniques for making use of machine studying at scale.
He was named considered one of MIT Expertise Overview’s “High 35 Below 35” in 2005 and an ACM Fellow in 2020. He’s the recipient of a number of awards, together with an NSF CAREER award, a Sloan Basis Fellowship, the ACM SIGMOD Edgar F. Codd Improvements Award, and “check of time” awards from VLDB, SIGMOD, SIGMOBILE, and SenSys. He’s additionally the co-founder and chief scientist at Cambridge Cell Telematics, which develops know-how to make roads safer and drivers higher.