Michael J. Cafarella

Michael J. Cafarella is an Associate Professor in the Computer Science and Engineering department at the University of Michigan. His research focuses on databases, information extraction, data integration, and data mining, with applications in economics, social media analysis, and combating human trafficking. He leads the Software Systems Lab and Michigan Database Group.

Scientific Awards

• NSF CAREER award
• Sloan Research Fellowship (2016)
• 2018 VLDB Ten-Year Best Paper award

Research Impact: Cafarella co-founded the Hadoop open-source project and Lattice Data (acquired by Apple). His work on DeepDive and DARPA MEMEX was featured on 60 Minutes and in Scientific American.

Funding from The Census Bureau, DARPA, Google, NSF, Yahoo!, General Electric, and Dow.