Technical Biography

Joseph M. Hellerstein's work focuses on data-centric systems and the way they drive computing. He is the Jim Gray Professor of the Graduate School at the University of California, Berkeley. Recognitions of his research contributions include the ACM SIGMOD Codd Innovations Award, the ACM Fellow and Alfred P. Sloan Research Fellow awards, and seven "Test of Time" awards for his research papers, Fortune Magazine has included him in their list of 50 smartest people in technology, and MIT's Technology Review magazine included his work on cloud programming in their TR10 list of the 10 technologies "most likely to change our world". Hellerstein has taught thousands of Berkeley students and advised over 30 Ph.D.'s, three of whom were recognized with the ACM SIGMOD Jim Gray Dissertation award.

Hellerstein currently serves as a VP and Distinguished Scientist at Amazon Web Services. Previously he co-founded RunLLM, a vendor of AI assistants, and Trifacta, the pioneering company in Data Wrangling, where he served as founding CEO and Chief Strategy Officer. Hellerstein has served on the technical advisory boards of a number of computing and Internet companies, and previously served as the Director of Intel Research, Berkeley.

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