Education

Ph.D, Brown University, 1999
M.S., Concordia University, 1992
B.Ed., McGill University, 1984

Research Interests

My primary interests are in Database Systems, and in particular, niche data management areas such as stream processing and data warehouses. I am presently working on two projects:

• The Aurora/Borealis project is joint work with colleagues from MIT and Brown University. The goal of this project is the development of a database system supporting large scale continuous and historical queries over streaming (incl. sensor-generated) data.

• The C-Store project is joint work with colleagues from MIT, Brown University, University of Wisconsin and University of Massachusetts, Boston. The goal of this project is to develop a column-store storage and query execution engine to support petabyte-scale data warehousing.

If you think you might be interested in working on any of these projects as a graduate student, please send me mail at mfc@brandeis.edu.

Publications

My DBLP page can be found here.

Database Community

I am one of the founders and organizers of NEDS: the [N]ew [E]ngland [D]atabase [S]ociety. Please consult the NEDS web page for more information.

I am also a co-founder of and consultant for two startups: Streambase (a commercialization of Aurora) and Vertica (a commercialization of C-Store).

Personal

Prior to my academic career, I was a high school and elementary school teacher in Quebec, Canada. I first taught elementary school in a small isolated village named Bradore Bay on Quebec's Lower North Shore near Labrador. I then spent 5 years teaching at a high school in Montreal.

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