Johannes Gehrke

Johannes Gehrke is a German Computer Scientist and a Technical Fellow in the Enterprise and Devices Group at Microsoft, and he is also closely collaborating with Microsoft Research.[1] He is known for his work in database systems, distributed systems, and data mining. He is an ACM Fellow, and IEEE Fellow, and the recipient of the 2011 IEEE Computer Society Technical Achievement Award. From 1999 to 2015, he was a faculty member in the Department of Computer Science at Cornell University, where at the time of his leaving he was the Tisch University Professor of Computer Science.[2]

Gehrke is best known for his contributions to database systems, data mining, and data privacy. He developed some of the fastest early data mining algorithms for frequent pattern mining, sequential pattern mining, and decision tree construction, one of the first sensor network query processors which pioneered in-network query processing for wireless sensor networks, and his work on data privacy, which resulted in the very first public data product published by any official government agency in the world with provable privacy guarantees.