Sanjay Ghemawat

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Sanjay Ghemawat
Born1966 (age 57–58)
West Lafayette, Indiana, U.S.
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Awards
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Thesis The Modified Object Buffer: A Storage Management Technique for Object-Oriented Databases  (1995)
Doctoral advisors

Sanjay Ghemawat (born 1966 in West Lafayette, Indiana) [1] is an Indian American [2] computer scientist and software engineer. He is currently a Senior Fellow at Google in the Systems Infrastructure Group. [3] [4] Ghemawat's work at Google, much of it in close collaboration with Jeff Dean, [5] has included big data processing model MapReduce, the Google File System, and databases Bigtable and Spanner. Wired has described him as one of the "most important software engineers of the internet age". [5]

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Ghemawat was elected as a member into the National Academy of Engineering in 2009 for contributions to the science and engineering of large-scale distributed computer systems.

Education and early career

Ghemawat was born in West Lafayette, Indiana and grew up in Kota, Rajasthan. [6] He studied at Cornell University and the Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT). [3] He obtained a PhD from MIT in 1995, with a dissertation titled, The Modified Object Buffer: A Storage Management Technique for Object-Oriented Databases. His advisors were Barbara Liskov and Frans Kaashoek. [7]

Before joining Google, Ghemawat worked at the DEC Systems Research Center. There he began his long-time collaboration with Jeff Dean, who worked at another DEC research lab nearby. Their work at DEC included a Java compiler and a system profiling tool. [5]

Career at Google

After DEC was acquired by Compaq, many of its researchers left the company. Dean took a position at the newly founded search-engine company Google, and was joined by Ghemawat in 1999. The two began working on Google's core infrastructure, making improvements to cope with the search engine's rapid growth in users in the early 2000s. [5]

Ghemawat's work at Google includes:

Awards and honors

Ghemawat was elected to the National Academy of Engineering in 2009, [2] and to the American Academy of Arts and Sciences in 2016. [8] In 2012, he and Dean received the ACM Prize in Computing for their work on internet infrastructure, [2] [3] [4] and the ACM SIGOPS Mark Weiser Award. [9]

Selected publications

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References

  1. ↑ "The Friendship That Made Google Huge". New Yorker. December 10, 2018. Retrieved December 10, 2018.
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  3. 1 2 3 "Sanjay Ghemawat – ACM Prize in Computing". Award Winners. Association for Computing Machinery . Retrieved December 16, 2017.
  4. 1 2 "ACM And Infosys Foundation Honor Google Developers For Innovations That Transformed Internet-Scale Computing". Infosys . Retrieved December 16, 2017.
  5. 1 2 3 4 Metz, Cade (August 8, 2012). "If Xerox PARC Invented the PC, Google Invented the Internet". WIRED. Archived from the original on December 7, 2017. Retrieved December 16, 2017.
  6. ↑ Somers, James (December 3, 2018). "The Friendship That Made Google Huge". The New Yorker. ISSN   0028-792X . Retrieved August 21, 2024.
  7. ↑ "Sanjay Ghemawat". The Mathematics Genealogy Project. Department of Mathematics, North Dakota State University. Retrieved December 16, 2017.
  8. ↑ "Membership". American Academy of Arts and Sciences . Retrieved December 16, 2017.
  9. ↑ "The Mark Weiser Award". ACM SIGOPS. Retrieved July 5, 2019.
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