Michael Franklin

Algorithms, Machines, and People Laboratory (AMPLab) and was Principal Investigator of the lab’s National Science Foundation Computer and Information Science and Engineering (CISE) "Expeditions in Computing" award. He is one of the original creators of Apache Spark, a leading open source platform for data analytics and machine learning that was initially developed at the lab.

 Franklin was founding CEO and CTO of Truviso, a data analytics company acquired by Cisco Systems. He is a technical advisor to data-driven technology companies and organizations, including AMPLab spin-outs Databricks and Alluxio and Chicago-based Ocient and Zengines. 

He received a Ph.D. in Computer Science from the University of Wisconsin in 1993, a Master of Software Engineering from the Wang Institute of Graduate Studies in 1986, and a B.S. in Computer and Information Science from the University of Massachusetts in 1983.