Adam Silberstein

Research Area: Web Information Management
Location: Yahoo! Research Silicon Valley

Profile

My current interests are in large distributed data systems. At Yahoo! I work on the PNUTS and Pig projects. My prior work focuses on sensor network query processing and XML data structures. I joined Yahoo! in August 2007, after finishing my Ph.D. at Duke University in February 2007.

Recent Publications, Projects and News

  • Yahoo! Wins Best Paper Award at SIGMOD 2009 - Yahoo! earned three awards this year including the Best Paper Award for "Generating Example Data for Dataflow Programs" by Chris Olston, Shubham Chopra and Utkarsh Srivastava.
  • Yahoo! Research at SIGMOD/PODS 2008 - The 28th ACM SIGMOD International Conference on Management of Data/Principles of Database Systems was held June 9 to 12 in beautiful Vancouver, British Columbia. The joint conference is universally regarded as the leading international forum for database researchers, practitioners, developers, and users.
  • Yahoo! at VLDB 2008 - Yahoo! walked away with a total of 10 accepted papers, and several Yahoo! researchers served on various program committees.