Philip Bohannon - Principal Research Scientist

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

Profile

After a few years at a start-up, Philip received his Ph.D degrees in Computer Science from Rutgers in 2000. Prior to joining Yahoo! Research, he was a Member of Technical Staff in the Information Sciences Research Center at Bell Labs. His interests include XML processing, information extraction, data integration, data cleaning and a variety of indexing and performance topics.

Recent Publications, Projects and News

  • PNUTS - Platform for Nimble Universal Table Storage - During brainstorming sessions with colleagues Philip Bohannon and Brian Cooper, Ramakrishnan wondered whether they could design a simpler...
  • 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.