Brian Cooper - Principal Research Scientist

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

Profile

I am a research scientist at Yahoo! Research. Before that I was an assistant professor at Georgia Tech, and before that I was a PhD student at Stanford.

My interests are in building distributed systems, and in particular, distributed systems that do database-style management and processing of data. At Yahoo! I work on building very large distributed data storage and processing systems. In previous lives I have worked on self-adaptive peer-to-peer systems, distributed streaming event processing, reliable distributed archival data storage, and XML indexing.

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...
  • Zookeeper - Distributed computing is sort of like herding cats. If not properly managed, chaos results.
  • 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! at VLDB 2008 - Yahoo! walked away with a total of 10 accepted papers, and several Yahoo! researchers served on various program committees.
  • Featured Researcher - Brian Cooper - Like many young kids, Brian Cooper got a personal computer for his eighth birthday. The difference, of course, is that back in 1983 most people had never heard of a PC.