Boon Thau Loo
Boon Thau Loo is an Assistant Professor in the Computer and Information
Science department at the University of Pennsylvania. He received his Ph.D. degree in Computer Science from the
University of California at Berkeley in 2006. Prior to his Ph.D, he
received his M.S. degree from Stanford University in 2000, and his B.S. degree
(highest honors) from UC Berkeley in 1999. His
research focuses on
distributed data management systems, Internet-scale query processing,
and the application of database technologies to networked systems. He was awarded the 2006 David J. Sakrison Memorial
Prize for the most outstanding dissertation research in the Department of EECS
at UC Berkeley, and the 2007 ACM SIGMOD Dissertation Award. During his
graduate studies, he collaborated closely with Intel Research
Laboratory at Berkeley, was a visiting researcher at Microsoft Research
Silicon Valley, and a visiting student at MIT.
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