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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