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
with highest honors from UC Berkeley in 1999. His
research focuses on
distributed data management systems, Internet-scale query processing,
and the application of data-centric techniques and formal methods to the design,
analysis
and implementation of 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. He is a recipient
of the NSF
CAREER award (2009). He is also the program co-chair for the CoNEXT 2008 Student Workshop and
the NetDB 2009 workshop co-located with SOSP.
back