Michael J. Franklin

Michael J. Franklin
NationalityAmerican
CitizenshipUnited States
Alma materUniversity of Wisconsin-Madison (Ph.D.), Wang Institute of Graduate Studies (Master), University of Massachusetts Amherst (Bachelor)
Scientific career
FieldsComputer Science
InstitutionsUniversity of Chicago
University of California Berkeley
ThesisCaching and memory management in client-server database systems (1993)
Doctoral advisorMichael James Carey
Websitecs.uchicago.edu/directory/michael-franklin

Michael Jay Franklin is an American software entrepreneur and computer scientist specializing in distributed and streaming database technology. He is Liew Family Chair of Computer Science and chairman for the Department of Computer Science at the University of Chicago.

Franklin was the top cited scholar in the field of databases, according to the 2022 AI 2000 records.