Gehrke

Johannes Gehrke, professor of computer science, has received an award from the Alexander von Humboldt Foundation to support a collaborative research project with Peter Druschel, scientific director of the Max Planck Institute for Software Systems in Saarbruecken, Germany.

The award of 60,000 euros (about $80,000) will enable Gehrke to spend eight months in Germany, working with Druschel and other Planck Institute researchers on data-intensive distributed systems that make up the software infrastructure inside such large Web companies as Amazon, Yahoo! and Google.

Gehrke is a specialist in database systems, data mining, data privacy and applications of database and data mining technology to marketing and the sciences. He will be on partial leave from Cornell January through August for the project.

The Humboldt Foundation, established by the Federal Republic of Germany in 1953, grants about 100 awards annually to enable foreign scientists to work in Germany and German scientists to work in other countries. Alexander von Humboldt (1769-1859) was an explorer and naturalist noted for his patronage of young scientists and scholars.

Gehrke has also received a National Science Foundation Career Award, an Arthur P. Sloan Fellowship, an IBM Faculty Award, the Cornell College of Engineering James and Mary Tien Excellence in Teaching Award and the Cornell Provost's Award for Distinguished Scholarship.