BY BJORN CAREY (Stanford News Service)
Christopher Ré, an assistant professor of computer science at Stanford, has been named one of the 2015 fellows of the John D. and Catherine T. MacArthur Foundation.
The fellowships, popularly known as "genius grants," are awarded to scholars for their achievement and potential, and include a $625,000 stipend over five years. The honors rank among the most prestigious prizes in academia and the creative arts.
The MacArthur Foundation recognized Ré for excellence in a breadth of computer science disciplines, describing him as "democratizing big-data analytics through open source data-processing products that have the power of machine learning algorithms but can be integrated into existing and applied database systems."
Some of these efforts have helped Ré develop the DeepDive data inference system, which can analyze large batches of genetic and medical studies to advance drug development, and which DARPA uses to comb data on the "dark web" to identify and break up human trafficking rings. The MacArthur Foundation hailed these as examples of how Ré is revolutionizing researchers' ability to make big data truly accessible and widely useful.
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