MICHAEL J. FRANKLIN is the Morton D. Hull Distinguished Service Professor of Computer Science and Sr. Advisor to the Provost for Computing and Data Science at the University of Chicago. At Chicago he was Liew Family Chair of the Computer Science Department and has been instrumental in the creation of the Data Science Institute. Previously he was Thomas M. Siebel Professor of Computer Science at the University of California, Berkeley where he also served a term as Chair of the Computer Science Division. As Co-Director of Algorithms, Machines and People Laboratory (AMPLab) at Berkeley he was one of the original creators of Apache Spark, a leading open source platform for data science and machine learning that was initially developed at the lab. Franklin was Founding CEO of Truviso, a real-time analytics company acquired by Cisco and has advised a number of data-driven companies including AMPLab spinouts Databricks and Determined.ai, and Chicago-based Ocient and Zengines. He is a Member of the American Academy of Arts and Sciences and is a Fellow of the ACM and the American Association for the Advancement of Science. He received the 2022 ACM SIGMOD Systems Award, and is a two-time recipient of the ACM SIGMOD “Test of Time” award.