Michael Cafarella is a Principal Research Scientist in the MIT Computer Science and Artificial Intelligence Lab. His research interests include databases, information extraction, data integration, and applying data-intensive methods to economics. He has published extensively in venues such as SIGMOD, VLDB, and elsewhere. Mike received his PhD from the University of Washington, Seattle, in 2009 with advisors Oren Etzioni and Dan Suciu. His academic awards include the NSF CAREER award, the Sloan Research Fellowship, and the 2018 VLDB Ten-Year Best Paper award. In addition to his academic work, he costarted (with Doug Cutting) the widely-used Hadoop open-source project. In 2015 he cofounded (with Chris Re and Feng Niu) Lattice Data, Inc, which is now part of Apple.