Dr. Sam Madden

Prior to Omega, Sam co-founded co-founded Vertica Systems (acquired by Hewlett Packard) and Cambridge Mobile Telematics, an Intelligent Software company in the Financial Services and Insurance vertical. Sam is a leading technical authority in the fields of Artificial Intelligence and Big Data. As a faculty member of MIT’s Computer Science and Artificial Intelligence Laboratory (CSAIL), Sam has co-directed MIT’s Data Systems and Artificial Intelligence Lab (DSAIL).

Sam has been named a ‘Top 35 Innovator Under 35’ by Technology Review magazine. He is the recipient of several awards, including the NSF CAREER Award, Sloan Foundation Fellowship, best paper award in VLDB, and best paper award in MobiCom. He also received a “test of time” award in SIGMOD, and a ten-year best paper award in VLDB.

Sam holds a PhD in Computer Science from the University of California, Berkeley as well as Bachelors and Masters degrees in Computer Science from the Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT).