Previously, Dr. Franklin was at the University of Maryland, College Park, where he led the development of the DIMSUM flexible query processing architecture and was a co-developer of the Broadcast Disks data dissemination paradigm. He is Editor-In-Chief of the ACM SIGMOD Record, is an editor of ACM Computing Surveys, and is Program Co-Chair for the 2nd International Conference on Mobile Data Management to be held in Hong Kong this January. He currently serves on the Technology Advisory Boards of several Bay Area start ups, including: AppStream, CommonObject, Propel, and RightOrder. He is a 1995 recipient of the NSF CAREER award and a 2000 recipient of an Okawa Foundation research grant.