After receiving his Ph.D. in Computer Science from The Hebrew University of Jerusalem, he has been a Research Staff Member at IBM Research – Almaden, and a Computer Scientist at LogicBlox. Benny’s research spans a spectrum of both foundational and systems aspects of data management, such as probabilistic databases, information retrieval over structured data, view updates, semistructured data, graph mining, and infrastructure for text analytics. Benny was an invited tutorial speaker at PODS 2014, a co-chair of the first SIGMOD/PODS workshop on Big Uncertain Data (BUDA), and currently serves as an associate editor in the Journal of Computer and System Sciences (JCSS).