Brian F. Cooper is a senior research scientist at Yahoo! Research. His research interests include distributed information systems and databases. Currently, I am working on building very large scale, distributed information systems. Previously, he was an assistant professor at Georgia Tech, where he worked on self-managing peer-to-peer overlays and distributed in-network event processing. His PhD dissertation examined adaptive overlays for replicating data, and for searching for the replicated data once it had been scattered throughout a network.

Brian received his PhD in 2003 from Stanford University, where he worked in the database group, the digital library project, and the peer-to-peer group. His dissertation advisor was Hector Garcia-Molina. Brian also received his MS from Stanford in 2000, and his BS in computer science and BA in Chemistry from the University of Colorado.