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Michael John Cafarella

Author ID
o0000-0001-6122-0590
ORCID
0000-0001-6122-0590
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(found by gpt-5.6-luna on jul 24 2026)
Most Frequent Institution
Massachusetts Institute of Technology
Pagerank
0.44642508
Overall Rank
80 | 99.64%
Paper Count
55

Affiliation Timeline

Incoming Non-self Citations Over Time

Total yearly non-self incoming citations across all papers by this author.

Publications by Paper Pagerank

Showing all 55 publications. Total citations include self and non-self citations.

Rank Title Year Venue Total Citations Pagerank
89 WebTables: Exploring the Power of Tables on the Web 2008 VLDB 86 0.00035115118
484 Data Integration for the Relational Web 2009 VLDB 41 0.00017541069
717 Palimpzest: Optimizing AI-Powered Analytics with Declarative Query Processing 2025 CIDR 46 0.00014528323
1,023 MIRIS: Fast Object Track Queries in Video 2020 SIGMOD 37 0.00012430702
1,115 Foofah: Transforming Data By Example 2017 SIGMOD 28 0.00011958625
1,282 Automatic Optimization for MapReduce Programs 2011 VLDB 19 0.00011208192
1,759 Structured Querying of Web Text: A Technical Challenge 2007 CIDR 11 9.7090189e-05
1,776 Sample-Driven Schema Mapping 2012 SIGMOD 22 9.6631141e-05
1,781 Duoquest: A Dual-Specification System for Expressive SQL Queries 2020 SIGMOD 7 9.6499657e-05
2,028 Database Learning: Toward a Database that Becomes Smarter Every Time 2017 SIGMOD 28 9.1584244e-05
2,587 Brainwash: A Data System for Feature Engineering 2013 CIDR 23 8.2523942e-05
3,049 Abacus: A Cost-Based Optimizer for Semantic Operator Systems 2026 VLDB 18 7.7087759e-05
3,289 Ten Years of WebTables 2018 VLDB 7 7.4500131e-05
3,464 DBOS: A DBMS-oriented Operating System 2022 VLDB 16 7.2788609e-05
3,718 Machine Learning and Databases: The Sound of Things to Come or a Cacophony of Hype? 2015 SIGMOD 7 7.0703796e-05
4,292 A Method for Optimizing Opaque Filter Queries 2020 SIGMOD 12 6.6792739e-05
4,395 Extracting Databases from Dark Data with DeepDive 2016 SIGMOD 8 6.6175689e-05
4,555 Extracting and Querying a Comprehensive Web Database 2009 CIDR 4 6.5360312e-05
4,558 Databases Unbound: Querying All of the World’s Bytes with AI 2024 VLDB 7 6.5333125e-05
4,852 Neighbor-Sensitive Hashing 2016 VLDB 7 6.3776281e-05
5,424 An Integrated Development Environment for Faster Feature Engineering 2014 VLDB 3 6.1335956e-05
5,842 Pando: Enhanced Data Skipping with Logical Data Partitioning 2023 VLDB 7 5.971167e-05
6,186 Causal Data Integration 2023 VLDB 11 5.8559807e-05
6,438 Summarized Causal Explanations For Aggregate Views 2024 SIGMOD 12 5.7826256e-05
6,701 Web Data Management 2011 SIGMOD 3 5.7035061e-05
6,715 Replicated Layout for In-Memory Database Systems 2022 VLDB 5 5.6989853e-05
6,939 PalimpChat: Declarative and Interactive AI analytics 2025 SIGMOD 4 5.6372718e-05
6,989 Cackle: Analytical Workload Cost and Performance Stability With Elastic Pools 2023 SIGMOD 5 5.6257777e-05
7,259 SeeSaw: Interactive Ad-hoc Search Over Image Databases 2023 SIGMOD 4 5.5695263e-05
7,732 A Progress Report on DBOS: A Database-oriented Operating System 2022 CIDR 5 5.4637552e-05
7,766 Senbazuru: A Prototype Spreadsheet Database Management System 2013 VLDB 4 5.4556091e-05
8,030 Foofah: A Programming-By-Example System for Synthesizing Data Transformation Programs 2017 SIGMOD 2 5.4021584e-05
8,757 Optimizing Video Selection LIMIT Queries With Commonsense Knowledge 2024 VLDB 3 5.2827519e-05
8,872 Transactions Make Debugging Easy 2023 CIDR 3 5.2597749e-05
9,152 Constructing Expressive Relational Queries with Dual-Specification Synthesis 2020 CIDR 2 5.2178435e-05
9,241 Causal DAG Summarization 2025 VLDB 3 5.2032182e-05
9,548 Controlled Intentional Degradation in Analytical Video Systems 2022 SIGMOD 3 5.159717e-05
9,865 HILDA'22: The SIGMOD 2022 Workshop on Human-in-the-Loop Data Analytics 2022 SIGMOD 1 5.1159789e-05
10,214 From Logs to Causal Inference: Diagnosing Large Systems 2025 VLDB 3 5.0572653e-05
10,481 Interpretable Attribute Discretization 2026 SIGMOD 0 4.9769913e-05
10,989 Carnot: Interpretable, Interactive, and Optimized Execution of Deep Research Queries 2026 VLDB 0 4.9769913e-05
11,150 CausaLens: A System for Summarizing Causal DAGs 2025 SIGMOD 0 4.9769913e-05
11,152 CauSumX: Summarized Causal Explanations For Group-By-Average Queries 2025 SIGMOD 0 4.9769913e-05
11,172 SeerCuts: Explainable Attribute Discretization 2025 SIGMOD 0 4.9769913e-05
11,634 LucidScript: Bottom-up Standardization for Data Preparation 2024 VLDB 0 4.9769913e-05
11,772 R3: Record-Replay-Retroaction for Database-Backed Applications 2023 VLDB 2 4.9769913e-05
11,789 PAINE Demo: Optimizing Video Selection Queries With Commonsense Knowledge 2023 VLDB 0 4.9769913e-05
11,833 Building a Shared Conceptual Model of Complex, Heterogeneous Data Systems: A Demonstration 2022 CIDR 0 4.9769913e-05
12,137 Demonstration of a Multiresolution Schema Mapping System 2019 CIDR 0 4.9769913e-05
12,264 Constraint-based Explanation and Repair of Filter-based Transformations 2018 VLDB 0 4.9769913e-05
12,303 A Declarative Query Processing System for Nowcasting 2017 VLDB 1 4.9769913e-05
12,387 Synthesizing Data Programs 2015 CIDR 0 4.9769913e-05
12,434 Mindtagger: A Demonstration of Data Labeling in Knowledge Base Construction 2015 VLDB 1 4.9769913e-05
12,839 How Best to Build Web-Scale Data Managers? A Panel Discussion 2009 VLDB 0 4.9769913e-05
13,967 Ringtail: A Generalized Nowcasting System 2013 VLDB 1 -

Frequent Co-authors

Co-authored at least 5 papers.

Co-author Shared Papers Rank Pagerank
Samuel R. Madden 10 1 1.4017771
Brit Youngmann 9 378 0.16426124
Tim Kraska 7 13 0.93045773
Christopher Ré 7 63 0.50355869
Michael R. Anderson 7 1,315 0.057483725
HV Jagadish 6 6 1.1404154
Zhongjun Jin 5 1,111 0.066658773
Yuze Lou 5 2,388 0.035487372