Phil Bernstein
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Phil Bernstein is a computer scientist
Computer scientist
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 specializing in database
Database
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 research in the Database Group of Microsoft Research
Microsoft Research
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. Bernstein is also an affiliate professor at the University of Washington
University of Washington
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 and frequent committee member or chair of conferences such as VLDB
VLDB
VLDB is an annual conference held by the non-profit Very Large Data Base Endowment Inc.. The mission of VLDB is to promote and exchange scholarly work in databases and related fields throughout the world...

 and SIGMOD
SIGMOD
SIGMOD is the Association for Computing Machinery's Special Interest Group on Management of Data, which specializes in large-scale data management problems and databases....

. He won the SIGMOD Edgar F. Codd Innovations Award
SIGMOD Edgar F. Codd Innovations Award
The ACM SIGMOD Edgar F. Codd Innovations Award is a lifetime research achievement award given by the ACM Special Interest Group on Management of Data, at its yearly flagship conference...

 in 1994, and in 2011 with Jayant Madhavan and Erhard Rahm the VLDB 10 Year Best Paper Award for their VLDB 2001 paper "Generic Schema Matching with Cupid".

Bernstein is a member of the National Academy of Engineering
National Academy of Engineering
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 (elected 2003) and an elected Fellow of the Association for Computing Machinery
Association for Computing Machinery
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.

He is a co-Editor-in-Chief of the International Journal on Very Large Data Bases. and a member of the National Academies
United States National Academies
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Board on Mathematical Sciences and their Applications.

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