Philippe Cudré-Mauroux is a postdoctoral scholar working in the Database Systems group at MIT. He received his Ph.D. from the Swiss Federal Institute of Technology EPFL, where he won both the Doctorate Award and the EPFL Press Mention in 2007 for his work on emergent semantics systems. Before joining MIT, Philippe worked on distributed information systems for HP, IBM T.J. Watson, and Microsoft Research Asia. His research interests are in large-scale infrastructures for non-relational data and in decentralized, bottom-up data integration techniques.