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Michael Cafarella

Michael Cafarella

D-Index & Metrics

Computer Science

D-Index
43
Citations
10852
World Ranking
7829
National Ranking
3388

Michael Cafarella publication distribution in Computer Science in 2026

The chart shows the distribution of publications by all Research.com ranked scientists in the field of Computer Science in 2026. The highlighted bar marks where Michael Cafarella sits on this spectrum.

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32 publications 991+

This scientist: 113 publications — 12th percentile

12% of scientists in this discipline score the same or lower.

The last bar groups every scientist with 991 publications or more.

Michael Cafarella D-index placement in Computer Science in 2026

The chart shows the D-index (discipline H-index) distribution of Computer Science scientists ranked by Research.com in 2026. The highlighted bar marks where Michael Cafarella sits on this spectrum.

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This scientist: 43 D-Index — 46th percentile

46% of scientists in this discipline score the same or lower.

The last bar groups every scientist with 131 D-Index or more.

Research.com Recognitions

  • 2016 - Fellow of Alfred P. Sloan Foundation

Overview

Michael Cafarella is affiliated with MIT in the United States and has contributed extensively to the field of computer science, focusing on various subfields and specialized topics. Their research includes a significant number of publications, primarily in prominent venues such as arXiv (Cornell University) and the Proceedings of the VLDB Endowment.

The main field of study for Michael Cafarella is Computer Science, with 83 publications attributed to this area. Their work spans several subfields, including:

  • Artificial Intelligence (26 publications)
  • Computer Networks and Communications (25 publications)
  • Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition (15 publications)
  • Information Systems (10 publications)
  • Management Science and Operations Research (6 publications)

Michael Cafarella's research emphasizes topics related to Cloud Computing and Resource Management, Distributed Systems and Fault Tolerance, Data Quality and Management, Advanced Data Storage Technologies, Topic Modeling, Scientific Computing and Data Management, and Bayesian Modeling and Causal Inference.

Their recent notable papers include:

  • "Unnatural Language Processing: Bridging the Gap Between Synthetic and Natural Language Data" (2020, arXiv (Cornell University))
  • "Leveraging Noisy Lists for Social Feed Ranking" (2021, Proceedings of the International AAAI Conference on Web and Social Media)
  • "DBOS" (2021, Proceedings of the VLDB Endowment)
  • "Causal Data Integration" (2023, Proceedings of the VLDB Endowment)

Frequent co-authors include:

  • Samuel Madden (11 collaborations)
  • Michael Stonebraker (10 collaborations)
  • Brit Youngmann (8 collaborations)
  • Tim Kraska (7 collaborations)
  • Matei Zaharia (7 collaborations)

Michael Cafarella's work is most often published in the following venues:

  • arXiv (Cornell University) with 20 publications
  • Proceedings of the VLDB Endowment with 11 publications
  • Proceedings of the ACM on Management of Data with 3 publications
  • SSRN Electronic Journal with 2 publications
  • AI Magazine with 2 publications

In recognition of their contributions, Michael Cafarella was awarded the title of Fellow of the Alfred P. Sloan Foundation in 2016.

Best Publications

  • Unsupervised named-entity extraction from the Web: An experimental study

    Oren Etzioni;Michael Cafarella;Doug Downey;Ana-Maria Popescu

  • Open information extraction from the web

    Michele Banko;Michael J. Cafarella;Stephen Soderland;Matt Broadhead

  • Web-scale information extraction in knowitall: (preliminary results)

    Oren Etzioni;Michael Cafarella;Doug Downey;Stanley Kok

  • WebTables: exploring the power of tables on the web

    Michael J. Cafarella;Alon Halevy;Daisy Zhe Wang;Eugene Wu

  • TextRunner: Open Information Extraction on the Web

    Alexander Yates;Michele Banko;Matthew Broadhead;Michael Cafarella

  • Theoretical Limits of Hydrogen Storage in Metal–Organic Frameworks: Opportunities and Trade-Offs

    Jacob Goldsmith;Antek G. Wong-Foy;Michael J. Cafarella;Donald J. Siegel

  • Using Social Media to Measure Labor Market Flows

    Dolan Antenucci;Michael Cafarella;Margaret Levenstein;Christopher Ré

  • Data integration for the relational web

    Michael J. Cafarella;Alon Halevy;Nodira Khoussainova

  • Automatic optimization for MapReduce programs

    Eaman Jahani;Michael J. Cafarella;Christopher Ré

  • Ontology-driven information extraction with OntoSyphon

    Luke K. Mcdowell;Michael Cafarella

  • Uncovering the Relational Web

    Michael J. Cafarella;Alon Y. Halevy;Yang Zhang;Daisy Zhe Wang

  • Machine reading

    Oren Etzioni;Michele Banko;Michael J. Cafarella

  • Methods for domain-independent information extraction from the web: an experimental comparison

    Oren Etzioni;Michael Cafarella;Doug Downey;Ana-Maria Popescu

  • KnowItNow: Fast, Scalable Information Extraction from the Web

    Michael J. Cafarella;Doug Downey;Stephen Soderland;Oren Etzioni

  • Brainwash: A data system for feature engineering

    Michael R. Anderson;Dolan Antenucci;Victor Bittorf;Matthew Burgess

  • Building Nutch: Open Source Search: A case study in writing an open source search engine

    Mike Cafarella;Doug Cutting

  • A search engine for natural language applications

    Michael J. Cafarella;Oren Etzioni

  • Structured data on the web

    Michael J. Cafarella;Alon Halevy;Jayant Madhavan

  • Foofah: Transforming Data By Example

    Zhongjun Jin;Michael R. Anderson;Michael Cafarella;H. V. Jagadish

  • Structured querying of web text

    Michael J. Cafarella;Christopher Ré;Dan Suciu;Oren Etzioni

  • Methods for domain-independent information extraction from the web

    Oren Etzioni;Michael Cafarella;Doug Downey;Ana Maria Popescu

Frequent Co-Authors

Christopher Ré
Christopher Ré Stanford University
Oren Etzioni
Oren Etzioni University of Washington
Hosagrahar V. Jagadish
Hosagrahar V. Jagadish University of Michigan–Ann Arbor
Alon Halevy
Alon Halevy Facebook (United States)
Stephen Soderland
Stephen Soderland University of Washington
Thomas F. Wenisch
Thomas F. Wenisch University of Michigan–Ann Arbor
Jayant Madhavan
Jayant Madhavan Google (United States)
Matthew D. Shapiro
Matthew D. Shapiro University of Michigan–Ann Arbor

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