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Researcher

Graham Cormode

Graham Cormode works on streaming algorithms, data sketches, privacy and machine learning over large datasets. He earned a computer-science PhD at Warwick in 2002 and held research posts at DIMACS, Bell Labs and AT&T before becoming Warwick Professor in 2013; he also coauthored a Count-Min Sketch paper in 2004. In 2010, he coauthored research on anonymizing bipartite graphs, and he received the 2017 Adams Prize for statistical analysis of data. His 2020 book with Ke Yi explains compact data summaries. Since January 2026, he is Professor of Computer Science at Oxford and leads AI Futures at the Oxford-UBS Centre for Applied AI.

Born
1977
Works
388
Citations
24,085
h-index
64
Badges

Years link to their sources. Publication numbers from OpenAlex, as of 22 October 2026.

Timeline

  1. 2000–2013

    A PhD and research posts

    During summer 2000, he interns at AT&T Shannon research labs and earns a PhD in Warwick's Department of Computer Science in 2002. His postdoctoral fellowship at DIMACS, the Center for Discrete Mathematics and Theoretical Computer Science at Rutgers, runs from 2002 to 2004. He researches at Bell Laboratories' Internet Management Research Department from 2004 to 2006 and at AT&T Labs–Research from 2006 to 2013.

  2. 2004–2010

    Count-Min Sketch and graph privacy

    In 2004, he and S. Muthukrishnan publish An Improved Data Stream Summary: The Count-Min Sketch and Its Applications. In 2010, he coauthors Anonymizing Bipartite Graph Data Using Safe Groupings, which introduces groupings that preserve graph structure while anonymizing the mapping from entities to nodes.

  3. 2013–2025

    Professor at Warwick

    He serves as Professor of Computer Science in Warwick's Department of Computer Science from 2013 to 2025.

  4. 2017

    The Adams Prize

    In 2017, he receives the Adams Prize in Mathematics for his work on statistical analysis of data.

  5. 2020

    Small Summaries for Big Data

    In 2020, he and Ke Yi publish Small Summaries for Big Data, a book on compact data summaries, sketches, approximate counts, and summaries for graphs and distributed data.

  6. By 2025

    Research at Meta and Simons

    By 2025, his research career includes positions at Meta and the Simons Institute for the Theory of Computing.

  7. January 2026

    Professor at Oxford

    In January 2026, he takes up the Professorship of Computer Science at the University of Oxford and a Professorial Fellowship at St John's College. He is a Governing Body fellow of St John's College.

  8. July 2026

    AI Futures at Oxford-UBS

    In July 2026, he is appointed Research Theme Lead for AI Futures at the Oxford-UBS Centre for Applied AI. His research spans privacy, machine learning on massive data, and scalable computation over distributed and streaming data.

Career

  1. Since 2026University of OxfordProfessor of Computer Science
  2. 2021–2023Meta
  3. 2013–2025University of WarwickProfessor of Computer Science
  4. 2004–2006Bell LabsResearcher
  5. 2002–2004Rutgers UniversityPostdoctoral Fellow
  6. 2002–2007NEC
  7. 2000–2013AT&TIntern, Researcher
  8. 1999–2002Case Western Reserve University

Education

  1. 2002University of WarwickPhD

From the biography and OpenAlex affiliations (the years of papers that list the organization), so some years are approximate.

  1. 16% of AI career moves in the 2020s went from a university to a companyIncludes Graham Cormode. We estimate that 16% of AI career moves in the 2020s went from a university to a company; 29% of moves starting at a university went to a company, and 76% ended the university role.
  2. The company share of AI researchers’ top papers was 31% in 2020–2024 and 8% in 1970–1974Includes University of Oxford. We estimate where the people shaping AI worked when their most-cited papers appeared: the company share was 31% in 2020–2024 and 8% in 1970–1974, and Google led all organizations in 2020–2024.
  3. The median h-index is 48 at universities and 14 at frontier AI labsIncludes University of Oxford. The median h-index is 48 at universities and 14 at frontier AI labs. We compare publishing careers, recent citations, dual appointments and job moves across 2,420 university researchers and 308 frontier-lab researchers.
  4. Companies supply the most prior-work hires at 7 of the 9 frontier AI labsIncludes University of Oxford. Our estimates of the organizations where 550 people worked directly before joining 9 frontier AI labs across 620 career transitions, comparing the main feeder organizations per lab.

Colleagues

People with dated positions at the same organization in the same years.

Sources and credits

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  1. Graham Cormode - Research cs.ox.ac.uk. Checked 21 October 2026.
  2. Graham Cormode, Professor of Computer Science | St John's College, Oxford sjc.ox.ac.uk. Checked 21 October 2026.
  3. Anonymizing bipartite graph data using safe groupings researchportal.hbku.edu.qa. Checked 21 October 2026.
  4. Small Summaries for Big Data cambridge.org. Checked 21 October 2026.
  5. Graham Cormode | Department of Computer Science cs.ox.ac.uk. Checked 21 October 2026.
  6. Professor Graham Cormode joins Oxford-UBS Centre for Applied AI as Research Theme Lead cs.ox.ac.uk. Checked 21 October 2026.