McSherry's areas of research include distributed computing and information privacy.
McSherry is known, along with Cynthia Dwork, Adam D. Smith, and Kobbi Nissim, as one of the co-inventors of differential privacy, for which he won the 2017 Gödel Prize.
[3] McSherry has also made notable contributions to stream processing systems.
[4] In 2019, he founded a startup company for streaming databases called Materialize,[5][6] where he is currently chief scientist.
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