Renée J. Miller
CitizenshipUnited States
Alma materUniversity of Wisconsin in Madison
AwardsFellow of the Royal Society of Canada, Fellow of the Association for Computing Machinery, Presidential Early Career Award for Scientists and Engineers
Scientific career
FieldsComputer science
InstitutionsNortheastern University University of Toronto
Doctoral advisorYannis Ioannidis

Renée J. Miller FRSC is University Distinguished Professor at Northeastern University,[1] a former professor of Computer Science at University of Toronto, Canada, and a Fellow of the Royal Society of Canada.

Background

She received BS degrees in Mathematics and in Cognitive Science from the Massachusetts Institute of Technology. She received her MS and PhD degrees in Computer Science from the University of Wisconsin in Madison, United States. She received the Presidential Early Career Award for Scientists and Engineers (PECASE), the highest honor bestowed by the United States government on outstanding scientists and engineers beginning their careers.[2] She received the National Science Foundation Early Career Award (formerly, the Presidential Young Investigator Award) for her work on Data Integration.[3] She was elected as a Fellow of the Association for Computing Machinery (ACM) in 2010,[4] and a Fellow of the Royal Society of Canada in 2011.[5] She is the President of the VLDB Endowment,[6] and the Program Chair for ACM SIGMOD 2011 in Athens, Greece.[7] Her research interests are in the efficient, effective use of large volumes of complex, heterogeneous data. This interest spans data integration, data exchange, knowledge curation and data sharing.

References

  1. ↑ Renée Miller – CCIS, Northeastern University, accessed 2018-10-29
  2. ↑ "The Presidential Early Career Award for Scientists and Engineers (PECASE) Program Description". Retrieved July 21, 2010.
  3. ↑ "Twenty NSF-Supported Young Scientists and Engineers Receive Presidential Award (Press Release 97-065)". October 24, 1997. Retrieved July 21, 2010.
  4. ↑ "ACM Fellow Citation, Renee J. Miller". Retrieved July 21, 2010.
  5. ↑ "Miller Named Fellow of the Royal Society of Canada". Retrieved June 28, 2011.
  6. ↑ "The VLDB Endowment Board of Trustees". Retrieved July 21, 2010.
  7. ↑ "2011 ACM SIGMOD/PODS Conference". Retrieved July 21, 2010.
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