Prof. Renée J. Miller
Fellow
Current Employer
University of Toronto and University of Waterloo
Election Year
2011
Academy
Academy of Science
Discipline
Mathematics and Computer Sciences
Department
Computer Science
Keywords
Computer science, database, data integration
Professor Renée Miller is world-renowned as a pioneer in the field of Database Systems, a core topic for Computer Science. Her work has focused on the long-standing open problem of data integration and has achieved the goal of building practical data integration systems. At the same time, Professor Miller has been a leader among her peers in Canada and abroad, spearheading research and research activity. Her profile is unique in that it combines gracefully theoretical elegance, reflected by citations and scholarly awards, with industrial impact, reflected by patents and successful industrial products.