Renée J. Miller

Renée J. Miller is a Professor and Canada Excellence Research Chair in Data Intelligence at the Cheriton School of Computer Science at the University of Waterloo. Renée is a Fellow of the Royal Society of Canada, Canada’s national academy of science, engineering, and the humanities. She received the U.S. 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. She also received an NSF CAREER Award, the Ontario Premier’s Research Excellence Award, and an IBM Faculty Award. She has been named the Bell Canada Chair of Information Systems and is a Fellow of the ACM. Her work has focused on the long-standing open problem of data integration and has achieved the goal of building practical data integration systems. She and her co-authors (Fagin, Kolaitis, and Popa) received the 10-Year ICDT Test-of-Time Award for their influential 2003 paper establishing the foundations of data exchange. Professor Miller has been a leader among her peers in Canada and abroad; she has led the NSERC Business Intelligence Network and the non-profit International Very Large Data Base Foundation. She received her Ph.D. in Computer Science from the University of Wisconsin–Madison and bachelor’s degrees in Mathematics and Cognitive Science from MIT.