Renée J. Miller

We are accepting applications for new members of the Data Intelligence Lab at all levels (undergraduate, graduate, post-doc, and faculty). Undergraduates are advised to apply before beginning of March.

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 and AAAS. 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 colleagues received the ICDT Test-of-Time Award and the 2020 Alonzo Church Alonzo Church Award for Outstanding Contributions to Logic and Computation for their influential work establishing the foundations of data exchange. For her body of work, she has received the CS Canada Lifetime Achievement Award in Computer Science. Professor Miller served as president of the non-profit Very Large Data Base (VLDB) Foundation and an Editor-in-Chief of the VLDB Journal. She received her PhD in Computer Science from the University of Wisconsin, Madison and bachelor’s degrees in Mathematics and in Cognitive Science from MIT.