Renée J. Miller

Renée J. Miller received her PhD in Computer Science from the University of Wisconsin, Madison, and Bachelor’s degrees in Mathematics and Cognitive Science from MIT.

She is a Fellow of the Royal Society of Canada, Canada’s National Academy of Science, Engineering and the Humanities. She received the US 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 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 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. With Fagin, Kolaitis, Popa, and Tan she received the 2020 Alonzo Church Award for Outstanding Contributions to Logic and Computation. In 2020, she received the CS Canada Lifetime Achievement Award in Computer Science. Professor Miller has been a leader among her peers in Canada and abroad, she has led the NSERC Business Intelligence Strategic Network and the non-profit International Very Large Data Base Foundation.

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.