Isabel F. Cruz Biographical Sketch

Biographical sketch

Isabel Cruz is an Associate Professor in the Department of Computer Science, College of Engineering, at the University of Illinois at Chicago. She holds PhD and MS degrees in Computer Science from the University of Toronto [*]. In 1996 she received a National Science Foundation CAREER Award, in 2000 the Best Paper Award at the IEEE Symposium on Visual Languages, and in 2005 the College of Engineering Faculty Research Award. She received several other awards for research, teaching, and service, including a Government of Canada Award for Research, the Teaching Recognition Program Award from the UIC Council for Excellence in Teaching and Learning, and the Association for Computing Machinery Recognition of Service Award. She has been invited to give more than 50 talks worldwide and has more than 80 refereed publications in Databases, Semantic Web, Visual Languages, Graph Drawing, User Interfaces, Multimedia, Geographic Information Systems, Information Retrieval, and Security.

She has served on more than 110 program committees including those of the main conferences in databases, multimedia, visual languages, and web such as ACM SIGMOD, VLDB, the IEEE International Conference on Data Engineering, ACM Multimedia (once as associate chair), IEEE Visual Languages, ISWC, ESWC, and WWW. She has been the program committee co-chair to 11 international conferences and workshops, including in 2001 the International Semantic Web Working Symposium, in 2003 the VLDB International Semantic Web and Databases Workshop, in 2005 the First International Conference on GeoSpatial Semantics, and in 2006 the Fifth International Semantic Web Conference, and is a founding member of the Semantic Web Science Foundation Steering Committee. Among several editorial and advisory board activities, she is the Founding Editor of the ACM SIGMOD Digital Symposium Collection since 1998, a co-editor of the book The Emerging Semantic Web, and a former member of the National Academies Mapping Science Committee.

Her research has been funded by the National Science Foundation, the Department of Defense, NATO, CRA, and corporate gifts. She has advised several students [**] in their PhD, Master, and Senior theses. She works regularly with undergraduate students and has co-authored papers with 13 of them.

She has been the WISEST (Women in Science and Engineering System Transformation) Facilitator for the Department of Computer Science, since 2002 [***]. The goal of WISEST is to increase the number, participation and leadership status of women in academic science and engineering through institutional transformation at UIC. The WISEST program is funded by an NSF ADVANCE grant.

Academic genealogy PhD Advisor in Toronto: Alberto Mendelzon [****]. Through Alberto, I belong to the academic tree of Jeff Ullman.
Postdoc Mentor at Brown: Paris Kanellakis [*****]

City/country of origin Lisbon (Lisboa), Portugal

Logos A few logos I have designed for fun.

Other I am an avid runner, cross-country skier, swimmer, classical music listener, and reader.

	Biographical sketch	Isabel Cruz is an Associate Professor in the Department of Computer Science, College of Engineering, at the University of Illinois at Chicago. She holds PhD and MS degrees in Computer Science from the University of Toronto []. In 1996 she received a National Science Foundation CAREER Award, in 2000 the Best Paper Award at the IEEE Symposium on Visual Languages, and in 2005 the College of Engineering Faculty Research Award. She received several other awards for research, teaching, and service, including a Government of Canada Award for Research, the Teaching Recognition Program Award from the UIC Council for Excellence in Teaching and Learning, and the Association for Computing Machinery Recognition of Service Award. She has been invited to give more than 50 talks worldwide and has more than 80 refereed publications in Databases, Semantic Web, Visual Languages, Graph Drawing, User Interfaces, Multimedia, Geographic Information Systems, Information Retrieval, and Security. She has served on more than 110 program committees including those of the main conferences in databases, multimedia, visual languages, and web such as ACM SIGMOD, VLDB, the IEEE International Conference on Data Engineering, ACM Multimedia (once as associate chair), IEEE Visual Languages, ISWC, ESWC, and WWW. She has been the program committee co-chair to 11 international conferences and workshops, including in 2001 the International Semantic Web Working Symposium, in 2003 the VLDB International Semantic Web and Databases Workshop, in 2005 the First International Conference on GeoSpatial Semantics, and in 2006 the Fifth International Semantic Web Conference, and is a founding member of the Semantic Web Science Foundation Steering Committee. Among several editorial and advisory board activities, she is the Founding Editor of the ACM SIGMOD Digital Symposium Collection since 1998, a co-editor of the book The Emerging Semantic Web, and a former member of the National Academies Mapping Science Committee. Her research has been funded by the National Science Foundation, the Department of Defense, NATO, CRA, and corporate gifts. She has advised several students [] in their PhD, Master, and Senior theses. She works regularly with undergraduate students and has co-authored papers with 13 of them. She has been the WISEST (Women in Science and Engineering System Transformation) Facilitator for the Department of Computer Science, since 2002 [**]. The goal of WISEST is to increase the number, participation and leadership status of women in academic science and engineering through institutional transformation at UIC. The WISEST program is funded by an NSF ADVANCE grant.




	Academic genealogy	PhD Advisor in Toronto: Alberto Mendelzon [**]. Through Alberto, I belong to the academic tree of Jeff Ullman. Postdoc Mentor at Brown: Paris Kanellakis [***]
	City/country of origin	Lisbon (Lisboa), Portugal
	Logos	A few logos I have designed for fun.
	Other	I am an avid runner, cross-country skier, swimmer, classical music listener, and reader.