Isabel Cruz
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Professor Isabel F. Cruz Distinguished Professor, Researcher | |
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| Born | Lisbon (Lisboa), Portugal |
| Died | 2021-09-21 |
| Occupation | Researcher |
| Organization | The University of Illinois at Chicago |
| Spouse | Roberto Tamassia |
Prof. Isabel F. Cruz (birthdate – 2021) was a distinguished professor[1] and a professor of computer science at The University of Illinois at Chicago. She holds a PhD in computer science from the University of Toronto. Her research interests include big data, artificial intelligence, geographic information systems, information visualization, and computer security. She has made pioneering contributions to visual query languages, graph query languages, information integration, and information visualization.
Professional Biography
Professor Cruz has been Program Committee chair 17 times, including of top conferences in her areas of expertise, namely IEEE ICDE, ISWC, and ACM SIGSPATIAL. Her work has been supported by grants from NSF, ARDA/IARPA, NIH, the Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation, and the Bloomberg Philanthropies.
She has introduced new courses in the data science curriculum at UIC, namely Introduction to Data Science, Big Data Mining, and Data and Web Semantics (Knowledge Graphs). She contributed to the NSF-funded WISEST (Women in Science and Engineering System Transformation) project at UIC from 2003 to 2012.
She is in the academic tree of Jeff Ullman[2]
Published works
She has published more than 140 research papers. Her open source ontology matching systems, AgreementMaker and AgreementMakerLight, have dominated a competitive field since 2009 and received the IBM research prize in 2017.
Honours, decorations, awards and distinctions
Professor Cruz was a Fellow of the American Association for the Advancement of Science. She received an NSF CAREER Award in 1996. She was recognized as University of Illinois Scholar from 2011 to 2014 and as UIC Distinguished Researcher of the Year in natural sciences and engineering in 2017. She was appointed member of the Mapping Science Committee of the National Academies from 2004 to 2006.
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External links
- Cruz's home page at UIC
- Isabel Cruz publications indexed by Google Scholar
- Isabel Cruz at DBLP Bibliography Server