Renée Miller

Renée J. Miller is a university distinguished professor at Northeastern University, a former professor of computer science at the University of Toronto, Canada, and a Fellow of the Royal Society of Canada. She received BS degrees in mathematics and in cognitive science from the Massachusetts Institute of Technology and MS and PhD degrees in computer science from the University of Wisconsin in Madison. She has been president of the VLDB Endowment and program chair of ACM SIGMOD 2011 in Athens, Greece. Her research interests are in the efficient, effective use of large volumes of complex, heterogeneous data, spanning data integration, data exchange, knowledge curation and data sharing. She received the Presidential Early Career Award for Scientists and Engineers and the National Science Foundation Early Career Award for her work on data integration, was elected a Fellow of the ACM in 2010 and of the Royal Society of Canada in 2011, and in 2023 was elected a Fellow of the American Association for the Advancement of Science.