Sihem Amer-Yahia is an Algerian-French-American computer scientist. She is a CNRS Research Director at the Laboratoire d’Informatique de Grenoble. She leads the SLIDE research team.[1] Sihem Amer-Yahia works on data management,[2] declarative languages and query processing algorithms. Her publication topics include crowdsourcing, computational complexity, data analysis, data handling, data visualisation, information science, and addresses new data management problems in emerging internet and big data applications.[3]
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| Alma mater | INRIA |
| Awards | CNRS Silver Medal (2020) Association for Computing Machinery Distinguished Member (2017) |
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| Fields | Computer science |
| Institutions | CNRS, University of Grenoble Alpes |
Early life and education
editAmer-Yahia received her Ph.D. in CS from Paris-Orsay and INRIA in 1999,[4] and her Diplôme d’Ingénieur from INI, Algeria.
Career
editBefore joining CNRS, Amer-Yahia served as a Principal Scientist at QCRI, Senior Scientist at Yahoo! Research[5] and Member of Technical Staff at AT&T Labs.[6]
Amer-Yahia served on several journal boards including the SIGMOD Executive Committee.[7] She is one of the trustees emeriti of the VLDB Endowment.[8]
Amer-Yahia also served on the EDBT (Extending Database Technology) Board, and was the program committee chair of the EDBT conference in 2014.[9] She is the Editor-in-Chief of the VLDB Journal for Europe and Africa.[10]
She was an associate editor of ACM TODS, her term ending in 2017,[11] and she has been an area editor for the Information Systems Journal.[12]
Awards and honours
editIn 2024, Amer-Yahia received the VLDB VLDB Endowment Women in Database Research Award.[13]
In 2024, Amer-Yahia received the ACM SIGMOD ACM SIGMOD Contributions Award for her contributions towards diversity, equity, and inclusion in the professional database research community.[14]
In 2024, Amer-Yahia received the IEEE TCDE Impact Award.[15]
In 2020, Amer-Yahia received the CNRS Silver Medal.[16]
In 2017, Amer-Yahia was recognised as an ACM distinguished member.[17]
References
edit- ^ "Sihem Amer-Yahia | Laboratoire d'Informatique de Grenoble". Retrieved 2020-03-08.
- ^ "BICOD 2017". www.dcs.bbk.ac.uk. Retrieved 2020-03-08.
- ^ "Sihem Amer-Yahia as an IEEE author". Retrieved 2020-03-08.
- ^ Amer-Yahia, Sihem (1999-01-01). Du chargement en masse dans une base de donnees (en general) et de la migration relationnel-objet (en particulier) (thesis thesis). Paris 11.
- ^ "SIGIR'07 - Tutorial 2H: XML Retrieval: Integrated IR-DB Challenges and Solutions". www.sigir.org. Retrieved 2020-03-08.
- ^ "Sihem Amer-Yahia - Home". dl.acm.org. Retrieved 2020-03-08.
- ^ "SIGMOD Officers, Committees, and Awardees" (PDF). Retrieved 2020-03-08.
- ^ "Board of Trustees". www.vldb.org. Retrieved 2020-03-08.
- ^ "EDBT website". Retrieved 2020-03-08.
- ^ "The VLDB Journal". Springer. Retrieved 2020-03-08.
- ^ "TODS Other Information". dl.acm.org. Retrieved 2020-03-08.
- ^ Information Systems Editorial Board.
- ^ "LIG - Université Grenoble Alpes - Sihem Amer-Yahia". www.liglab.fr. Retrieved 2024-03-01.
- ^ "LIG - Université Grenoble Alpes - Sihem Amer-Yahia". www.liglab.fr. Retrieved 2024-03-01.
- ^ "LIG - Université Grenoble Alpes - Sihem Amer-Yahia". www.liglab.fr. Retrieved 2024-03-01.
- ^ "Médailles d'argent 2020 | CNRS" (in French). CNRS. 13 February 2020. Retrieved 2020-03-08.
- ^ "Sihem Amer-Yahia". awards.acm.org. Retrieved 2020-03-08.
External links
edit- Sihem Amer-Yahia publications indexed by Google Scholar
