Tova Milo

Tova Milo^[1] is a full Professor of Computer Science at Tel Aviv University.^[2] She served as the head of the Computer Science Department from 2011-2014.^[3] Milo is the head of the data management group in Tel Aviv University,^[4] and her research focuses on Web data management. She received her PhD from the Hebrew University in 1992 under the supervision of Catriel Beeri, and was a postdoctoral fellow at the University of Toronto and INRIA, France, prior to joining Tel Aviv University.^[5]

Milo has co-authored over 200 papers in top database conferences and journals, as well as a book on business processes,^[6] with over 8700 citations and H-Index 46 (computed by Google Scholar^[7]). Milo is one of the most prolific authors in the premier Symposium on Principles of Database Systems^[8] and was the first (and only, as of 2015) woman to be a keynote speaker at this symposium.^[9] In 2010, Milo and her co-authors Victor Vianu and Dan Suciu won the Alberto O. Mendelzon Test-of-Time Award for their paper on type checking for XML transformation languages.^[10]

Milo has served on the editorial board of top database journals (VLDB journal^[11] and TODS^[12]) and as the Program Committee Chair of (among others) the Symposium on Principles of Database Systems, the International Conference on Database Theory (ICDT),^[13] as well as the VLDB conference. She is a member of the ICDT Council^[14] and the VLDB endowment.^[15]

In 2012 Milo was elected as a ACM Fellow for her "contributions to database theory and business process management".^[16] In 2014 she was elected as a member of the Academy of Europe, Academia Europaea.^[17]

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