Isabel Cruz
Born
Lisbon, Portugal
DiedSeptember 19, 2021
Alma materUniversity of Toronto
OccupationComputer scientist
Awards
  • AAAS Fellow
  • UIC Distinguished Professor
Scientific career
FieldsComputer Science
Institutions
Doctoral advisorAlberto O. Mendelzon
Other academic advisorsParis Kanellakis (postdoctoral)
Websitehttps://www.cs.uic.edu/Cruz/

Isabel Cruz (aka Isabel F. Cruz, Maria Isabel Cruz) (died 2021) was an American Portuguese computer scientist known for her research on databases, knowledge representation, geographic information systems, AI, visual languages, graph drawing, user interfaces, multimedia, information retrieval, and security. She was a University of Illinois Chicago Distinguished Professor[1] and a Professor Computer Science in the College of Engineering at the University of Illinois Chicago. She was a Fellow of the American Association for the Advancement of Science.

Life

Cruz was born in Lisbon. completed a MS (1987) and PhD (1993) in computer science at the University of Toronto advised by Alberto O. Mendelzon. She conducted her postdoctoral research at Brown University advised by Paris Kanellakis.[2] She was the recipient of a National Science Foundation CAREER Award in 1996. Cruz joined the University of Illinois Chicago College of Engineering in 2001. She was elected Fellow of the American Association for the Advancement of Science in 2019[3][4] and was appointed UIC Distinguished Professor in 2020.[1] Cruz's research focused on databases, big data, geographic information systems, Semantic Web, and knowledge representation.

She died on September 19, 2021.[2]

Recognition

Fellow of the American Association for the Advancement of Science,[3] elected "for her distinguished contributions to visual query languages, information integration and visualization, geospatial computing and for professional leadership in the data management community".[4]

University of Illinois Chicago Distinguished Professor

University of Illinois Faculty Scholar Award

University of Illinois Chicago Great Cities Institute Faculty Scholar Award

University of Illinois Chicago College of Engineering Faculty Research Award

University of Illinois Chicago Teaching Recognition Program Award

Association for Computing Machinery Recognition of Service Award

National Science Foundation CAREER Award

Personal life

Cruz was married to Roberto Tamassia, also a noted computer scientist.[2]

See also

References

  1. 1 2 "UIC Distinguished Professors | and a Professor of Computer Science the Department of Computer Science, College of Engineering |, at the University of Illinois Chicago". engineering.uic.edu. Retrieved September 22, 2021.
  2. 1 2 3 Tamassia, Roberto. "Isabel Cruz". Retrieved May 25, 2023.
  3. 1 2 Cohen, Adam D. (November 26, 2019), AAAS Announces Leading Scientists Elected as 2019 Fellows, American Association for the Advancement of Science
  4. 1 2 "Five UIC researchers recognized as AAAS fellows", UIC Today, University of Illinois at Chicago, November 27, 2019
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