Turkish American Professor Zehra Meral Ozsoyoglu is the recipient of the 2018 Association for Computing Machinery (ACM) Special Interest Group on Management of Data (SIGMOD) Contributions Award.
The SIGMOD Contributions Award is given for significant contributions to the field of database systems through research funding, education, and professional services. Professor Meral Özsoyoğlu receives this award for her dedicated service to the database community, especially as editor-in-chief for ACM Transactions on Database Systems (TODS) and Proceedings of Very Large Databases Conferences (PVLDB), the VLDB Endowment and acting as PC chair for VLDB PC and Principles of Database Systems (PODS).
Zehra Meral Ozsoyoglu is currently Andrew R. Jennings Professor Emeritus of Computer Science at Case Western Reserve University, in Cleveland, Ohio, where she has been a professor of Computer Science since 1980. She has also served as department chair of Electrical Engineering and Computer Science Department. Meral Ozsoyoglu's primary work and research interests are in the areas of query languages and query processing, data models, and index structures in databases, including scientific databases, bioinformatics and medical informatics.
Ozsoyoglu is an ACM Fellow, recipient of the IBM Faculty Award, NSF Faculty Award for Women, a Distinguished Alumni Award from University of Alberta, Spotlight on Women Scholarship in Engineering award, and Faculty Distinguished Research Award, Case Western Reserve University (2013) and awards from IEEE and ACM for contributions to program committees of conferences.
