Fatma

Fatma Özcan is a Principal Software Engineer at Google. Prior to that, she was a Distinguished Research Staff Member and a senior manager at IBM Almaden Research Center. Her current research focuses on platforms and infra-structure for large-scale data analysis, knowledge graphs, democratizing analytics via NLQ and conversational interfaces to data, and query processing and optimization of semi-structured data. Dr Özcan got her PhD degree in computer science from University of Maryland, College Park, and her BSc degree in computer engineering from METU, Ankara. She has over 20 years of experience in industrial research, and has delivered core technologies into many IBM products. She is the co-author of the book "Heterogeneous Agent Systems", and co-author of several conference papers and patents. She is an elected member of the SIGMOD Executive Committee, and is on the board of trustees for the VLDB Endowment and Computing Research Association. She is an ACM Distinguished Member.