Isabel Cruz

American Portuguese computer scientist (died 2021)

Isabel Cruz

Born|

Lisbon, Portugal

Died| September 19, 2021
Alma mater| University of Toronto
Occupation| Computer scientist
Awards|

* AAAS Fellow
* UIC Distinguished Professor

Scientific career
Fields| Computer Science
Institutions|

* University of Illinois Chicago
* Brown University
* University of Toronto

Doctoral advisor| Alberto O. Mendelzon
Other academic advisors| Paris Kanellakis (postdoctoral)
Website| https://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[edit]

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[edit]

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[edit]

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

## See also[edit]

* Women in computing

## References[edit]

1. ^ a b "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. ^ a b c Tamassia, Roberto. "Isabel Cruz". Retrieved May 25, 2023.
3. ^ a b Cohen, Adam D. (November 26, 2019), AAAS Announces Leading Scientists Elected as 2019 Fellows, American Association for the Advancement of Science
4. ^ a b "Five UIC researchers recognized as AAAS fellows", UIC Today, University of Illinois at Chicago, November 27, 2019

## External links[edit]

* Isabel Cruz at DBLP Bibliography Server
* Isabel Cruz publications indexed by Google Scholar
* Isabel Cruz's publications indexed by the Scopus bibliographic database. (subscription required)

Authority control databases

International|

* ISNI
* VIAF

National|

* Norway
* Israel
* United States
* Czech Republic
* Croatia
* Netherlands

Academics|

* Association for Computing Machinery
* DBLP
* Google Scholar
* Mathematics Genealogy Project
* ORCID
* Scopus
* zbMATH

Other|

* IdRef