Laura Haas - WiE Conference Keynote Speaker
Fellow and Director
IBM Research
Laura Haas is an IBM Fellow and Director of IBM Research鈥檚
Accelerated Discovery Lab. She was Director of Computer Science at IBM鈥檚 Almaden Research
Center from 2005 to 2011, and had worldwide responsibility for IBM Research鈥檚 exploratory
science program from 2009 through 2013. From 2001鈥�2005, she led the Information Integration
Solutions architecture and development
teams in IBM's Software Group. Previously, Dr. Haas was a research staff member and
manager at Almaden. She is best known for her work on the Starburst query processor,
from which DB2 LUW was developed, on Garlic, a system which allowed integration of
heterogeneous data sources, and on Clio, the first semi-automatic tool for heterogeneous
schema mapping. She has received several IBM awards for Outstanding Innovation and
Technical Achievement, an IBM Corporate Award for information integration technology,
the Anita Borg Institute Technical Leadership Award, and the ACM SIGMOD Codd Innovation
Award. Dr. Haas was Vice President of the VLDB Endowment Board of Trustees from 2004-2009,
and served on the board of the Computing Research Association from 2007鈥�2016 (vice
chair 2009鈥�2015); she currently serves on the National Academies Computer Science
and Telecommunications Board (2013鈥�2019). She is an ACM Fellow, a member of the National
Academy of Engineering, the IBM Academy of Technology, and a Fellow of the American
Academy of Arts and Sciences.
