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, a world-renowned pioneer in database systems, has been recognized with , Canada’s computer science academic association.

The award recognizes current or former faculty members in Canadian computer science departments, schools, and faculties who have made “outstanding and sustained contributions” to the field over the course of their careers.

Miller is acclaimed for contributing novel and significant research in the areas of data integration, schema mappings, and data quality, while also creating tools to integrate, transform, query, and analyze information. In 2008, she launched an initiative to establish a network of Canadian researchers to advance Business Intelligence (BI) that included top Canadian academic database groups as well as industry-leading software companies in Canada and abroad, making Canada a hotbed for BI research.

“Professor Miller’s scholarly and applied research has been outstanding in quality, quantity, and breadth. Her research profile is unique in that it combines theoretical elegance, reflected by citations and scholarly awards, with industrial impact, reflected by patents and successful industrial products,” said Professor Marsha Chechik, chair of the department of computer science. “She has the insights and intuitions needed to ask the right questions, to make the right assumptions, and to conduct elegant research that has an impact on the research community as well as database practice.”