Tova Milo
{{short description|Israeli computer scientist}}
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| name = Tova Milo
| native_name = טובה מילוא
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| field = Computer science
| work_institution = Tel Aviv University
| alma_mater = Hebrew University
| doctoral_advisor = Catriel Beeri
| known_for = Models and algorithms for web data, semi-structured data and XML, crowd-based data sourcing
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| prizes = The PODS Test-of-Time Award, the Weizmann Award, the VLDB Women in Database Research Award, the IEEE TCDE Impact award and Doctorate Honoris Causa by the University of Zurich
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Tova Milo{{cite web|url=http://www.cs.tau.ac.il/~milo |title=Tova Milo's Homepage |publisher=Cs.tau.ac.il |date= |access-date=2012-08-23}} ({{langx|he|טובה מילוא}}) is a full Professor of Computer Science at Tel Aviv University and the Dean of the Faculty of Exact Sciences.{{cite web|url=http://www.cs.tau.ac.il/|title=ביה"ס למדעי המחשב|website=www.cs.tau.ac.il}} She served as the head of the Computer Science Department from 2011 to 2014.{{cite web|url=http://www.cs.tau.ac.il/contact_us.htm|title=יצירת קשר והגעה|website=www.cs.tau.ac.il}} Milo is the head of the data management group in Tel Aviv University,{{cite web|url=http://www.cs.tau.ac.il/ |title=The Blavatnik School of Computer Science – Tel Aviv University בית ספר למדעי המחשב אוניברסיטת תל אביב |publisher=Cs.tau.ac.il |date= |access-date=2012-08-23}} and her research focuses on Web data management. She received her PhD from the Hebrew University in 1992 under the supervision of Catriel Beeri, and was a postdoctoral fellow at the University of Toronto and INRIA, France, prior to joining Tel Aviv University.{{cite web|url=http://www.cs.tau.ac.il/~milo/chairing-degrees.php |title=Tova Milo |publisher=Cs.tau.ac.il |date= |access-date=2012-08-23}}
Career
Milo has co-authored over 290 papers in top database conferences and journals, as well as a book on business processes,{{cite web|url=http://www.informatik.uni-trier.de/~ley/db/indices/a-tree/m/Milo:Tova.html |title=DBLP: Tova Milo |publisher=Informatik.uni-trier.de |date= |access-date=2012-08-23}} with over 13,000 citations and H-Index 61 (computed by Google Scholar{{cite web|url=https://scholar.google.co.il/citations?user=X1-ovCkAAAAJ&hl=en |title=Tova Milo - Google Scholar Citations |date= |access-date=2012-08-23}}).
Milo is one of the most prolific authors in the premier Symposium on Principles of Database Systems{{cite web|url=http://www.sigmod.org/the-pods-pages/who-are-we |title=Who are we — ACM SIGMOD Official Website |publisher=Sigmod.org |date= |access-date=2012-08-23}} and was the first (and only, as of 2015) woman to be a keynote speaker at this symposium.{{cite web|url=http://www.sigmod.org/the-pods-pages/pods-keynote-speakers |title=PODS Keynote Speakers — ACM SIGMOD Official Website |publisher=Sigmod.org |date= |access-date=2012-08-23}} In 2010, Milo and her co-authors Victor Vianu and Dan Suciu won the Alberto O. Mendelzon Test-of-Time Award for their paper on type checking for XML transformation languages.{{cite web|url=http://www.sigmod.org/the-pods-pages/acm-pods-alberto-o.-mendelzon-test-of-time-award|title=ACM PODS Alberto O. Mendelzon Test-of-Time Award – SIGMOD Website|website=www.sigmod.org}}
Milo has served on the editorial board of top database journals (VLDB journal,{{cite web|url=http://vldb.org/vldb_journal/index.php/editorial-board |title=Editorial Board |publisher=Vldb.org |date=2009-07-18 |access-date=2012-08-23}} and TODS{{cite web|url=http://tods.acm.org/Editors.html |title=ACM Transactions on Database Systems On-line - Editorial Board |publisher=Tods.acm.org |date= |access-date=2012-08-23}}) and as the Program Committee Chair of (among others) the Symposium on Principles of Database Systems, the International Conference on Database Theory (ICDT),{{cite web|url=http://icdt.tu-dortmund.de/ |title=ICDT: the International Conference on Database Theory |publisher=Icdt.tu-dortmund.de |date= |access-date=2012-08-23}} as well as the VLDB conference. She is a member of the ICDT Council{{cite web|url=http://icdt.tu-dortmund.de/#council|title=Umleitung ICDT Website|website=icdt.tu-dortmund.de}} and the VLDB Endowment.{{cite web|url=http://www.vldb.org/ |title=VLDB Endowment Inc |publisher=Vldb.org |date=2010-08-30 |access-date=2012-08-23}}
In 2011 Milo has been awarded the ERC Advanced Investigators Grant. In 2012 she was elected as an ACM Fellow for her "contributions to database theory and business process management".{{Cite web|url=http://fellows.acm.org/fellow_citation.cfm?id=7180652&srt=year&year=2012|title=About ACM Fellows}}
In 2014, she was elected a member of the Academia Europaea.{{cite web|url=http://www.ae-info.org |title=Academia Europaea}} In 2017, she won the Weizmann Prize for Exact Sciences as well as the VLDB Women in Database Research award. In 2022, she was awarded the IEEE TCDE Impact award. In 2023, she received Doctorate Honoris Causa by the University of Zurich.
Milo is featured on the Notable Women in Computing cards.{{Cite web| title = Notable Women in Computing| url = http://www.cs.duke.edu/csed/wikipedia/cards.html}}
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