Nesime Tatbul is an Assistant Professor of Computer Science at ETH Zurich.
She received her B.S. and M.S. degrees in Computer Engineering from the
Middle East Technical University (METU) in Ankara, and her Ph.D. degree in
Computer Science from Brown University. During her graduate school years at
Brown, she also worked as a research intern at the IBM Almaden Research Center,
and as a consultant for the U.S. Army Research Institute of Environmental
Medicine. Her research interests are in database systems, with a current focus
on data stream processing and networked data management. She is the recipient
of a Best System Demonstration award at the ACM SIGMOD 2005 Conference,
both the Best Poster Award and the Grand Challenge Award at the ACM DEBS 2011
Conference, and an IBM Faculty Award in 2008. She has been a Program/General
co-chair for the Sixth/Seventh International Workshop on Data Management for
Sensor Networks (DMSN'09/DMSN'10), and has served on the PC for
various conferences including SIGMOD (as a group leader in 2011),
VLDB, and ICDE.