Sihem Amer-Yahia
Sihem Amer-Yahia | |
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| Born | Algeria |
| Occupation(s) | Computer scientist, CNRS Research Director |
| Years active | 1999–present |
| Known for | Data management, declarative programming languages, query processing, crowdsourcing, computational complexity, data analysis, visualization, big data |
| Notable work | Head of SLIDE research group at Laboratoire d’Informatique de Grenoble; Editor-in-chief of VLDB Journal for Europe and Africa |
Sihem Amer-Yahia is a computer scientist with Algerian, French, and American backgrounds, currently serving as a CNRS Research Director at the Laboratoire d’Informatique de Grenoble. She heads the SLIDE research group and specializes in data management, declarative programming languages, and query processing techniques. Her scholarly work encompasses topics such as crowdsourcing, computational complexity, data analysis, visualization, and challenges related to big data.
Early life and education
Amer-Yahia obtained her Ph.D. in Computer Science in 1999 from Paris-Orsay and INRIA. She also earned an engineering degree (Diplôme d’Ingénieur) from INI in Algeria.
Career
Before joining CNRS, Amer-Yahia held positions including principal scientist at Qatar Computing Research Institute (QCRI), senior scientist at Yahoo! Research, and technical staff member at AT&T Labs.
Her professional service includes membership on editorial boards such as the SIGMOD Executive Committee and the EDBT board. She chaired the EDBT 2014 program committee and currently serves as editor-in-chief of the VLDB Journal for Europe and Africa. She is a trustee emerita of the VLDB Endowment. Furthermore, she acted as associate editor for ACM Transactions on Database Systems until 2017 and as area editor for the Information Systems Journal.
Awards and honours
In 2024, Amer-Yahia was honored with the VLDB Endowment Women in Database Research Award, the ACM SIGMOD Contributions Award recognizing her efforts to promote diversity, equity, and inclusion within database research, as well as the IEEE TCDE Impact Award.
She received the CNRS Silver Medal in 2020 and was designated an ACM distinguished member in 2017.