Val Tannen#
| Membership Number: | 6561 |
| Membership type: | FOREIGN |
| Section: | INFORMATICS |
| Elected: | 2023 |
| Main Country of Residence: | UNITED STATES |
| Homepage(s): | https://www.cis.upenn.edu/~val/home.html |
| ORCID: | 0009-0008-6847-7274 |
Present and Previous Positions
- 1987 - present Professor (Asst.,Assoc, and Full), Dept. of Computer and Information Science, University of Pennsylvania
- 2023 08-12 Visiting Scientist, Simons Institute for the Theory of Computing, UC Berkeley, (planned)
- 2022 - 2023 Distinguished Visitor, University or Edinburgh
- 2020 01-06 Visiting Professor, EPFL, Switzerland (sabbatical leave)
- 2019 09-12 KITHCT Visiting Chair Professor, NUS, Singapore (sabbatical leave)
- 2016 08-12 Visiting Scientist, Simons Institute for the Theory of Computing, UC Berkeley, USA
- 2011 - 2012 Visiting Professor, EPFL, Switzerland (sabbatical leave)
- 2003 01-05 Visiting Researcher, FORTH, Heraklion, Greece (sabbatical leave)
- 2002 09-12 Visiting Professor, MPLA, Univ of Athens, Greece (sabbatical leave)
- 1994 - 1995 Visiting Professor, Université de Paris XI, Orsay, France (sabbatical leave)
- 1994 - 1995 Visiting Researcher, INRIA, Rocquencourt, France (sabbatical leave)
Fields of Scholarship
- Management of uncertain information
- Genomic bioinformatics
- Programming language theory
- Database query languages
- Programming language types and semantics
- Systematic and evolutionary biology
- Data integration and sharing
- Database theory
- Logic in computer science
- Data provenance (lineage)
Honours and Awards
- 2017 10 years Mendelzon Test-of-Time Award from the Symposium on Principles of Database Systems
- 2014 Fellow of the Association for Computing Machinery
- 2014 20 years Test-of-Time Award from the Intl. Conf. on Database Theory
- 1990 - 1995 Presidential Young Investigator from the US National Science Foundation
