Val Tannen - Curriculum Vitae#

• Polytechnic Institute of Bucharest, Romania, Computer Engineering, Engineer Diploma 1977
  
• Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Applied Mathematics/Computer Science, PhD, 1983 - 1987. (IBM Graduate Fellowship 1985 - 1987)
  
• MIT Laboratory for Computer Science, Postdoc in Computer Science, 1987

• Fall 2023, Visiting Scientist, Simons Institute for the Theory of Computing, Berkeley
  
• Spring 2020 and 2011-2012, Visiting Professor, EPFL, Switzerland (sabbatical)
  
• Fall 2019, KITHCT Chair Visiting Professor, NUS, Singapore (sabbatical)
  
• Fall 2016, Visiting Scientist, Simons Institute for the Theory of Computing, Berkeley
  
• 2011 - 2012, Visiting Professor, EPF Lausanne, Switzerland (sabbatical)
  
• 2002 - 2003, Visiting Professor, University of Athens, and Visiting Researcher, FORTH, Crete, Greece (sabbatical)
  
• 1994 - 1995, Visiting Professor, Universite de Paris XI, Orsay, and Visiting Researcher, INRIA, Rocquencourt, France (sabbatical)
  
• 1987 - now, Assistant, Associate and Full Professor, CIS Dept., University of Pennsylvania
  
• 1985, 1986, Researcher, IBM T.J.Watson Research Center

• 2022, Lecturer at EDBT Summer School, Bordeaux, France
  
• Member (2018), Vice-Chair (2019), and Chair (2020), ACM Doctoral Dissertation Award Committee
  
• Founding Board Member, Phyloinformatics Research Foundation
  
• Editorial Board, "Information Systems" (Elsevier)
  
• Editor, "Logic and Databases" Major Area, Encyclopedia of Database Systems
  
• 1999 - 2002 and again 2012-2014, Chair, Computer and Information Science Graduate Group, UPenn.
  
• 2010 - 2015 iPTOL-iPlant Steering Committee
  
• 2007 - 2009 Scientific Advisory Committee, Penn Genomic Frontiers Institute
  
• 2 US patents

• “The Semiring Framework for Database Provenance”, Gems of PODS Plenary Address, PODS 2017
  
• 20+ conferences/workshops (keynotes etc.)
  
• 50+ universities and industrial research labs