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Research.com Recognitions

  • 2025 - Research.com Best Female Scientists Award
  • 2023 - Research.com Computer Science in United States Leader Award
  • 2015 - ACM Athena Lecturer Award For pioneering foundations, architecture, and applications of database systems
  • 2009 - Fellow of the American Academy of Arts and Sciences
  • 2005 - ACM Fellow For contributions to active and semi-structured database systems.
  • 2005 - Member of the National Academy of Engineering For contributions to the design and implementation of active and semi-structured data management systems.
  • 2000 - Fellow of John Simon Guggenheim Memorial Foundation

Overview

Jennifer Widom is affiliated with Stanford University in the United States. Their academic profile reflects a career primarily focused on contributions to database systems, including foundational work in the architecture and applications of such systems.

The scientist has been recognized with several prestigious awards. In 2015, they received the ACM Athena Lecturer Award for pioneering foundations, architecture, and applications of database systems. They became a Fellow of the American Academy of Arts and Sciences in 2009. Earlier, in 2005, Jennifer Widom was named an ACM Fellow for contributions to active and semi-structured database systems and was also elected as a Member of the National Academy of Engineering the same year, cited for contributions to the design and implementation of active and semi-structured data management systems. Additionally, they were a Fellow of the John Simon Guggenheim Memorial Foundation in 2000.

Best Publications

  • Models and issues in data stream systems

    Brian Babcock;Shivnath Babu;Mayur Datar;Rajeev Motwani

  • SimRank: a measure of structural-context similarity

    Glen Jeh;Jennifer Widom

  • Database Systems: The Complete Book

    Hector Garcia-Molina;Jeffrey D. Ullman;Jennifer Widom

  • DataGuides: Enabling Query Formulation and Optimization in Semistructured Databases

    Roy Goldman;Jennifer Widom

  • The Lorel Query Language for Semistructured Data

    Serge Abiteboul;Dallan Quass;Jason McHugh;Jennifer Widom

  • The CQL continuous query language: semantic foundations and query execution

    Arvind Arasu;Shivnath Babu;Jennifer Widom

  • The TSIMMIS project: Integration of heterogeneous information sources

    Sudarshan S. Chawathe;Hector Garcia-Molina;Joachim Hammer;Kelly Ireland

  • Scaling personalized web search

    Glen Jeh;Jennifer Widom

  • Active Database Systems: Triggers and Rules for Advanced Database Processing

    Umeshwar Dayal;Jennifer Widom;Stefano Ceri

  • Object exchange across heterogeneous information sources

    Y. Papakonstantinou;H. Garcia-Molina;J. Widom

  • STREAM: the stanford stream data manager (demonstration description)

    Arvind Arasu;Brian Babcock;Shivnath Babu;Mayur Datar

  • The TSIMMIS Approach to Mediation: Data Models and Languages

    Hector Garcia-Molina;Yannis Papakonstantinou;Dallan Quass;Anand Rajaraman

  • Lore: a database management system for semistructured data

    Jason McHugh;Serge Abiteboul;Roy Goldman;Dallas Quass

  • Research problems in data warehousing

    Jennifer Widom

  • Continuous queries over data streams

    Shivnath Babu;Jennifer Widom

  • Query Processing, Resource Management, and Approximation ina Data Stream Management System

    Rajeev Motwani;Jennifer Widom;Arvind Arasu;Brian Babcock

  • Database System Implementation

    Hector Garcia-Molina;Jennifer Widom;Jeffrey D. Ullman

  • A First Course in Database Systems

    Jeffrey D. Ullman;Jennifer Widom

  • View maintenance in a warehousing environment

    Yue Zhuge;Héctor García-Molina;Joachim Hammer;Jennifer Widom

  • Change detection in hierarchically structured information

    Sudarshan S. Chawathe;Anand Rajaraman;Hector Garcia-Molina;Jennifer Widom

Frequent Co-Authors

Hector Garcia-Molina
Hector Garcia-Molina Stanford University
Shivnath Babu
Shivnath Babu Duke University
Jeffrey D. Ullman
Jeffrey D. Ullman Stanford University
Aditya Parameswaran
Aditya Parameswaran University of California, Berkeley
Anish Das Sarma
Anish Das Sarma Google (United States)
Stefano Ceri
Stefano Ceri Polytechnic University of Milan
Arvind Arasu
Arvind Arasu Microsoft (United States)
Rajeev Motwani
Rajeev Motwani Stanford University
Serge Abiteboul
Serge Abiteboul École Normale Supérieure

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