Isabel F. Cruz

Professor
University of Illlinois Faculty Scholar (2011-2014)
Great Cities Institute Faculty Scholar (2009-2010)

I joined the faculty of the Department of Computer Science at UIC in 2001. My main areas of research are databases, geographic information systems, semantic web, information visualization, and security. Current topics of research include information extraction and matching, big data (e.g., for geographical and biomedical information), visual analytics, context-aware role-based access control, data linking for urban resilience and sustainability, and crowdsourcing. I direct the ADVIS Lab. More ...

News

Isabel Cruz gives talk at Microsoft Research (June 2013)
ICDE 2014 Web site (June 2013)
International Symposium on the Design of Urban Systems of the Future (May 2013)
Visit of Tina Eliassi-Rad (May 2013)
Anna Anderson and Matt Dumford join the ADVIS Lab as NSF REU recipients (April 2013)
Launching of AgreementMakerLight at SOMER meeting, University of Lisbon (April 2013)
Isabel Cruz made associate editor of ACM Trans. on Spatial Algorithms and Systems (March 2013)
Isabel Cruz receives ACM Recognition of Service Award (February 2013)
REU-recipient Devina Dhawan receives Scholarship for Service, CyberCorps (January 2013)AgreementMaker still at the top! (December 2012)
WISE 2012 (November 2012)
ACM SIGPATIAL GIS 2012 (November 2012)
Invited talk at Chesapeake Large-Scale Analytics Conference (October 2012)
Moving Objects Databases for Exploration of Virtual and Real Environments (September 2012)
ODBASE 2012 (September 2012)
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Contact Information

The University of Illinois at Chicago
College of Engineering
Department of Computer Science
Science and Engineering Offices
851 South Morgan Street (M/C 152)
Chicago, Illinois 60607-7053

Email:
Cell: (708) 269-5075
ADVIS Lab: (312) 413-1270
Fax (CS): (312) 413-0024