Dr.  Fatma Özcan

Fatma Özcan is a Principal Engineer at Systems Research@Google. Before that, she was a Distinguished Research Staff Member and a senior manager at IBM Almaden Research Center. Her current research focuses on LLMs and ML for data management, text2SQL and conversational interfaces to data, platforms and infra-structure for large-scale data analysis. Dr Özcan got her PhD degree in computer science from University of Maryland, College Park. She has over 24 years of experience in industrial research, and has delivered core technologies into various IBM and Google products. She has been a contributor to various SQL standards, including SQL/XML, SQL/JSON and SQL/PTF. She is the co-author of the book "Heterogeneous Agent Systems", and co-author of several conference papers and patents. She is an ACM Fellow and serves on the CRA board of directors, and is the co-chair of CRA-Industry. She received the VLDB Women in Database Research Award in 2022. 

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