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

Alessio Fabiani and Matteo Palmonari present paper on an automatically configurable architecture for ontology matching using machine learning techniques at ESWC 2012 (May 2012)
Four students graduate from the ADVIS Lab: Rigel Gjomemo (PhD), Joel Booth (PhD), Federico Caimi (MS Thesis), and Alessio Fabiani (MS Thesis) (May 2012)
Isabel Cruz and Cosmin Stroe give demo of an interactive ontology matching system at ICDE 2012 (March 2012)
Isabel Cruz gives Reginald Golledge Distinguished Lectureship at UCSB "Big Data in Geographic Information Science Panel 2012" (February 2012)
UIC Area of Excellence Award: Building Urban Resilience and Sustainability (BURST): Integrating Adaptive Infrastructure Systems with Institutional and Ecological Functions (January 2012)
Interview: "Complexity of simple answers" (December 2011)
NSF features research by Isabel Cruz and Rigel Gjomemo "Computer Scientists Advance Secure Emergency Response Systems" (November 2011)
Isabel Cruz is the General Chair of ACM SIGSPATIAL GIS (November 2011)
AgreementMaker is again the best ontology matching system at OAEI (October 2011)
Isabel Cruz is Program Chair of IDEAS 2011 (September 2011)
The ADVIS Lab welcomes Alessio Fabiani (visiting from "La Sapienza") and welcomes back Matteo Palmorari (from Milano-Bicocca) and Federico Caimi (graduate student at UIC) (August 2011)
New project on Visual Analytics for Ontology Matching (July 2011)
AgreementMaker on Linked Open Data Paper at IJCAI LHD-11 (July 2011)
Catia Pesquita visits the ADVIS Lab (July 2011) Invited Talk
Isabel Cruz receives the University of Illinois Faculty Scholar Award (June 2011)
Rigel Gjomemo receives the Outstanding TA Award (May 2011)

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