Biographical sketches of authors
Laura M. Haas
IBM Software Group, Silicon Valley Laboratory, 555 Bailey Road, San Jose, California 95141 (electronic mail: Imhaas@us.ibm.com).
Dr. Haas is manager of DB2 Query Compiler and Life Sciences Development for IBM. She was formerly the manager of Data Integration Research at IBM's Almaden Research Center. She received her Ph.D. degree in 1981 from the University of Texas at Austin. Since joining IBM, she has worked on distributed relational database (R*), extensible query processing (Starburst), and the integration of heterogeneous data (Garlic and Clio). Technology from these projects forms the basis of the DB2 UDB query processor and enables access to heterogeneous data sources in the latest releases of DB2. Dr. Haas was vice-chair of ACM SIGMOD from 1989 to 1997. She has served as an associate editor of the ACM journal Transactions on Database Systems, as program chair of the 1998 ACM SIGMOD conference, and was recently elected to the VLDB Board of Trustees. She has received IBM awards for Outstanding Technical Achievement and Outstanding Contributions, and a YWCA Tribute to Women in Industry (TWIN) award. Her research interests include schema mapping, data integration, and query processing.
Peter M. Schwarz
IBM Research Division, Almaden Research Center, 650 Harry Road, San Jose, California 95120 (electronic mail: schwarz@almaden.ibm.com).
Dr. Schwarz is a research staff member in the Middleware Systems and Technology Department of IBM's Almaden Research Center. He received his Ph.D. degree from Carnegie-Mellon University in 1984, working with Alfred Spector on concurrency control and recovery for typed objects. At IBM, Dr. Schwarz has worked on algorithms for log-based recovery in database systems and middleware for integrating heterogeneous data sources. His interests also include object-oriented programming languages and type systems.
Prasad Kodali
3rd Millennium Inc., 125 Cambridge Park Drive, Cambridge, Massachusetts 02140 (electronic mail: pkodali@3rdmill.com).
Dr. Kodali is Informatics Project Lead at 3rd Millennium, where he is involved in developing advanced informatics solutions for pharmaceutical and biotechnology companies. He was previously the product manager of data integration products at NetGenics, Inc. He received his Ph.D. degree in computational chemistry from Pennsylvania State University. His research interests include data integration in drug discovery, computational algorithms, computer-assisted drug design, and life science informatics.
Elon Kotlar
Aventis Pharmaceuticals, Bridgewater, New Jersey 08807 (electronic mail: elon.kotlar@aventis.com).
Mr. Kotlar is a global project leader in the Drug Innovation and Approval Information Solutions organization at Aventis Pharmaceuticals. He received his B.A. in the biological basis of behavior from the University of Pennsylvania in 1996 and then worked in diagnostic radiology research at the Hospital of the University of Pennsylvania. At Aventis Pharmaceuticals he has worked to provide scientists with solutions to integrate data across the drug discovery process.
Julia E. Rice
IBM Research Division, Almaden Research Center, 650 Harry Road, San Jose, California 95120 (electronic mail: julia@almaden.ibm.com).
Dr. Rice is a research staff member and manager in IBM Research at the Almaden Research Center. She joined the computational chemistry team at IBM in 1988 and worked on understanding and predicting the nonlinear optical properties of organic molecules. Following that, she led the teams that developed the quantum chemistry and architecture components of the computational chemistry software package, Mulliken. More recently, her interests have expanded to include database and, in particular, informatics issues in life sciences. Research in Dr. Rice's group currently includes 3-D molecular similarity matching of databases of flexible molecules, as well as the use of annotations in life sciences. Her group has played a key role in bridging the gap between scientists and the use of database technology in the DiscoveryLink project. Dr. Rice received her Ph.D. in theoretical chemistry from the University of Cambridge, England. She spent a postdoctoral year at the University of California, Berkeley and then held a research fellowship at Newnham College, Cambridge before joining IBM. Dr. Rice was named as one of the 750 most highly cited chemists worldwide for the period 1981–1997 (ISI survey). She is currently a member of the Executive Committee of the Physical Chemistry section of the American Chemical Society. Dr. Rice was awarded the YWCA Tribute to Women in Industry Award (TWIN) in 1999.
William C. Swope
IBM Research Division, Almaden Research Center, 650 Harry Road, San Jose, California 95120 (electronic mail: swope@almaden.ibm.com).
Dr. Swope is a research staff member currently helping with the Blue Gene Protein Science project. He started his career in IBM at IBM Instruments, Inc., an IBM subsidiary that developed scientific instrumentation, where he worked in an advanced processor design group. He also worked for six years at the IBM Scientific Center in Palo Alto, California, where he helped IBM customers develop software for numerically intensive scientific applications. In 1992 Dr. Swope joined the IBM Research Division at Almaden, where he has been involved in software development for computational chemistry applications and in technical data management for petroleum and life sciences applications. He obtained his undergraduate degree in chemistry and physics from Harvard University and his Ph.D. degree in quantum chemistry from the University of California at Berkeley. He then performed postdoctoral research on the statistical mechanics of condensed phases in the chemistry department at Stanford University. He maintains a number of scientific relationships and collaborations with academic and commercial scientists involved in the life sciences and, in particular, drug development.
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