Scholar
Frank Tompa
Google Scholar ID: sOl6-dEAAAAJ
Distinguished Professor Emeritus, University of Waterloo
Citations & Impact
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Resume (English only)
Academic Achievements
- 2022 Elected as a Fellow of the Asia-Pacific Artificial Intelligence Association (AAIA) as 'the top scientist with outstanding achievements in the area of text-dominated and semi-structured data management.'
- 2015 Winner of a CS-CAN|INFO-CAN Lifetime Achievement Award for 'outstanding and sustained contributions to computing.'
- 2014 Designated Distinguished Professor Emeritus by the University of Waterloo.
- 2013 Awarded the degree Doctor of Laws, honoris causa, by Dalhousie University for 'outstanding personal achievements.'
- 2012 Awarded the Queen Elizabeth II Diamond Jubilee Medal created 'to honour Her Majesty for her service to this country... [and] to honour significant contributions and achievements by Canadians'; more specifically 'in light of ... significant contributions to text data and design systems for maintaining large reference texts.'
- 2010 Named an ACM Fellow 'to recognize and honor outstanding ACM members for their achievements in computer science and information technology and for their significant contributions to the mission of the ACM' and more specifically 'for contributions to text-dominated and semi-structured data management.'
- 2005 Recognized by the University of Waterloo and the City of Waterloo as one of those who 'epitomize the energy and enterprise that characterize the University of Waterloo' through the naming of the road Frank Tompa Drive.
- 2005 Received a University of Waterloo Award of Excellence in Graduate Supervision 'to recognize exemplary faculty members who have demonstrated excellence in graduate student supervision.'
- 2000 and 2007 Received a University of Waterloo Mathematics Faculty Fellowship and a David R. Cheriton Faculty Fellowship 'to recognize a faculty member whose scholarly work has gained national or international attention, whose teaching ability is exceptional, and who has displayed a high level of commitment and dedication to her/his department, the Faculty of Mathematics, and the University.'
- 1997 Received a University-Industry Synergy R&D Partnership Award from the Conference Board of Canada and NSERC, as a result of the Industry Canada-funded Canadian Strategic Software Consortium (CSSC) project, entitled Text/Relational Database Management Systems, with industrial partners Fulcrum, Grafnetix, InContext, Megalith, Open Text, PSSystems, and SoftQuad.
- 1991 Named a 'leader in Canadian Science' by the Natural Sciences and Engineering Research Council of Canada (NSERC) in their first publication of twelve Great Canadian Success Stories, as a result of the NSERC Cooperative R&D project with the Oxford University Press, entitled Text-dominated databases.
Research Experience
- Earlier research was conducted through the UW Centre for the New OED and Text Research. After that, research activities have fallen in the areas of XML data management, database access control, and most recently search engines.
Background
- Teaching and research interests span the fields of data structures and databases, particularly the design of text management systems suitable for maintaining large reference texts (including the Oxford English Dictionary) and large, heterogeneous text collections.
Miscellany
- "I have no data yet. It is a capital mistake to theorize before one has data." - A. Conan Doyle, Adventures of Sherlock Holmes, Adventure 1. A Scandal in Bohemia
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