Sihem Amer-Yahia Speaks Out on Social Computing and DEI

Welcome to ACM SIGMOD Record's series of interviews with distinguished members of the database community. I'm H. V. Jagadish, Professor of Computer Science at the University of Michigan. Sihem Amer-Yahia is my guest today. She is a Silver Medal Research Director at the French National Center for Scientific Research (CNRS) and Deputy Director of the Laboratoire d'Informatique de Grenoble, one of the largest research labs in Computer Science in France, with CNRS and INRIA Researchers and University Professors. She has won many awards, including the 2024 IEEE TCDE Impact Award, the ACM SIGMOD Contributions Award, and the VLDB Women in Database Research Award. Welcome, Sihem!