Dr.M. Tamer Özsu is a Professor of Computer Science and University Research Chair at the University of Waterloo. He will be taking over as the Director of David R. Cheriton School of Computer Science at the University of Waterloo starting January 2007.

He holds a Ph.D. (1983) and an MS (1981) in Computer and Information Science from The Ohio State University (1983) and a B.S. (1974) and M.S. (1978) in Industrial Engineering from the Middle East Technical University (1974). Prior to joining University of Waterloo in 2000, he was with the University of Alberta, Department of Computing Science (1984-2000).

Dr. Özsu's current research focuses on three areas:

(a) Internet-scale data distribution that emphasizes stream data management, peer-to-peer databases, and Web data management;

(b) multimedia data management, concentrating on similarity-based retrieval of time series and trajectory data;

and (c) XML data management mainly focusing on query processing and optimization, and performance benchmarking. His previous research focused on distributed databases, interoperable information systems, object database systems and image databases. He is the co-author of the bookPrinciples of Distributed Database Systems (Prentice Hall) which is now in its second edition (third edition to come out in 2007).

He is currently a University Research Chair and has held a Faculty Research Fellowship at the University of Waterloo (2000 - 2003), and a McCalla Research Professorship (1993-1994) at the University of Alberta where he held faculty position (Computing Science) between 1984 and 2000. He has held visiting positions at GTE Laboratories (USA), INRIA Rocquencourt (France), GMD-IPSI (Germany), University of Jyväskylä (Finland), Technical University of Darmstadt (Germany), University of Udine (Italy), University of Milano (Italy), National University of Singapore, and ETH Zürich (Switzerland).

His Website:http://db.uwaterloo.ca/~tozsu/