Mary Fernandez

Board Member

Mary Fernández is Executive Director of Dependable Distributed Computing Research at AT&T Labs Research. Her personal research sits at the juncture of database systems and programming languages and focuses on domain-specific languages for data management in centralized and distributed environments. Dr. Fernández has published more than 40 articles in leading conferences and journals, including ACM PLDI, ACM SIGMOD, International Conference on Data Engineering, the International World-Wed Web Conference, VLDB Journal, ACM TOPLAS, and ACM TODS. She is co-editor of several World-Wide Web Consortium recommendations on XML technologies that are widely used industry standards.

Mary is on the board of directors of the Computing Research Association and is past Secretary/Treasurer of ACM SIGMOD (2005-09) and a past associate editor of ACM Transactions on Database Systems.

She is an enthusiastic advisory board member of MentorNet (www.mentornet.net), an e-mentoring program for students in science, technology, engineering, and mathematics.