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Meet Featured ACM Distinguished Fatma Özcan
Fatma Özcan is a Principal Engineer at Systems Research at Google. Before that, she was a Distinguished Research Staff Member and a senior manager at IBM Almaden Research Center. She is an ACM Fellow and serves on the CRA board of directors, is the co-chair of CRA-Industry, adn received the VLDB Women in Database Research Award in 2022. She has over 24 years of experience in industrial research, and has delivered core technologies into various IBM and Google products. Her lectures include "What We Learned Building LLM-Powered Text-to-SQL."
