Biography

Susan D. Urban received the B.S., M.S., and Ph.D. degrees in Computer Science in 1976, 1980, and 1987, respectively, from the University of Louisiana, Lafayette. She is currently a professor in the Department of Computer Science at Texas Tech University. Prior to joining Texas Tech, she was an assistant professor at the University of Miami from 1987 to 1989, an assistant professor at Arizona State University (ASU) from 1989 to 1994, an associate professor at ASU from 1994 to 2001, and a professor at ASU from 2001 to 2007. Her research interests include object-oriented data modeling, object-oriented and object-relational database systems, active database processing for centralized and distributed environments, distributed object computing, and enterprise application integration. Dr. Urban has been the recipient of numerous grants from the US National Science Foundation for her research on constraints, active rule processing, the use of databases in engineering design, and the development of innovative teaching concepts for undergraduate database instruction. She has also been a coinvestigator on a project from the Defense Advanced Projects Agency investigating the integration of product data in engineering design from distributed sources. She has published more than 80 refereed papers and book chapters on the results of her research. She has served on the Editorial Board of the IEEE Transactions on Knowledge and Data Engineering and has been recently appointed to the Editorial Board of the Journal of Computing and Information Science in Engineering. She has also served as the coeditor of special issues in the Integrated Computer-Aided Engineering Journal, Computing Systems Journal, IEEE Transactions on Knowledge and Data Engineering, and Theory and Practice of Object Systems. Dr. Urban has served on the program and organizing committees of numerous database conferences and frequently serves as a reviewer for the US National Science Foundation and for several database journals. She is a member of the ACM, the IEEE Computer Society, and the Phi Kappa Phi Honor Society. https://computing.louisiana.edu/cacs-research/notable-alumni