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Tova Milo

Tova Milo is an Israeli computer scientist and professor at Tel Aviv University, known for her research on database theory and Web data management.

born 1964Database theory researchWeb data managementBusiness process management

Born: 3 July 1964
Occupation: computer scientist
Education: Hebrew University of Jerusalem

Tova Milo was born in 1964

Tova Milo was born on July 3, 1964. She was born and raised in Netanya and lives in Tel Aviv. She is married and has 2 children.

She completed her bachelor's degree at the Technion in 1985 through the academic reserve program and then served in Unit 8200. She earned a master's degree at Tel Aviv University in 1989. In 1992 she received her PhD from the Hebrew University of Jerusalem under Catriel Beeri.

After postdoctoral work at the University of Toronto and INRIA in France, she joined Tel Aviv University in 1995. She headed its Computer Science Department from 2011 to 2014 and leads its database systems group. She became Dean of the Faculty of Exact Sciences in 2020 and Vice President for Research in 2026.

Her research covers database systems, Web data, crowdsourcing, XML and business processes. She has co-authored over 290 papers and a book on business processes. She was the first woman to give the keynote at the Symposium on Principles of Database Systems, and she founded an initiative to advance women in the exact sciences.

Tova Milo's life in 9 milestones

1985
Completed her bachelor's degree at the Technion.
1992
Received her PhD from the Hebrew University of Jerusalem.
1995
Joined the faculty of Tel Aviv University.
2010
Won the Alberto O. Mendelzon Test-of-Time Award.
2011
Became head of the Computer Science Department and received an ERC Advanced Grant.
2012
Was elected an ACM Fellow.
2017
Won the Weizmann Prize for Exact Sciences and the VLDB Women in Database Research Award.
2020
Became Dean of the Faculty of Exact Sciences.
2023
Received an honorary doctorate from the University of Zurich.