Peter Buneman#
| Membership Number: | 4622 |
| Membership type: | ORDINARY |
| Section: | INFORMATICS |
| Elected: | 2017 |
| Main Country of Residence: | UNITED KINGDOM |
| Homepage(s): | http://homepages.inf.ed.ac.uk/opb |
Present and Previous Positions
- 2002 - present Professor, Chair of Database Systems, University of Edinburgh
- 1975 - 2001 Professor (assistant through full), University of Pennsylvania
- 1970 - 1974 Lecturer, School of Artificial Intelligence, University of Edinburgh
Fields of Scholarship
- Query languages and data models
- Database programming languages
- Databases
- Type systems and semantics
- Semistructured data and XML
- Data provenance
Honours and Awards
- 2013 Member of the Order of the British Empire
- 2009 Fellow of the Royal Society
- 2004 Fellow of the Royal Society of Edinburgh
- 2002 Royal Society Wolfson Research Merit Award
- 1999 ACM Fellow
- Test of Time Awards: SIGMOD 2016 (for 2006), ICDT 2014 (for 1986-1992), ICDT 2018 (for 1999 & 2001)
- Broadband Awards: Nextgen Challenge (Rural Internet) 2011; European Commission 2016.
