Margaret H. Dunham
Biography

Margaret (Maggie) H. Dunham received the B.A. and M.S. degrees in mathematics from Miami University , Oxford, Ohio, and the Ph.D. degree in computer science from Southern Methodist University in 1970, 1972, and 1984 respectively.

From August 1984 to the present, she has been first an assistant professor, associate professor, and now full professor in the department of Computer Science and Engineering at Southern Methodist University in Dallas. Maggie served as Associate Chairman of the department from 1992 to 1994. She is currently the Director of Undergraduate Studies in the department. She also served as President of the SMU Faculty Senate during 1996-1997. In addition to her academic experience, Professor Dunham has nine years industry experience at Xerox Corporation, Texas Instruments, and Anderson Clayton Foods.

Professor Dunham directs the SMU DB Research Group which is currently conducting research in the Mobile Computing and Data Mining areas. Previous research areas include Concurency Control, Main Memory Databases and Temporal Databases. The SMU Database Research Group currently consists of two Ph.D. students, two M.S. students, and two undergraduate students with funding from three NSF grants.

Professor Dunham has received over a million dollars is funding. Her research has been suppported by NSF, DOD, the state of Texas, Texas Instruments Inc, NEC America Inc, and DSC Communications Corporation.

Dr. Dunham has performed extensive service both to SMU and the database community as a whole. She is currently an associate editor for the IEEE Transasctions on Knowledge and Data Engineering. Dr. Dunham served as the general chair for the ACM SIGMOD/PODS conference held in Dallas in May 2000. Previously, she served as editor of the ACM SIGMOD Record from 1986 to 1988. She has served on the program and organizing committees for many ACM and IEEE conferences. She served as guest editor for a special section of IEEE Transactions on Knowledge and Data Engineering devoted to Main Memory Databases as well as a special issue of the ACM SIGMOD Record devoted to Mobile Computing in databases. She has published over eighty technical papers in such research areas as database concurrency control and recovery, database machines, main memory databases, and mobile computing.

Professor Dunham lives in Dallas with husband Jim, daughters Stephanie and Kristina, and cat Missy.