Recipients of the 2024 ER Fellows Award
The ER Fellows Award is a prestigious honor bestowed upon individuals in the conceptual modeling community in recognition of their significant contributions to ER research, education, and community service. Each year, the ER Fellowship Committee selects up to two individuals from the international scientific community for this award (https://conceptualmodeling.org/ER_Fellows.html).
The ER 2024 Fellows Selection Committee, chaired by Giancarlo Guizzardi (University of Twente, The Netherlands), includes Sudha Ram (University of Arizona, USA), Veda Storey (Georgia State University, USA), Isabelle Comyn-Wattiau, Juan Carlos Trujillo (University of Alicante, Spain), Paul Johannesson (Stockholm University, Sweden), and José Palazzo Moreira de Oliveira (Federal University of Rio Grande do Sul, Brazil). This committee has chosen Stefano Ceri (Milan Polytechnic University, Italy) and Terry Halpin (formerly of Neumont University, Visio Corporation, and LogicBlox, USA) as the new recipients of the ER Fellowship.
Professors Ceri and Halpin will be officially inducted as ER Fellows at ER 2024, held at Carnegie Mellon University in Pittsburgh, USA, from October 28-31, 2024.
Congratulations to Professors Ceri and Halpin!
Stefano Ceri
Stefano Ceri is one of the pioneers of Conceptual Database Design. Over the past 40 years, he has been a leading researcher in this field, with an impressive record in teaching and mentoring multiple generations of conceptual modelers. His contributions to the conceptual modeling and database design communities are numerous. He authored the classic book “Conceptual Database Design: an Entity-Relationship Approach” (Benjamin-Cummings, 1992, with 2045 citations) and created WebML, a declarative language for the conceptual design of web applications (1579 citations, US Patent 6,591,271, July 2003). Ceri is also a member of Academia Europaea (since 2011) and an ACM Fellow (since 2013). He has received two ERC Advanced Grants and has published over 500 works, accumulating 36,390 citations and achieving an H-index of 85.