Tamer Özsu

Özsu was born in Tavşanlı, Turkey. After completing bachelor's and master's degrees in industrial engineering at Middle East Technical University in Ankara, Turkey in 1974 and 1978, respectively, he completed an MS in 1981 and a PhD in 1983 in computer and information science at the Ohio State University.

After his doctoral degree, Özsu accepted a position as an assistant professor of computing science at the University of Alberta in 1984. In 2000, he joined the David R. Cheriton School of Computer Science as a professor.

Özsu’s research is on large-scale data distribution and management of non-relational data. He coauthored with Patrick Valduriez Principles of Distributed Database Systems, fourth edition. He is co-editor-in-chief, with Ling Liu, of the Encyclopedia of Database Systems, second edition, was the founding editor-in-chief (2013–19) of ACM Books, and the founding series editor (2009–13) of Synthesis Lectures on Data Management.