Dr. Le Gruenwald is the David W. Franke Professor of Computer Science at the University of Oklahoma (OU) and a Program Director for Data Management Systems at National Science Foundation. She received her PhD in computer science from Southern Methodist University in 1990. Prior to joining OU, She worked for White River Technologies as a Software Engineer, Southern Methodist University as a faculty member in the Computer Science and Engineering Department, and NEC America, Advanced Switching Laboratory as a Member of the Technical Staff in the Database Management Group.

Dr. Gruenwald's major research interests include Stream Data Management, Mobile and Distributed Databases, Multimedia Databases, Real-Time Databases, Object-Oriented Databases, Temporal Databases, and Data Mining. She has received grants from many federal and state agencies and industry. She has published more than one hundred technical papers in books, journals, and conference proceedings. She served as a chair of the 2000 ACM SIMOD (Special Interest Group on Management of Data) Undergraduate Scholarship committee, a co-chair for 2006 International Workshop on Self-Adaptive and Autonomic Computing Systems, 2003 International the Workshop on Knowledge, Ontology, Meta data, Meaning, Matters, and 1998 International Workshop on Real-Time and Active Databases, and a database session chair and a program committee member for many other international conferences. She was a visiting scholar at University of Clemont Ferrand in France, University of Paderborn in Germany, Nanyang Technological University in Singapore and IBM India Research Lab in Dehli, India.