Dr. Gruenwald's major research interests include Stream and Sensor Databases, Multimedia Databases, Distributed Databases, Mobile Databases, Object-Oriented Databases, Real-Time Databases, Web Databases, Data Mining, and Data Warehouse. She has received over 6 million dollars in grants from National Science Foundation, NASA, Department of Defense, National Library of Medicine, Department of Homeland Security, National Institute of Justice, Oklahoma City National Memorial Institute for the Prevention of Terrorism (MIPT), Computing Research Association, Lucent Technologies, Objectivity Technologies., AT&T, Informix, Tri-Steel Structures, Northrop-Grumman, Regional AIDS Interfaith Network, Oklahoma Department of Quality Control, Oklahoma State Department of Health, Oklahoma Juvenile Affairs, and The University of Oklahoma - Vice President for Research. She has published over one hundred technical papers in books, journals, and conference proceedings. She served as a chair of the 2000 ACM SIGMOD Undergraduate Scholarship committee, a co-chair of the 2006 International Workshop on Self-Adaptive and Autonomic Computing Systems, a co-chair of the 2003 International Workshop on Knowledge, Ontology, Meta data, Meaning, Matters, a co-chair of the 1998 International Workshop on Real-Time and Active Databases, and a database session chair and a program committee member of many other international conferences. Among many awards and honors she has received are the 2001-2002 National Residence Hall Awards for Outstanding Leadership, Scholarship, and Service, 1998 Samuel Roberts Noble Foundation Presidential Professorship Award from The University of Oklahoma, 1998 Distinguished Lectureship Award from the College of Engineering at the University of Oklahoma, 1997 International Who is Who of Professionals, 1996 Award for Outstanding Contributions to the Technical Program of the Engineering System Design and Analysis Conference, American Society of Mechanical Engineers, and 1987 Most Popular Faculty Award from Southern Methodist University. 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. She has graduated 8 Ph.D. students and 30 Master's students. She is currently a Director of the Database Laboratory at The University of Oklahoma supervising 5 Ph.D. students, 4 Master's students and 2 undergraduate students on various database research projects. She is a member of ACM, SIGMOD, and IEEE Computer Society.