Scientific Activities

Journal Editing

Member of the Editorial Board of Distributed and Parallel Databases (DAPD), 2014-2024.
Associate Editor of the VLDB Journal (VLDBJ), 2015-2021.
Guest Editor of the VLDB Journal Special Section on the Best Papers of the Workshop on Data Management on New Hardware (DaMoN) 2019, November 2020.
Associate Editor of the IEEE Transactions on Knowledge and Data Engineering (TKDE), 2012-2016.
Guest Co-editor (with Beng Chin Ooi and Patrick Valduriez) of the VLDB Journal Special Section on Data-intensive Cloud Infrastructure, December 2014.

Conference and Workshop Organization

Workshop Co-chair (with Tilmann Rabl) at the ACM SIGMOD International Conference on Management of Data (SIGMOD), 2028.
Associate Editor of the Proceedings of the VLDB Endowment (PVLDB), volume 20, 2026-2027.
Papers published in this volume of PVLDB were presented at the International Conference on Very Large Databases (VLDB), 2027.
Senior Program Committee Member of the IEEE International Conference on Data Engineering (ICDE), 2027.
Associate Editor of the Proceedings of the VLDB Endowment (PVLDB), volume 19, 2025-2026.
Papers published in this volume of PVLDB were presented at the International Conference on Very Large Databases (VLDB), 2026. (Distinguished Associate Editor Award)
Associate Editor of the ACM SIGMOD International Conference on Management of Data (SIGMOD), 2026.
Area Chair in the Research Program Committee of the IEEE International Conference on Data Engineering (ICDE), 2026.
Associate Editor of the ACM SIGMOD International Conference on Management of Data (SIGMOD), 2025. (Distinguished Associate Editor Award, Best Paper Selection Committee.)
Area Chair in the Research Program Committee of the IEEE International Conference on Data Engineering (ICDE), 2025.
Senior Program Committee Member of the Conference on Extending Database Technology (EDBT), 2025. (Best Paper Selection Committee.)
Associate Editor of the Proceedings of the VLDB Endowment (PVLDB), volume 17, 2023-2024.
Papers published in this volume of PVLDB were presented at the International Conference on Very Large Databases (VLDB), 2024.
Associate Editor of the ACM SIGMOD International Conference on Management of Data (SIGMOD), 2024. (Distinguished Associate Editor Award, Best Paper Selection Committee.)
Industry and Applications Track Program Committee Co-Chair (with Peter Boncz and Fatma Özcan) of the IEEE International Conference on Data Engineering (ICDE), 2024.
Senior Program Committee Member of the Conference on Extending Database Technology (EDBT), 2024.
Industrial Track Program Committee Co-Chair (with Avrilia Floratou) of the ACM SIGMOD International Conference on Management of Data (SIGMOD), 2022.
Associate Editor of the Proceedings of the VLDB Endowment (PVLDB), volume 14, 2020-2021.
Papers published in this volume of PVLDB were presented at the International Conference on Very Large Databases (VLDB), 2021.
Program Committee Vice-chair for Distributed, Parallel, and P2P Data Management at the IEEE International Conference on Data Engineering (ICDE), 2018.
Associate Editor of the Proceedings of the VLDB Endowment (PVLDB), volume 10, 2016-2017.
Papers published in this volume of PVLDB were presented at the International Conference on Very Large Databases (VLDB), 2017.
Co-chair (with Barzan Mozafari and Ippokratis Pandis) of the Workshop on Cloud Data Management (CloudDM), 2016.
Program Committee Area Chair for Cloud Computing and Database-as-a-Service at the IEEE International Conference on Data Engineering (ICDE), 2016.
Associate Editor of the Proceedings of the VLDB Endowment (PVLDB), volume 6, 2012-2013.
Papers published in this volume of PVLDB were presented at the International Conference on Very Large Databases (VLDB), 2013.
Co-chair (with Carlo Curino) of the International Workshop on Data Management in the Cloud (DMC), 2013.
Senior Program Committee Member of the ACM Conference on Information and Knowledge Management (CIKM), 2012.
Co-chair (with Kenneth Salem) of the International Workshop on Self Managing Database Systems (SMDB), 2009.

Program Committee Membership

ACM SIGMOD International Conference on Management of Data, 2027. (Industrial Track)
Conference on Extending Database Technology (EDBT), 2027.
ACM SIGMOD International Conference on Management of Data, 2026.
ACM SIGMOD International Conference on Management of Data, 2026. (Industrial Track)
Conference on Extending Database Technology (EDBT), 2026.
IEEE International Conference on Data Engineering (ICDE), 2024.
Workshop on Serverless Data Analytics (SDA), 2023.
International Conference on Very Large Databases (VLDB), 2023.
ACM SIGMOD International Conference on Management of Data, 2023.
ACM SIGMOD International Conference on Management of Data, 2023. (Industrial Track, Best Paper Selection Committee)
Conference on Extending Database Technology (EDBT), 2023.
Conference on Extending Database Technology (EDBT), 2021.
International Conference on Very Large Databases (VLDB), 2020. (Distinguished Review Board Member Award)
ACM SIGMOD International Conference on Management of Data, 2020.
IEEE International Conference on Data Engineering (ICDE), 2020.
International Conference on Very Large Databases (VLDB), 2019. (Best Paper Selection Committee)
ACM SIGMOD International Conference on Management of Data, 2019. (Core Program Committee, Best Paper Selection Committee)
IEEE International Conference on Data Engineering (ICDE), 2019.
IEEE International Conference on Data Engineering (ICDE), 2019. (Industrial Track)
International Workshop on Self-Managing Database Systems (SMDB), 2019.
ACM Symposium on Cloud Computing (SoCC), 2018.
International Conference on Very Large Databases (VLDB), 2018.
ACM SIGMOD International Conference on Management of Data, 2018. (Distinguished Program Committee Member Award)
ACM SIGMOD International Conference on Management of Data, 2018. (Demonstration Committee)
IEEE International Conference on Data Engineering (ICDE), 2018. (Industrial Track)
ACM Symposium on Cloud Computing (SoCC), 2017.
ACM SIGMOD International Conference on Management of Data, 2017.
ACM SIGMOD International Conference on Management of Data, 2017. (Demonstration Committee)
IEEE International Conference on Data Engineering (ICDE), 2017.
International Conference on Very Large Databases (VLDB), 2016.
ACM SIGMOD International Conference on Management of Data, 2016.
IEEE International Conference on Big Data (BigData), 2015.
Conference of the Centre for Advanced Studies on Collaborative Research (CASCON), 2015.
ACM Conference on Information and Knowledge Management (CIKM), 2015.
ACM Symposium on Cloud Computing (SoCC), 2015.
International Conference on Very Large Databases (VLDB), 2015.
IEEE International Conference on Data Engineering (ICDE), 2015.
Conference on Extending Database Technology (EDBT), 2015.
ACM Conference on Information and Knowledge Management (CIKM), 2014.
ACM Symposium on Cloud Computing (SoCC), 2014.
ACM SIGMOD International Conference on Management of Data, 2014.
International Workshop on Reliable Data Services and Systems (RDSS), 2014.
IEEE International Conference on Data Engineering (ICDE), 2014.
International Workshop on Self-Managing Database Systems (SMDB), 2014.
ACM Conference on Information and Knowledge Management (CIKM), 2013.
ACM Symposium on Cloud Computing (SoCC), 2013.
ACM SIGKDD Conference on Knowledge Discovery and Data Mining (KDD), 2013.
International Conference on Scientific and Statistical Database Management (SSDBM), 2013.
ACM SIGMOD International Conference on Management of Data, 2013.
IEEE International Conference on Data Engineering (ICDE), 2013.
International Conference on Web Information System Engineering (WISE), 2012.
International Conference on Very Large Databases (VLDB), 2012.
International Workshop on End-to-end Management of Big Data (BigData), 2012.
ACM SIGMOD International Conference on Management of Data, 2012.
SIGMOD/PODS Ph.D. Symposium, 2012.
International Workshop on Self Managing Database Systems (SMDB), 2012.
Conference of the Centre for Advanced Studies on Collaborative Research (CASCON), 2011. (Ten-year Most Influential Paper Selection Committee)
ACM Conference on Information and Knowledge Management (CIKM), 2011.
International Conference on Very Large Databases (VLDB), 2011.
ACM SIGMOD International Conference on Management of Data, 2011.
IEEE International Conference on Data Engineering (ICDE), 2011.
International Workshop on Self Managing Database Systems (SMDB), 2011.
International Conference on Very Large Databases (VLDB), 2010.
Conference of the Centre for Advanced Studies on Collaborative Research (CASCON), 2009.
International Conference on Very Large Databases (VLDB), 2009.
International XML Database Symposium (XSym), 2009.
IEEE International Conference on Distributed Computing Systems (ICDCS), 2009.
ACM SIGMOD International Conference on Management of Data, 2009.
IEEE International Conference on Data Engineering (ICDE), 2009.
IEEE International Conference on Data Engineering (ICDE), 2009. (Demonstration Committee)
ACM Conference on Information and Knowledge Management (CIKM), 2008.
ACM International Workshop on Web Information and Data Management (WIDM), 2008.
VLDB Ph.D. Workshop, 2008.
IEEE International Conference on Data Engineering (ICDE), 2008.
International Conference on Very Large Databases (VLDB), 2007. (Demonstration Committee)
ACM International Workshop on Web Information and Data Management (WIDM), 2007.
International XML Database Symposium (XSym), 2007.
VLDB Ph.D. Workshop, 2007.
International Conference on Scientific and Statistical Database Management (SSDBM), 2007.
ACM SIGMOD International Conference on Management of Data, 2007. (Demonstration Committee)
IEEE International Conference on Distributed Computing Systems (ICDCS), 2007.
IEEE International Conference on Data Engineering (ICDE), 2007.
USENIX Conference on File and Storage Technologies (FAST), 2007.
ACM Conference on Information and Knowledge Management (CIKM), 2006.
International XML Database Symposium (XSym), 2006.
ACM SIGMOD International Conference on Management of Data, 2006.
IEEE International Conference on Data Engineering (ICDE), 2006.
Conference on Extending Database Technology (EDBT), 2006.
International XML Database Symposium (XSym), 2005.
ACM International Workshop on Web Information and Data Management (WIDM), 2005.
IEEE International Conference on Data Engineering (ICDE), 2005.
ACM International Workshop on Web Information and Data Management (WIDM), 2004.

Membership on Professional Committees

Member of the SIGMOD Jim Gray Doctoral Dissertation Award Committee, 2013-2017 (co-chair 2015-2017).
Member of the Executive Committee of the IEEE Computer Society Data Engineering Workgroup on Self-Managing Database Systems, 2010-2020.

Advisory Board Membership

ClevrU, 2011-2014.