Program Committee

Research Program Chairs

• Yannis Ioannidis, University of Athens, Greece

• Dik Lee, Hong Kong University of Science and Technology

• Raymond Ng, University of British Columbia, Canada

Industrial Program Chairs

• Roberto Bayardo, Google, USA

• Michail Vlachos, IBM, USA

Demo Program Chairs

• Vassilis Tsotras, University of California at Riverside, USA

• Haixun Wang, IBM, USA

Area PC Vice Chairs

• Approximation and uncertainty in databases, and probabilistic databases - Dan Suciu (U. of Washington) and Christopher Koch (Cornell U.)

• Data integration, metadata management, and semantic interoperability - John Mylopoulos (U. of Toronto) and Lucian Popa (IBM, Almaden)

• Data mining and knowledge discovery - Kyuseok Shim (Seoul National U.) and Dimitrios Gunopolos (U. of California, Riverside)

• Data privacy and security - Laks Lakshmanan (U. of British Columbia) and Elisa Bertino (Purdue U.)

• Data streams and sensor networks - Mike Franklin (U. of California, Berkeley) and Nick Koudas (U. of Toronto)

• Data warehousing, OLAP and data grids - Divyakant Agrawal (U. of California, Santa Barbara) and Panos Vassiliadis (U. of Ioannina, Greece)

• Database user interfaces and information visualization - Tiziana Catarci (U. of Roma "La Sapienza") and Isabel Cruz (U. of Illinois, Chicago)

• Personalized databases, social information management, annotation and data curation - Stan Zdonik (Brown U.) and Philip Bohannon (Yahoo! Research)

• Query processing, query optimization, database tuning, and autonomic databases - Norman Paton (U. of Manchester) and Venkatesh Ganti (Microsoft Research)

• Scientific, biomedical and other advanced applications - Anthony Tung (National U. of Singapore) and Wei Wang (U. of North Carolina, Chapel Hill)

• Spatial, temporal and multimedia databases - Xiaofang Zhou (U. of Queensland, Brisbane) and Ada Fu (Chinese U. of Hong Kong)

• Transaction and workflow management, and database architectures - Heiko Schuldt (U. Basel, Switzerland) and Bettina Kemme (McGill U.)

• Ubiquitous, mobile, distributed, and peer-to-peer databases - Philip Gibbons (Intel Research) and Aoying Zhou (Fudan U., China)

• Web data management - Alfons Kemper (Technische U. München, Germany) and Wolfgang Nejdl (U. of Hannover, Germany)

• XML - Daniela Florescu (Oracle) and Fatma Ozcan (IBM, Almaden)

Program Committee

• Martin Abadi, UC Santa Cruz

• Ashraf Aboulnaga, University of Waterloo

• Charu Aggarwal, IBM

• Walid Aref, Purdue University

• Mehmet Altinel, IBM

• Paolo Atzeni, Univ Roma Tre

• Shivnath Babu, Duke University

• Magdalena Balazinska, University of Washington

• Wolf-Tilo Balke, L3S Research Center, Hannover

• Andrey Balmin, IBM

• Roger Barga, Microsoft

• Michael Bohlen, Free University Bozen-Bolzano

• Francesco Bonchi, Yahoo!Research

• Peter Boncz, CWI

• Angela Bonifati, Icar-CNR

• Vinayak Borkar, FLWOR Foundation

• Stéphane Bressan, National University Singapore

• Nico Bruno, Microsoft Research

• Francois Bry, LMU Munchen

• Ji-Won Byun, Oracle, USA

• Fabio Casati, Univ of Trento

• Ugur Cetintemel, Brown University

• Sang Kyun Cha, Seoul National University

• Chee-Yong Chan, National University of Singapore

• Kevin Chang, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign

• Lei Chen, Hong Kong UST

• Yi Chen, Arizona State University

• Ming-Syan Chen, NTU Taiwan

• Shimin Chen, Intel

• Rada Chirkova, North Carolina State University

• Chris Clifton, Purdue University

• Christine Collet, Grenoble Institute of Technology

• Mariano Consens, University of Toronto

• Gao Cong, Microsoft China

• Sara Comai, Politecnico di Milano

• Graham Cormode, AT&T Research

• Bin Cui, Peking University

• Nilesh Dalvi, Yahoo Research

• Gautam Das, University of Texas at Arlington

• Abhinandan Das, Google

• Ke Deng, University of Queensland

• Amol Deshpande, University of Maryland

• Alin Deutsch, Univ. of California, San Diego

• Yanlei Diao, Umass

• Jens Dittrich, ETH Zurich

• Alin Dobra, University of Florida

• Asuman Dogac, Middle East Technical University, Turkey

• Peter Dolog, Aalborg University, Denmark

• Amr El Abbadi, UC Santa Barbara

• Leonidas Fegaras, UT Arlington

• Hakan Ferhatosmanoglu, Ohio State University

• Alvaro Fernandes, U. Manchester

• Peter Fischer, ETH, Switzerland

• Enrico Franconi, Free University of Bolzano

• Johann Christoph Freytag, Humboldt-Universität zu Berlin

• Cesar Galindo-Legaria, Microsoft Research

• Michael Gertz, UC Davis

• Aristides Gionis, Yahoo Research, Barcelona

• Maxim Grinev, Sedna

• Goetz Graefe, HP Labs

• Torsten Grust, Technische Universität München

• Sudipto Guha, University of Pennsylvania

• Marios Hadjieleftheriou, AT&T Research

• Mustafa Hammad, University of Calgary

• Jiawei Han, University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign

• Mauricio Hernandez, IBM Almaden

• Hartwig Hochmair, University of Florida

• Mary Holstege, Mathling Corporation

• Vagelis Hristidis, Florida International University

• Luke (Jun) Huan, University of Kansas

• Arantza Illarramendi, Basque Country Univ., Spain

• Ihab Ilyas, University of Waterloo

• Christian Jensen, Aalborg University

• Christopher Jermaine, University of Florida

• Ricardo Jimenez-Peris, Technical University of Madrid

• Carl Christian Kane, Univ. Mannheim

• Jaewoo Kang, Korea University

• Murat Kantarcioglu, UT Dallas

• Daniel Kifer, Cornerll University

• Benny Kimelfeld, Hebrew University of Jerusalem

• Masaru Kitsuregawa, University of Tokyo

• Phokion Kolaitis, IBM Almaden

• Geoge Kollios, Boston University

• Harald Kosch, Univ Passau

• Yannis Kotidis, Athens Univ. of Economics & Business

• Manolis Koubarakis, National University of Athens

• Georgia Koutrika, Stanford University

• Alexandros Labrinidis, University of Pittsburgh

• Wang-Chien Lee, Penn State University

• Kristen LeFevre, University of Michigan

• Cuiping Li, Renmin University of China

• FeiFei Li, Florida State University

• Ninghui Li, Purdue University

• Wen-Syan Li, SAP Research China

• Xuemin Lin, University of New South Wales

• Jinze Liu, University of Kentucky

• Boon Thau Loo, University of Pennsylvania

• Qiong Luo, Hong Kong UST

• Nikos Mamoulis, University of Hong Kong

• Stefan Manegold, CWI, Netherlands

• Nikunj Mehta, Oracle

• Erik Meijer, Microsoft Research

• Taneli Mielikainen, Nokia

• Michele Missikoff, CNR Italy

• Bongki Moon, University of Arizona

• Yang-Sae Moon, Kangwon National Universit

• Kamesh Munagala, Duke University

• Dan Olteanu, Oxford University

• Beng Chin Ooi, National University of Singapore

• Esther Pacitti, Inria and Lina, University of Nantes

• Themistoklis Palpanas, University of Trento

• Dimitris Papadias, Hong Kong UST

• Stelios Paparizos, Microsoft Research

• Srinivasan Parthasarathy, Ohio State University

• Torben Pedersen, Aalborg University

• Jian Pei, Simon Fraser University

• Neoklis Polyzotis, University of California, Santa Cruz

• Rachel Pottinger, University of British Columbia

• Alexandra Poulovassilis, Univ. of London,

• Sunil Prabhakar, Purdue University

• Weining Qian, Fudan University

• Vijayshankar Raman, IBM Almaden

• Manfred Reichert, University of Twente

• Mirek Riedewald, Cornell University

• Uwe Rohm, University of Sydney

• Arnon Rosenthal, Mitre

• Elke Rundensteiner, Worcester Polytechnic Institute

• Jorg Sander, University of Alberta

• Giuseppe Santucci, “Sapienza” University Roma

• Ralf Schenkel, MPI

• Thomas Seidl, RWTH Aachen University

• Heng Tao Shen, University of Queensland

• Jialie Shen, Singapore Management Univ

• Fabrizio Silvestri, ISTI-CNR

• Jerome Simeon, IBM

• Alkis Simitsis, HP Labs, Palo Alto

• Ambuj Singh, UC Santa Barbara

• Lisa Singh, Georgetown University

• Yannis Sismanis, IBM

• Rick Snodgrass, University of Arizona

• Myra Spyliopoulou, University of Magdeburg

• Ramakrishnan Srikant, Google Research

• Divesh Srivastava, AT&T Research

• Utkarsh Srivastava, Yahoo Inc.

• Steffen Staab, University of Koblenz

• Ioana Stanoi, IBM Almaden

• York Sure, SAP Karlsruhe

• Kien-Lee Tan, National University of Singapore

• Val Tannen, University of Pennsylvania

• Yufei Tao, Chinese Univ. of Hong Kong

• Nesime Tatbul, ETH Zurich

• Evimaria Terzi, IBM Almaden

• Jayram Thathachar, IBM Almaden

• Martin Theobald, Stanford

• Bhavani Thuraisingham, UT Dallas

• David Toman, University of Waterloo

• Peter Triantafillou, University of Patras

• Alberto Trombetta, University of Insubria

• Maurice van Keulen, University of Twente

• Vasilis Vassalos, Athens Univ. of Economics & Business

• Michalis Vazirgiannis, Athens Univ. of Economics & Business

• Jari Veijalainen, University of Jyväskylä, Finland

• Yannis Velegrakis, Univ. of Trento

• Stratis Viglas, University Edinburg

• Gottfried Vossen, University of Munster

• Haixun Wang, IBM Yorktown

• Hui Wang, Stevens Institute of Technology

• Jianyong Wang, Tsinghua University

• Sean Wang, U. Vermont

• Gerhard Weikum, MPI

• Till Westmann, BEA

• Walker White, Cornell University

• Duminda Wijesekera, George Mason University

• Ouri Wolfson, University of Illinois at Chicago

• Xindong Wu, University of Vermont

• Yuqing Melanie Wu, Indiana University

• Jianliang Xu, Hong Kong Baptist University

• Jun Yang, Duke University

• Ke Yi, HongKong UST

• Haifeng Yu, National University of Singapore

• Hwanjo Yu, Postech, Korea

• Jeffrey Xu Yu, Chinese University HongKong

• Ting Yu, North Carolina State University

• Mohammed Zaki, Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute

• Carlo Zaniolo, UCLA

• Pavel Zezula, Masaryk University Brno

• Donghui Zhang, Northeastern University

• Rong Zhang, NICT, Japan

• Rui Zhang, University of Melbourne

• Baihua Zheng, Singapore Management University

• Shuigeng Zhou, Fudan University

• Jingren Zhou, Microsoft Research

Industrial Program Committee

• Omar Benjelloun, Google

• Michael Carey, Oracle

• Brian Cooper, Yahoo

• Jonathan Goldstein, Microsoft

• Marios Hadjieleftheriou, AT&T Research

• Stavros Harizopoulos, HP Labs

• Flip Korn, AT&T Research

• Christian Lang, IBM Research

• Bruce Lindsay, IBM Almaden

• Guy Lohman, IBM Almaden

• Stratos Papadomanolakis, Oracle

• Ralf Rantzau, IBM Silicon Valley Lab

• Benjamin Reed, Yahoo

• Uri Shaft, Oracle

• Evimaria Terzi, IBM Almaden

• Deepak Turaga, IBM T.J Watson

• Zografoula Vagena, Microsoft Cambridge

• Xiaoxin Yin, Microsoft

Demo Program Committee

• Ashraf Aboulnaga, University of Waterloo

• Kemafor Anyanwu, North Carolina State Univ.

• Yun Chi, NEC Labs

• Antonios Deligiannakis, Technical University of Crete

• Alex Delis, University of Athens

• Alin Deutsch, University of California, San Diego

• Erik Hoel, ESRI

• Haifeng Jiang, Google Research

• Ruoming Jin, Ken State University

• Panos Kalnis, National University of Singapore

• Panagiotis Karras, National University of Singapore

• Wang-Chien Lee, Penn State Univ.

• Chen Li, UC Irvine

• Lipyeow Lim, IBM T. J. Watson Research

• Huan Liu, Arizona State University

• Mirella M. Moro, UFRGS, Brazil

• Kyriakos Mouratidis, Singapore Management University

• Zaiqing Nie, Microsoft Research Asia

• Sandeep Pandey, Yahoo Research

• Spiros Papadimitriou, IBM T.J. Watson

• Evaggelia Pitoura, Univ. of Ioannina

• Dimitris Plexousakis, University of Crete

• Sarvjeet Singh, Purdue University

• Yannis Sismanis, IBM, syannis@us.ibm.com

• Spiros Skiadopoulos, University of Peloponnese

• Jimeng Sun, IBM Watson

• Caetano Traina, University of Sao Paulo

• Peng Wang, Fudan University

• Dong Xin, Microsoft Research

• Jian Yin, IBM T. J. Watson Research

• Cong Yu, Yahoo Research

• Demetris Zeinalipour-Yazti, Open University of Cyprus