Service

Selected Professional Activities

Conference and workshop organization:

• PVLDB Vol 13 Co-Editor in Chief (VLDB'20 PC co-chair).
• SoCC 2019 General Chair.
• CIDR 2017 and 2019 PC co-chair.
• SIGMOD 2017 Vice PC co-chair.
• SIGMOD 2016 Area chair.
• SoCC 2015 PC co-chair.
• PVLDB 2015 Associate Editor.
• SSDBM 2013 PC chair.
• SIGMOD 2012 demonstration chair.
• Honorary treasurer for VLDB 2011.
• Co-organizer of the UW/MSR Summer Institute on Cloud Computing (August 2010).
• Co-organizer of XLDB4, the 4th Extremely Large Databases Conference and affiliated workshop (October 2010).
• Founder and co-chair of the Int. Workshop on RFID Data Management -- RFDM'08 (with ICDE 2008).
• General co-chair of the 5th Int. Workshop on Data Management for Sensor Networks -- DMSN'08 (with VLDB 2008).
• Program co-chair of the 4th Int. Workshop on Data Management for Sensor Networks -- DMSN'07 (with VLDB 2007).
• Program committee area chair: ICDE 2011 and ICDE 2013
• Steering committee of the 6th Int. Workshop on Data Management for Sensor Networks -- DMSN'09 (with VLDB 2009).
• Advisory board member for the SIGMOD 2010 Programming Contest.
• Frequent program committee member at SIGMOD, VLDB, ICDE, CIDR, and various workshops.

Other community service:

• NSF CISE Advisory Committee (June 2017 - June 2020)
• ACM SIGMOD Secretary/Treasurer (July 2013 - June 2017)
• NSF Panelist.
• Associate Editor for the Systems and Prototypes Column, SIGMOD Record (June 2007 - August 2012).
• Co-chair of the ACM SIGMOD New Researcher Symposium (at SIGMOD 2007).
• Co-chair of the ACM SIGMOD Life After Graduation Symposium (at SIGMOD 2006).
• Co-founder of the Northwest Database Society (NWDS). January 2006.