Program Committee
Written by Sebastian Salvucci   
Thursday, 15 February 2007

Program Committee Chairs

  • Gustavo Alonso, ETH Zurich, Switzerland
  • Jose Blakeley, Microsoft, USA
  • Arbee Chen, National Chengchi University, Taiwan

Industrial Program Chairs

  • Ricardo Baeza-Yates, Yahoo! Research Latin America, Chile
  • Frank Leymann, University of Stuttgart, Germany
  • Guy Lohman, IBM, USA

Area PC Vice Chairs

  • Data Integration, Interoperability, and Metadata - Erhard Rahm, U. of Leipzig, Germany
  • Ubiquitous Data Management and Mobile Databases - Evi Pitoura, U. of Ioannina
  • Query processing, query optimization - Guido Moerkotte, U. of Mannheim, Germany
  • Data Structures and data management algorithms - Edward Chang, Google, Beijing
  • Data Privacy and Security - Bhavani Thuraisingham, U. of Texas at Dallas, USA
  • Data Mining Algorithms - Ming-Syan Chen, National Taiwan U.
  • Data Mining Systems, Data Warehousing, OLAP and Architectures - Sunita Sarawagi, IIT Bombay, India
  • XML data Processing, Filtering, Routing, and Algorithms - Hans-Arno Jacobsen, U. of Toronto, Canada
  • XML and Relational Query Languages, Mappings and Engines - Christoph Koch, U. of Saarbruecken, Germany
  • Distributed, Parallel, Peer to Peer Databases - Peter Triantafillou, University of Patras and Research Academic Computer Technology Institute, Greece
  • Web Search and Deep Web - Luis Gravano, Columbia University, USA
  • Databases for Science - Claudia Medeiros, U. of Campinas, Brazil
  • Internet Grids, Web Services, Web 2.0, and Mashups - Alon Halevy, Google, USA and Sihem Amer-Yahia, Yahoo!, USA
  • Data Streams - Ugur Cetintemel, Brown U., USA
  • Sensor Networks - Philippe Bonnet, U. of Copenhagen, Denmark
  • Temporal and Multimedia Databases, Algorithms and Data Structures - Christian Jensen, U. of Aalborg, Denmark
  • Spatial and High Dimensional Databases, Algorithms and Data Structures - Dimitris Papadias, Hong Kong U. of Science and Technology, Hong Kong
  • Systems, Platforms, Middleware, Applications and Experiences - Martin Kersten, CWI, The Netherlands
  • Database System Internals, Performance and Self-tuning - Anastasia Ailamaki, Carnegie Mellon U., USA

Program Committee Members

  • Karl Aberer - EPFL, Switzerland
  • Ashraf Aboulnaga - University of Waterloo, Canada
  • Charu Aggarwal - IBM T. J. Watson Research Center, USA
  • Eugene Agichtein - Emory University, USA
  • Sanjay Agrawal - Microsoft Research, USA
  • Sihem Amer-Yahia - Yahoo! Research, USA
  • Cristiana Amza - University of Toronto, Canada
  • Nicolas Anciaux - INRIA, France
  • Walid Aref - Purdue University, USA
  • Paolo Atzeni - Universita' Roma Tre, Italy
  • Magda Balazinska - University of Washington, USA
  • Denilson Barbosa - University of Calgary, Canada
  • Steve Barker - University of London, UK
  • Peter Baumann - International University Bremen, Germany
  • Roberto Bayardo - Google, USA
  • Michael Benedikt - Oxford University, UK
  • Omar Benjelloun - Google, USA
  • Phil Bernstein - Microsoft Research, USA
  • Elisa Bertino - Purdue University, USA
  • Claudio Bettini - Università degli Studi di Milano, Italy
  • Michael H. Boehlen - Free University of Bolzano-Bozen, Italy
  • Philip Bohannon - Yahoo! Research, USA
  • Peter Boncz - CWI, The Netherlands
  • Angela Bonifati - Italian National Research Council, Italy
  • Diego Calvanese - Free University of Bozen-Bolzano, Italy
  • Deepayan Chakrabarti - Yahoo! Research, USA
  • Chia-Hui Chang - National Central University, Taiwan
  • Edgar Chávez - Universidad de Michoacán, Mexico
  • Lei Chen - HKUST, Hong Kong
  • Phoebe Chen - Deakin University, Australia
  • Shimin Chen - Intel Research, USA
  • Kevin Chen-Chuan Chang - University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign, USA
  • Lee-Feng Chien - Academia Sinica, Taiwan
  • Byron Choi - Nanyang Technological University, Singapore
  • Chris Clifton - Purdue University, USA
  • Stefan Conrad - University of Duesseldorf, Germany
  • Bryan Cooper - Yahoo! Research, USA
  • Nick Craswell - Microsoft Research Cambridge, UK
  • Nicandro Cruz - University Veracruzana, Mexico
  • Hang Cui - Google, China
  • Prasad M. Deshpande - IBM India, Bangalore, India
  • Alin Deutsch - University of California, San Diego, USA
  • Yanlei Diao - University of Massachusetts, Amherst, USA
  • Klaus R. Dittrich - University of Zurich, Switzerland
  • Hong-Hai Do - SAP Research, Germany
  • Anhai Doan - University of Wisconsin-Madison, USA
  • Wenfei Fan - University of Edinburgh, UK
  • Alvaro Fernandes - University of Manchester, UK
  • Mary F. Fernández - AT&T Labs, USA
  • Elena Ferrari - University Como, Italy
  • Juliana Freire - University of Utah, USA, and Linköping University, Sweden
  • Ada Fu - The Chinese University of Hong Kong, Hong Kong
  • Cesar Galindo Legaria - Microsoft, USA
  • Stéphane Gançarski - University P&M Curie, France
  • Deepak Ganesan - University of Massachusetts, USA
  • Minos Garofalakis - Yahoo! Research and UC Berkeley, USA
  • Bugra Gedik - IBM Thomas J. Watson Research Center, USA
  • Joydeep Ghosh - The University of Texas at Austin, USA
  • Goetz Graefe - HP Labs, USA
  • Benjamin Greenstein - Intel Research , USA
  • Torsten Grust - Technische Universität München, Germany
  • Lin Gu - Google, USA
  • Jiawei Han - University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign, USA
  • Howard Ho - IBM Almaden Research Center, USA
  • Hui-I Hsiao - IBM Almaden Research Center, USA
  • Panagiotis G. Ipeirotis - New York University, USA
  • Zachary Ives - University of Pennsylvania, USA
  • Ted Johnson - AT&T Labs, USA
  • Jaewoo Kang - North Carolina State University, USA
  • Murat Kantarcioglu - University of Texas at Dallas, USA
  • Holger Karl - University of Paderborn, Germany
  • Jonas S Karlsson - Google, USA
  • Anastatios Kementsietsidis - University of Edinburgh, UK
  • Anne-Marie Kermarrec - INRIA, France
  • Maurice van Keulen - University of Twente, The Netherlands
  • Masaru Kitsuregawa - University of Tokyo, Japan
  • George Kollios - Boston University, USA
  • Flip Korn - AT&T Labs, USA
  • Manolis Koubarakis - National and Kapodistrian University of Athens, Greece
  • Nick Koudas - University of Toronto, Canada
  • Alexandros Labrinidis - University of Pittsburgh, USA
  • Paul Larson - Microsoft Research, USA
  • Juan C. Lavariega-Jarquin - ITESM-Monterrey, Mexico
  • Wang-Chien Lee - Pennsylvania State University, USA
  • Wolfgang Lehner - Dresden University of Technology, Germany
  • Ronny Lempel - IBM Haifa Research Lab, Israel
  • Chen Li - University of California at Irvine, USA
  • Chung-Sheng Li - IBM T.J. Watson Research Center, USA
  • Wolfgang Lindner - University of Erlangen-Nuremberg, Germany
  • Bing Liu - University of Illinois at Chicago, USA
  • Peng Liu - Penn State University, USA
  • Bertram Ludaescher - University of California at Davis, USA
  • Qiong Luo - The Hong Kong University of Science and Technology, Hong Kong
  • Nikos Mamoulis - University of Hong Kong, Hong Kong
  • Ioana Manolescu - INRIA Futurs, France
  • Wim Martens - Universität Dortmund, Germany
  • Sergey Melnik - Microsoft Research, USA
  • Nine Mishra - University of Virginia, USA
  • Kyriakos Mouratidis - Singapore Management University, Singapore
  • Muthu Muthukrisan - Rutgers University, USA
  • Suman Nath - Microsoft Research, USA
  • Gonzalo Navarro - University of Chile, Chile
  • Thomas Neumann - Max-Planck-Institut Informatik, Germany
  • Raymond T. Ng - The University of British Columbia, Canada
  • Shojiro NISHIO - Osaka University, Japan
  • Silvia Nittel - University of Maine, USA
  • Dan Olteanu - Universitaet des Saarlandes, Germany
  • Péter Pál Boda - Nokia Research Center, USA
  • Jignesh M. Patel - University of Michigan, USA
  • Marta Patino-Martinez - Universidad Politecnica de Madrid, Spain
  • Jian Pei - Simon Fraser University, Canada
  • Wen-Chih Peng - National Chia-Tung University, Taiwan
  • Neoklis Polyzotis - University of California Santa Cruz, USA
  • Lucian Popa - IBM Almaden Research Center, USA
  • Sunil Prabhakar - Purdue University, USA
  • Jun Rao - IBM Almaden Research Center, USA
  • Mirek Riedewald - Cornell University, USA
  • Tore Risch - Uppsala University, Sweden
  • John Roddick - Flinders University, South Australia
  • Elke Rundensteiner - Worcester Polytechnic Institute, USA
  • Joerg Sander - University of Alberta, Canada
  • Bernhard Seeger - University of Marburg, Germany
  • Thomas Seidl - RWTH Aachen University, Germany
  • Cyrus Shahabi - University of Southern California, USA
  • Jayavel Shanmugasundaram - Yahoo! Research, USA
  • Kyuseok Shim - Seoul National University, Korea
  • Jerome Simeon - IBM Research, USA
  • Ambuj Singh - University of California at Santa Barbara, USA
  • Torsten Suel - Polytechnic University, USA
  • Richard T. Snodgrass - University of Arizona, USA
  • Kian-Lee Tan - National University of Singapore, Singapore
  • Yufei Tao - Chinese University of Hong Kong, Hong Kong
  • Nesime Tatbul - ETH Zurich, Switzerland
  • Andreas Terzis - Johns Hopkins University, USA
  • Yannis Theodoridis - University of Piraeus, Greece
  • Vassilis Tsotras - University of California at Riverside, USA
  • Anthony Tung - National University of Singapore, Singapore
  • Can Turker - UNI/ETH Zurich, Switzerland
  • James Wang - The Pennsylvania State University, USA
  • Kyu-Young Whang - KAIST, Korea
  • Sean Wang - University of Vermont, USA
  • Wei Wang - University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill, USA
  • Gerhard Weikum - Max-Planck-Institut Informatik, Germany
  • Jun Yang - Duke University, USA
  • Ke Yi - AT&T Labs, USA
  • Philip Yu - IBM T. J. Watson Research Center, USA
  • Mohammad Zaki - Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute, USA
  • Carlo Zaniolo - University of California at Los Angeles, USA
  • Donghui Zhang - Northeastern University, USA
  • Jingren Zhou - Microsoft Research, USA

Industrial Program Committee

  • Renato Barrera - UNAM, Mexico
  • Alfonso Cardenas - UCLA, USA
  • Pedro Celis - Microsoft, USA
  • Surajit Chaudhuri - Microsoft Research, USA
  • Christoph Freytag - Humboldt University, Germany
  • David Garza - ITESM, Mexico
  • Claudio Gutierrez - Univ. of Chile, Chile
  • Jayant Haritsa - Indian Institute of Science Bangalore, India
  • Meichun Hsu - HP Labs, China
  • Ihab Ilyas - University of Waterloo, Canada
  • Vanja Josifovski - Yahoo! Research, USA
  • Alberto Laender - UFMG, Brazil
  • Wolfgang Lehner - TU Dresden, Germany
  • Bernard Mitschang - Univ. Stuttgart, Germany
  • Jussi Myllymaki - Google, USA
  • Raghu Ramakrishnan - Yahoo! Research, USA
  • Harald Schoening - Software AG, Germany
  • Honesty Young - IBM China Research Lab, China
  • Calisto Zuzarte - IBM Toronto Lab, Canada

Demonstration Program Committee

  • Mehmet Altinel - IBM Almaden, USA
  • Andrey Balmin - IBM Almaden, USA
  • Djamal Benslimane - Univ. of Lyon, France
  • Elisa Bertino - Purdue University, USA
  • Chris Bussler - BEA Systems Inc., USA
  • Fabio Casati - University of Trento, Italy
  • Sang K. Cha - Seoul National University, Korea
  • Bing Cui - Peiking University, China
  • Andreas Geppert - Credit Suisse
  • Manfred Hauswirth - DERI Galway, Ireland
  • Yoshiharu Ishikawa - Nagoya University, Japan
  • Qing Li - City University of H-K, China
  • Stefan Manegold - CWI Netherland
  • Felix Naumann - Hasso-Plattner-Institue, Germany
  • Beng Chin Ooi - National University of Singapore, Singapore
  • Fatma Özcan - IBM Almaden, USA
  • Wasim Sadiq - SAP Research Labs, Australia
  • Ming-Chien Shan - SAP Research Labs, Palo Alto, USA
  • Keishi Tajima - Kyoto University, Japan

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