Professor Tan Kian Lee has been elected
an Editor-in-Chief of the VLDB Journal, beginning Sept 2009 for six
years. The VLDB Journal is a premium quarterly journal published on
behalf of the VLDB Endowment. The journal is dedicated to the
publication of scholarly contributions to the advancement of
information system architectures, the impact of technological
advancements on information systems, and the development of novel
database applications. Very Large Data Base Endowment Inc. (VLDB
Endowment) is a non-profit organisation incorporated in the United
States for the sole purpose of promoting and exchanging scholarly
work in databases and related fields throughout the world.
Professor Tan is a faculty member and
deputy head of NUS School of Computing’s Department of Computer
Science. His research interests include: query processing and
optimisation, data indexing and organisation in advanced database
systems, database security, and peer-to-peer computing. Find out
more about him here.
