Professional Activities
Conferences
  1. International Conference on Very Large Data Bases (VLDB), 2022. AE.
  2. International Conference on Very Large Data Bases (VLDB), 2021. PC member.
  3. ACM International Conference on Management of Data (SIGMOD), 2021. AE.
  4. EDBT, ToT paper selection committee. 2021.
  5. ACM Symposium on Cloud Computing (SoCC), 2020. PC Chair.
  6. International Conference on Very Large Data Bases (VLDB), 2020. PC member. Best Paper award selection committee.
  7. International Conference on Very Large Data Bases (VLDB), 2019. Industry Track PC Chair.
  8. IEEE International Conference on Data Engineering (ICDE'18), 2018. PC Chair.
  9. ACM International Conference on Management of Data (SIGMOD), 2018. PC member.
  10. ACM International Conference on Management of Data (SIGMOD), 2017. PC member.
  11. ACM International Conference on Management of Data (SIGMOD), 2016. PC member.
  12. IEEE International Conference on Data Engineering (ICDE'15), 2015. PC member.
  13. 22nd International World Wide Web Conference (WWW-2014), 2014. PC member.
  14. ACM International Conference on Management of Data (SIGMOD), 2014. PC member.
  15. IEEE International Conference on Data Engineering (ICDE'14), 2014. PC member.
  16. ACM International Conference on Management of Data (SIGMOD), 2013. Tutorial selection committee.
  17. IEEE International Conference on Data Engineering (ICDE'13), 2013. Conference Chair.
  18. 21st International World Wide Web Conference (WWW-2013), 2013. PC member.
  19. 20th International World Wide Web Conference (WWW-2012), 2012. PC member.
  20. ACM International Conference on Management of Data (SIGMOD), 2012. PC member.
  21. IEEE International Conference on Data Engineering (ICDE'12), 2012. PC Chair.
  22. past activities: 1992-2010
Journals
  1. ACM/IMS Transactions on Data Science (TDS). Founding Editor-in-Chief, 2018-.
  2. ACM Communications of ACM (CACM). Editor. 2015 -
  3. IEEE Transactions on Cloud Computing. Editor. 2013-2019.
  4. Elsevier Journal of Big Data Research (JBDR). Founding co-Editor-in-Chief, 2014-2016.
  5. IEEE Transactions on Knowledge and Data Engineering (TKDE). Editor-in-Chief, 2009-2012
  6. Springer Distributed and Parallel Databases. Editor, 2008-2013.
  7. IEEE Transactions on Knowledge and Data Engineering. Editor, 2003-2007
  8. VLDB Journal. Springer Verlag, Editor, 2002-2007
  9. International Journal of Geographical Information Systems (Taylor&Francis). Editor, 1995-2005
  10. Geoinformatica (Kluwer Academics). Editor, 1997--2005
Trustee
  1. VLDB Endowment, Trustee board member. 2006-2017. Secretary: 2010-2013. President: 2014-2017.
Others
  1. Dagsthul Seminar on Distributed Computing with Permissioned Blockchains and Databases. Co-organizer. 2019.
  2. SIGMOD Jim Gray Best Thesis Award committee, co-Chair, 2008-2011. (Committee member. 2005-2008)
  3. Evaluator for promotion/new hire cases for various Universities in China, Hongkong, Taiwan, US, France, Canada.
  4. Evaluator for Grant Proposals for various overseas funding agencies.
Notes: years may have been entered wrongly unintentionally -- this only serves as general information.