Activities

Current Activities

Book Series

• Advanced Information and Knowledge Processing, Springer, Editorial Board Member
• Web Information Systems Engineering and Internet Technologies, Springer, Editorial Board Member

Journals

• ACM/IMS Journal on Data Science, Senior Editor
• ACM Transactions on Internet Technologies, Associate Editor
• World Wide Web Journal, Editorial Board Member
• Frontiers of Computer Science, Editorial Board Member
• International Journal of Next-Generation Computing, Advisory Board Member
• Proceedings of VLDB Endowment, Associate Editor (Volumes 16 - 18)

Conference

• Organizer, Workshop on LLM+Databases at ICDE 2025
• Area Chair, ICDE 2025 - 41st IEEE International Conference on Data Engineering, Hong Kong, China, 19023 May 2025.   
• Senior PC Member, EDBT 2026 - 28th International Conference on Extending Database Technology, Tempere, Finland, 24-27 March 2026.
• Senior PC Member, EDBT 2025 - 27th International Conference on Extending Database Technology, Barcelona, Spain, 25-28 March 2025.

Board Memberships

• Advisory/Steering Committee Chair, Polytechnic University of Hong Kong Research Centre on Data Science and AI (2021-present)
• Academic Advisory Committee Member, Istanbul Technical University Artificial Intelligence and Data Science Application and Research Centre (2020-present)
• Advisory Board Member, Hong Kong University of Science and Technology, Department of Computer Science and Engineering (2020-present)
• Technical Advisory Board Member, Tsinghua University National Engineering Laboratory for Big Data Software (2017–present)
• Advisory Board Member, Hong Kong University of Science and Technology, Big Data Institute (2017-present)

Selected Past Activities

• ACM Books, Founding Editor-in-Chief (2013-2019)
• Morgan & Claypool Synthesis Lectures on Data Management, Founding Series Editor (2009-2013)
• Chair, ACM Special Interest Group on Management of Data (SIGMOD) (2001-2005)
• Trustee, VLDB Endowment (1996-2002)
• Board Member, CS-Can/Info-Can (2017-2019)
• Proceedings of VLDB Endowment Advisory Board Member, (2014-2021)
• Technical Expert Advisory Committee Member, City University of Hong Kong, Multimedia Software Engineering Research Center (2014-1019)
• ACM Publications Board (2003--2017)
• International Advisory Board Member, National Institute of Informatics, Japan (2011-2018)
• Academic Advisory Committee Member, Hong Kong University of Science and Technology, School of Engineering (2009 - 2014 & 2017-2020)
• Advisory Board Chair, Hong Kong University of Science and Technology, Department of Computer Science and Engineering (2014-2017)
• Coordinating Editor-in-Chief, The VLDB Journal (2001-2005; Co-EIC: 1997-2001).
• Associate Editor, ACM Computing Surveys (2005-2009).
• Springer Book Series on Advanced Information & Knowledge Processing, Editorial Board Member (2002-2013)
• Information Technology and Management, Editorial Board Member (2000-2013)
• CRA Board of Directors, Canadian Association of Computer Science (CACS) Representative (2010-2013)

Last update: 6 March 2025