VLDB 2021: Conference Awards

Best Research Paper Award

Scaling Attributed Network Embedding to Massive Graphs Renchi Yang (National University of Singapore), Jieming Shi (The Hong Kong Polytechnic University), Xiaokui Xiao (National University of Singapore), Yin Yang (Hamad bin Khalifa University), Juncheng Liu (National University of Singapore), Sourav S Bhowmick (Nanyang Technological University)

Best Experiments, Analysis & Benchmark Paper Award

Are We Ready For Learned Cardinality Estimation? Xiaoying Wang (Simon Fraser University), Changbo Qu (Simon Fraser University), Weiyuan Wu (Simon Fraser University), Jiannan Wang (Simon Fraser University), Qingqing Zhou (Tencent Inc.)

Best Scalable Data Science Paper Award

Optimizing Bipartite Matching in Real-World Applications by Incremental Cost Computation Tenindra Abeywickrama (GrabTaxi Holdings Pte Ltd), Victor Liang (GrabTaxi Holdings Pte Ltd), Kian-Lee Tan (National University of Singapore)

Best Industry Paper Award

RAMP-TAO: Layering Atomic Transactions on Facebook's Online TAO Data Store Audrey Cheng (UC Berkeley), Xiao Shi (Facebook, Inc.), Lu Pan (Facebook, Inc.), Anthony Simpson (Facebook, Inc.), Neil Wheaton (Facebook, Inc.), Shilpa Lawande (Facebook, Inc.), Nathan Bronson (Rockset), Peter Bailis (Sisu Data), Natacha Crooks (UC Berkeley), Ion Stoica (UC Berkeley)

Best Demonstration Award

AutoExecutor: Predictive Parallelism for Spark SQL Queries Rathijit Sen (Microsoft), Abhishek Roy (Microsoft), Alekh Jindal (Microsoft), Rui Fang (Microsoft), Jeff Zheng (Microsoft), Xiaolei Liu (Microsoft), Ruiping Li (Microsoft)

Distinguished Associate Editor Award

Zhifeng Bao, RMIT University, Australia
Arun Kumar, UC San Diego, United States
Yufei Tao, Chinese University of Hong Kong, China
Graham Cormode, University of Warwick, United Kingdom

Distinguished Reviewer Award

Ashwin Machanavajjhala, Duke University, United States
Boris Glavic, Illinois Institute of Technology, United States
Chris Jermaine, Rice University, United States
George Fletcher, TU Eindhoven, Netherlands
Ingo Müller, ETH Zürich, Switzerland
Jennie Rogers, Northwestern University, United States
Ju Fan, Renmin University of China, China
Khuzaima Daudjee, University of Waterloo, Canada
Laurel Orr, Stanford University, United States
Lei Chen, Hong Kong University of Science and Technology, Hong Kong SAR
Marco Serafini, University of Massachusetts Amherst, United States
Marcos Antonio Vaz Salles, University of Copenhagen (DIKU), Denmark
Mohamed Mokbel, Qatar Computing Research Institute (QCRI), Qatar
Mourad Ouzzani, Qatar Computing Research Institute, HBKU, Qatar
Nan Tang, Qatar Computing Research Institute, HBKU, Qatar
Norman May, SAP SE, Germany
Odysseas Papapetrou, TU Eindhoven, Netherlands
Oliver A. Kennedy, University at Buffalo, SUNY, United States
Raul Castro Fernandez, University of Chicago, United States
Saravanan Thirumuruganathan, Qatar Computing Research Institute, HBKU, Qatar
K. Selçuk Candan, Arizona State University, United States
Srikanth Kandula, Microsoft Research, United States
Sudeepa Roy, Duke University, United States
Tamer Özsu, University of Waterloo, Canada
Thomas Neumann, TU Munich, Germany
Wendy Hui Wang, Stevens Institute of Technology, United States
Xi He, University of Waterloo, Canada
Xiaolan Wang, Megagon Labs, United States
Xu Chu, Georgia Tech, United States
Yeye He, Microsoft Research, United States
Yuchen Li, Singapore Management University, Singapore