VLDB 2026: Conference Officers

Angela Bonifati, Lyon 1 University & IUF, France

Mirek Riedewald, Northeastern University, USA

Yanlei Diao, Ecole Polytechnique and Amazon Web Services

Xiaokui Xiao, National University of Singapore

Ashraf Aboulnaga, University of Texas at Arlington

Michael H Böhlen, University of Zurich

Zhifeng Bao, RMIT University

Spyros Blanas, The Ohio State University

Angela Bonifati, University of Lyon

Lei Cao, University of Arizona

Raul Castro Fernandez, The University of Chicago

Bogdan Cautis, University of Paris-Saclay

Badrish Chandramouli, Microsoft Research

Lei Chen, Hong Kong University of Science and Technology

Shimin Chen, Chinese Academy of Sciences

Yi Chen, NJIT

Hong Cheng, Chinese University of Hong Kong

Reynold Cheng, The University of Hong Kong, China

Bin Cui, Peking University

Sudipto Das, Amazon Web Services

Khuzaima Daudjee, University of Waterloo

Niv Dayan, University of Toronto

Antonis Deligiannakis, Technical University of Crete

Anh Dinh, Deakin University

Karima Echihabi, Mohammed VI Polytechnic University

Elena Ferrari, University of Insubria, Varese

Jana Giceva, TU Munich

Wook-Shin Han, POSTECH

Melanie Herschel, Nanyang Technological University

Katja Hose, TU Wien

Zi Helen Huang, University of Queensland

Laks V.S. Lakshmanan, University of British Columbia

Norman May, SAP SE

Ruben Mayer, University of Bayreuth

Umar Farooq Minhas, Apple

Fatemeh Nargesian, University of Rochester

Kunsoo Park, Seoul National University

Andrew Pavlo, Carnegie Mellon University

Jian Pei, Duke University

Evaggelia Pitoura, University of Ioannina

Alkis Polyzotis, Databricks

Jennie Rogers, Northwestern University

Sourav S Bhowmick, Nanyang Technological University

Semih Salihoglu, University of Waterloo

Yanyan Shen, Shanghai Jiao Tong University

Kyuseok Shim, Seoul National University

Alkis Simitsis, Athena Research Center

Mauro Sozio, Telecom Paris, Institut Polytechnique de Paris

Nan Tang, HKUST (GZ)

Immanuel Trummer, Cornell University

Yannis Velegrakis, Utrecht University

Sibo Wang, The Chinese University of Hong Kong

Wei Wang, ByteDance

Steven E Whang, KAIST

Raymond Chi-Wing Wong, Hong Kong University of Science and Technology

Yuncheng Wu, Renmin University of China

Li Xiong, Emory University

Jianliang Xu, Hong Kong Baptist University

Ce Zhang, University of Chicago

Meihui Zhang, Beijing Institute of Technology

Ahmed S. Abdelhamid, Purdue University

Tenindra Abeywickrama, RIKEN

Tristan Allard, Univ Rennes, CNRS, IRISA

Rana Alotaibi, Saudi Data and AI Authority (SDAIA)

Ahmed Aly, Google

Mohammad Javad Amiri, Stony Brook University

Yael Amsterdamer, Bar-Ilan University

Giuseppina Andresini, University of Bari Aldo Moro

Alexander Artikis, University of Piraeus

Jees Augustine, Microsoft

Ilias Azizi, Mohammed VI Polytechnic University

Farnoush Banaei-Kashani, University of Colorado Denver

Ergute Bao, National University of Singapore

Johes Bater, Tufts University

Srikanta Bedathur, IIT Delhi

Kaustubh Beedkar, Indian Institute of Technology Delhi

Karim Benouaret, Univ Lyon

Elisa Bertino, Purdue University

Leopoldo Bertossi, SKEMA Business School, Montreal, Canada

Matthias Boehm, Technische Universität Berlin

Antonio Boffa, EPFL

Alexander Böhm, SAP SE

Paul Boniol, Inria, Ecole normale supérieure

Renata Borovica-Gajic, University of Melbourne

Ria Borromeo, University of Philippines

Panagiotis Bouros, Johannes Gutenberg University Mainz

Lucas Braun, Oracle Labs

Michael J Cahill, University of Sydney

Jesús Camacho-Rodríguez, Microsoft

K. Selçuk Candan, Arizona State University

Yang Cao, Institute of Science Tokyo

Zhao Cao, Remin University

Larissa Capobianco Shimomura, University of Stuttgart

Loredana Caruccio, University of Salerno

Matteo Ceccarello, University of Padova

Jeeta Ann Chacko, Technical University of Munich

Harry Kai-Ho Chan, The University of Sheffield

Tsz Nam Chan, Shenzhen University

Surajit Chaudhuri, Microsoft

Cindy Chen, University of Massachusetts Lowell

Lu Chen, Zhejiang University

Tong Chen, The University of Queensland

Rada Chirkova, NC State University

Theodoros Chondrogiannis, Norwegian University of Science and Technology (NTNU)

Shihabur Chowdhury, Apple

George Christodoulou, TU Delft

Periklis Chrysogelos, Oracle

Lingyang Chu, McMaster University

Gao Cong, Nanyang Technological Univesity

Carlo Curino, Microsoft

Patrick Damme, Technische Universität Berlin

Ioannis Demertzis, UCSC

Dong Deng, Rutgers University - New Brunswick

Shimin Di, Hong Kong University of Science and Technology

Djellel Difallah, NYU

Jialin Ding, Amazon Web Services

Zeyu Ding, Binghamton University

Jaeyoung Do, Seoul National University

Wei Dong, Nanyang Technological University

Christos Doulkeridis, University of Pireaus

Eduard Dragut, Temple Univ.

Stefania Dumbrava, ENSIIE

Dominik Durner, CedarDB

Ahmed Eldawy, University of California, Riverside

Mohamed Eltabakh, Qatar Foundation

Amarnadh Sai Eluri, Google

Mahdi Esmailoghli, TU Berlin

Ju Fan, Renmin University of China

Wenqi Fan, The Hong Kong Polytechnic University

Zhiwei Fan, Meta

Yixiang Fang, The Chinese University of Hong Kong, Shenzhen

Donatella Firmani, Sapienza University

Peter M. Fischer, University of Augsburg

Sara Foresti, Universita' degli Studi di Milano

Luca Gagliardelli, eCampus University

Sainyam Galhotra, Cornell University

Junhao Gan, University of Melbourne

Paolo Garza, Politecnico di Torino

Garima Gaur, INRIA

Chang Ge, University of Minnesota

Tingjian Ge, University of Massachusetts, Lowell

Rainer Gemulla, Universität Mannheim

Aristides Gionis, KTH Royal Institute of Technology

Boris Glavic, University of Illinois Chicago

Lukasz Golab, University of Waterloo

Jonathan Goldstein, Microsoft

Christan Grant, University of Florida

Sven Groppe, Universität zu Lübeck/Institute of Information Systems (IFIS)

Michael Grossniklaus, University of Konstanz

Le Gruenwald, The University of Oklahoma

Michael Gubanov, Florida State University

Francesco Gullo, University of L'Aquila

Florian Hahn, University of Twente

Rihan Hai, TU Delft

Hazar Harmouch, University of Amsterdam

Tanzima Hashem, Bangladesh University of Engineering and Technology

Oktie Hassanzadeh, IBM Research

Xi He, University of Waterloo

Yeye He, Microsoft Research

Jelle Hellings, McMaster University

Jan Hidders, Birkbeck, University of London

Meichun Hsu, Oracle America

Haibo Hu, Hong Kong Polytechnic University

Xiao Hu, University of Waterloo

Xin Huang, Hong Kong Baptist University

Yan Huang, University of North Texas

Matteo Interlandi, Microsoft

Fuad Jamour, Amazon Web Services

Søren Kejser Jensen, Aalborg University

Jiawei Jiang, Wuhan University

Hyungsoo Jung, Seoul National University

Eser Kandogan, Megagon Labs

Daniel Kang, UIUC

Verena Kantere, University of Ottawa

Zoi Kaoudi, IT University of Copenhagen

Bojan Karlaš, Harvard University

Panagiotis Karras, University of Copenhagen

Xiangyu Ke, Zhejiang University

Oliver A Kennedy, University at Buffalo, SUNY

Arijit Khan, Aalborg University

Junghoon Kim, UNIST

Kyoungmin Kim, EPFL

Herald Kllapi, Google Inc

Lefteris Kokoris Kogias, MystenLabs

Haridimos Kondylakis, FORTH-ICS & Computer Science Department, University of Crete

Arnd Christian König, Microsoft

Chrysanthi Kosyfaki, The University of Hong Kong

Nick Koudas, University of Toronto

Christos Koutras, New York University

Guillaume Lachaud, Ecole Polytechnique

Wang-Chien Lee, Pennsylvania State University, USA

Chuan Lei, Amazon Web Services

Viktor Leis, Technische Universität München

Alberto Lerner, University of Fribourg, Switzerland

Ulf Leser, Humboldt-Universität zu Berlin

Chengkai Li, The University of Texas at Arlington

Jia Li, Hong Kong University of Science and Technology

Jianxin Li, Edith Cowan University

Ruiyuan Li, Chongqing University

Tianyi Li, Aalborg University

Yinan Li, Microsoft Research

Xiang Lian, Kent State University

Liang Liang, EPFL

Sebastian Link, University of Auckland

Chunwei Liu, MIT

Dumitrel Loghin, OKX

Cheng Long, Nanyang Technological University

Grigorios Loukides, King's College London

Hua Lu, Aalborg University

WEI LU, Renmin University of China

Yao Lu, NUS

Siqiang Luo, Nanyang Technological University

Yuyu Luo, HKUST (GZ)

Manisha Luthra, TU Darmstadt

Chenghao Lyu, Amazon Web Services

Chenhao Ma, The Chinese University of Hong Kong, Shenzhen

Amr Magdy, University of California, Riverside

Ahmed Mahmood, Google

Silviu Maniu, Université Grenoble Alpes

Essam Mansour, Concordia University

Ryan Marcus, University of Pennsylvania

Amelie Marian, Rutgers University

Markos Markakis, Massachusetts Institute of Technology

Andrea Mauri, Lyon 1 University

Ryan McKenna, Google

Venkata Vamsikrishna Meduri, IBM Research - Almaden

Sharad Mehrotra, University of California, Irvine

Paolo Merialdo, Università degli Studi Roma Tre

Amine Mhedhbi, Polytechnique Montréal

Xupeng Miao, Purdue University

Sebastian Michel, RPTU Kaiserslautern-Landau

Mostafa Milani, The University of Western Ontario

Michael J Mior, Rochester Institute of Technology

Katsiaryna Mirylenka, Zalando SE

Paolo Missier, University of Birmingham

Guido Moerkotte, University of Mannheim

Madhulika Mohanty, Inria Saclay

Mohamed Mokbel, University of Minnesota - Twin Cities

Kyriakos Mouratidis, Singapore Management University

Magnus Mueller, Amazon Web Services

Vivek Narasayya, Microsoft

Vikram Nathan, Amazon, Inc.

Joseph Near, University of Vermont

Thomas Neumann, TUM

Matthaios Olma, MongoDB

Makoto Onizuka, Osaka University

Prashant Pandey, Northeastern University

George Papadakis, University of Athens

John Paparrizos, The Ohio State University

George Papastefanatos, ATHENA Research Center

Paolo Papotti, EURECOM

Stefano Paraboschi, Universita' degli Studi di Bergamo

Kwanghyun Park, Yonsei University

Yongjoo Park, UIUC

Eliana Pastor, Politecnico di Torino

Jignesh Patel, Carnegie Mellon University

Marco Patella, University of Bologna

Torben Bach Pedersen, Aalborg University

Peng Peng, Hunan University

Matthew J Perron, Microsoft

Ilia Petrov, Reutlingen University

Holger Pirk, Imperial College

Romila Pradhan, Purdue University

Martin Prammer, Carnegie Mellon University

Miao Qiao, The University of Auckland

Yuan Qiu, CNRS@CREATE & National University of Singapore

Abdul Quamar, Google

Davood Rafiei, University of Alberta

Protiva Rahman, University of Florida

Indrakshi Ray, Colorado State University

Berthold Reinwald, IBM Research - Almaden

El Kindi Rezig, University of Utah

Manuel Rigger, National University of Singapore

Daniel Ritter, SAP

Oscar Romero, Universitat Politècnica de Catalunya

Yu Rong, Tencent AI Lab

Kenneth A Ross, Columbia University

Abhishek Roy, Microsft

Florin Rusu, UC Merced

Ibrahim Sabek, University of Southern California

Mohammad Sadoghi, University of California, Davis

Soror Sahri, Université Paris Cité

Pierangela Samarati, Universita degli Studi di Milano

Subhadeep Sarkar, Brandeis University

Ritesh Sarkhel, Amazon

Kai-Uwe Sattler, TU Ilmenau

Patrick Schäfer, Humboldt-Universität zu Berlin

Felix M Schuhknecht, Johannes Gutenberg University Mainz

Maximilian E Schüle, University of Bamberg

William Schultz, MongoDB

Jiwon Seo, Seoul National University

Vivek Shah, Samsung

Rana Shahout, Harvard

Amir Shaikhha, University of Edinburgh

Shantanu Sharma, New Jersey Institute of Technology

Jieming Shi, The Hong Kong Polytechnic University

Roee Shraga, WPI

Georgios Siachamis, Inria

Tarique Siddiqui, Microsoft Research

Utku Sirin, Harvard University

Dimitrios Skoutas, Athena Research Center

Shaoxu Song, Tsinghua University

Alberto Sonnino, MystenLabs & University College London

Kostas Stefanidis, Tampere University

Kurt Stockinger, Zurich University of Applied Sciences

KI HYUN TAE, Samsung Research

Dixin Tang, The University of Texas, Austin

Bo Tang, Southern University of Science and Technology

Egemen Tanin, University of Melbourne

Arash Termehchy, Oregon State University

Jens Teubner, TU Dortmund University

Georgios Theodorakis, Neo4j

Donato Tiano, Università degli Studi di Modena e Reggio Emilia

Yongxin Tong, Beihang University

Riccardo Torlone, Roma Tre University

Goce Trajcevski, Iowa State University

Eleni Tzirita Zacharatou, Hasso Plattner Institute (HPI)

Katerina Tzompanaki, CY Cergy Paris University

Leong Hou U, University of Macau

Alexander van Renen, UTN

Enzo Veltri, Università della Basilicata

Nalini Venkatasubramanian, University of California, Irvine

Hannes Voigt, Neo4j

Domagoj Vrgoč, PUC

Hongzhi Wang, Harbin Institute of Technology

Jianguo Wang, Purdue University

Jiannan Wang, Simon Fraser University

Jin Wang, Megagon Labs

Qitong Wang, Harvard University

Tianzheng Wang, Simon Fraser University

Yang Wang, The Ohio State University

Yifan Wang, University of Hawaii

Yuke Wang, Rice University

Zhewei Wei, Renmin University of China

Matthias Weidlich, Humboldt-Universität zu Berlin

Sai Wu, Zhejiang University

Yinghui Wu, Case Western Reserve University

Yingtai Xiao, TikTok

Dong Xie, Penn State University

Xike Xie, University of Science and Technology of China

Nikolay Yakovets, TU Eindhoven

Xiao Yan, Centre for Perceptual and Interactive Intelligence (CPII)

Bin Yang, Aalborg University

Renchi Yang, Hong Kong Baptist University

Yin Yang, Hamad bin Khalifa University

Yu Yang, City University of Hong Kong

Qingqing Ye, Hong Kong Polytechnic University

Man Lung Yiu, Hong Kong Polytechnic University

Brit Youngmann, Technion

Jeffrey Xu Yu, Chinese University of Hong Kong

Ting Yu, MBZUAI

Xiangyao Yu, University of Wisconsin-Madison

Xiaohui Yu, York University

Ye Yuan, Beijing Institute of Technology

Cong Yue, National University of Singapore

Sepanta Zeighami, University of California Berkeley

Demetrios Zeinalipour-Yazti, University of Cyprus

Steffen Zeuch, TU Berlin

Chao Zhang, University of Waterloo

Gengrui Zhang, Concordia University

Hantian Zhang, Google

Huanchen Zhang, Tsinghua University

Qizhen Zhang, University of Toronto

Wentao Zhang, Peking University

Bo Zhao, Aalto University

Zhuoyue Zhao, University at Buffalo

Baihua Zheng, Singapore Management University

Weiguo Zheng, Fudan University

Yongluan Zhou, University of Copenhagen

Yiwen Zhu, Microsoft

Jia Zou, Arizona State University

Lei Zou, Peking University

Andreas Züfle, Emory University

Calisto Zuzarte, IBM

Manos Athanassoulis, Boston University, USA

Dmytro Bogatov, Amazon Web Services, USA