VLDB 2026: Conference Officers
General Chairs
Angela Bonifati,
Lyon 1 University & IUF, France
Mirek Riedewald,
Northeastern University, USA
Program Committee Chairs
Yanlei Diao,
Ecole Polytechnique and Amazon Web Services, France
Xiaokui Xiao,
National University of Singapore, Singapore
Associate Editors
Alkis Polyzotis,
Databricks
Alkis Simitsis,
Athena Research Center
Andrew Pavlo,
Carnegie Mellon University
Angela Bonifati,
Univ. of Lyon
Anh Dinh,
Deakin University
Antonis Deligiannakis,
Technical University of Crete
Ashraf Aboulnaga,
University of Texas at Arlington
Badrish Chandramouli,
Microsoft Research
Bin Cui,
Peking University
Bogdan Cautis,
University of Paris-Saclay
Ce Zhang,
University of Chicago
Elena Ferrari,
University of Insubria, Varese
Evaggelia Pitoura,
Univ. of Ioannina
Fatemeh Nargesian,
University of Rochester
Guoliang Li,
Tsinghua University
Hong Cheng,
Chinese University of Hong Kong
Immanuel Trummer,
Cornell University
Jana Giceva,
TU Munich
Jennie Rogers,
Northwestern University
Jian Pei,
Duke University
Jianliang Xu,
Hong Kong Baptist University
Karima Echihabi,
Mohammed VI Polytechnic University
Katja Hose,
TU Wien
Khuzaima Daudjee,
University of Waterloo
Kunsoo Park,
Seoul National University
Kyuseok Shim,
Seoul National University
Laks Lakshmanan,
The University of British Columbia
Lei Cao,
University of Arizona
Lei Chen,
Hong Kong University of Science and Technology
Li Xiong,
Emory University
Mauro Sozio,
Luiss University of Rome
Meihui Zhang,
Beijing Institute of Technology
Melanie Herschel,
Nanyang Technological University
Michael Böhlen,
University of Zurich
Nan Tang,
HKUST (GZ)
Niv Dayan,
University of Toronto
Norman May,
SAP SE
Raul Castro Fernandez,
The University of Chicago
Raymond Chi-Wing Wong,
Hong Kong University of Science and Technology
Reynold Cheng,
The University of Hong Kong, China
Ruben Mayer,
University of Bayreuth
Semih Salihoglu,
University of Waterloo
Shimin Chen,
Chinese Academy of Sciences
Sibo Wang,
The Chinese University of Hong Kong
Sourav S Bhowmick,
Nanyang Technological University
Spyros Blanas,
The Ohio State University
Steven Whang,
KAIST
Sudipto Das,
Amazon Web Services
Umar Farooq Minhas,
Apple
Wei Wang,
ByteDance
Wook-Shin Han,
POSTECH
Yannis Velegrakis,
Utrecht University
Yanyan Shen,
Shanghai Jiao Tong University
Yi Chen,
NJIT
Yuncheng Wu,
Renmin University of China
Zhifeng Bao,
The University of Queensland
Zi Huang,
University of Queensland
Proceedings Chairs
Subhadeep Sarkar,
Brandeis University, USA, subhadeep@brandeis.edu
Giovanni Simonini,
University of Modena and Reggio Emilia, Italy, simonini@unimore.it
Siqiang Luo,
Nanyang Technological University, siqiang.luo@ntu.edu.sg
Mauri Andrea,
Université Claude Bernard Lyon 1, France, andrea.mauri@univ-lyon1.fr
Stefan Thomas Halfpap,
Technische Universität Berlin, Germany, halfpap@tu-berlin.de
Local Arrangements Chairs
Manos Athanassoulis,
Boston University, USA
Tarikul Islam Papon,
University of Massachusetts, Boston, USA
Roee Shraga,
Worcester Polytechnic Institute, USA
Web Chairs
Dmytro Bogatov,
Amazon Web Services, USA
Chao Zhang,
University of Waterloo, Canada
Industrial Track Chairs
Christian König,
Microsoft Research, USA
Efthymia Tsamoura,
Huawei, UK
Hannes Voigt,
Neo4j, Germany
Demo Track Chairs
Stefania Dumbrava,
ENSIIE Paris, France
John Paparrizos,
Ohio State University, USA
Workshop Track Chairs
Tilmann Rabl,
Hasso Plattner Institute, Germany
Meihui Zhang,
Beijing Institute of Technology, China
Tutorial Track Chairs
Oliver Kennedy,
University at Buffalo, USA
Wenjie Zhang,
UNSW, Australia
Panel Chairs
Bettina Kemme,
McGill University, Canada
Steven Euijong Whang,
KAIST, Korea
PhD Workshop Chairs
Mohamed Eltabakh,
Qatar Computing Research Institute, Qatar
Nikos Tziavelis,
University of California at Santa Cruz, USA
Publicity Chairs
Rihan Hai,
TU Delft, Netherlands
Batya Kenig,
Technion, Israel
Ryan Marcus,
University of Pennsylvania, USA
Sponsorship Chairs
Ibrahim Sabek,
University of Southern California, USA
Jing Tang,
The Hong Kong University of Science and Technology
Nesime Tatbul,
Intel Labs and MIT, USA
Diversity & Inclusion Chairs
Sujaya Maya,
University of Waterloo, Canada
Brit Youngmann,
Technion, Israel