Honorary Chair

Tamer Ozsu, University of Waterloo, Canada

General Co-Chairs

Adnan Yazici, METU, Turkey
Ling Liu, Georgia Tech, USA

General PC Chair

Z. Meral Ozsoyoglu, Case Western Reserve University, USA

Research Track PC Co-Chairs

Ugur Cetintemel, Brown University, USA
Nilesh Dalvi, Yahoo Research
Hank Korth, Lehigh University, USA
Anthony Tung, National University of Singapore, Singapore.

Experiments and Analysis Track PC Co-Chairs

Gustavo Alonso, ETH, Switzerland
Juliana Freire, NYU Poly, USA

Industrial and Applications Track PC Co-Chairs

Alon Halevy, Google
Vivek Narasayya, Microsoft Research
Fatma Ozcan, IBM

 VLDB Endowment Liaison

Surajit Chaudhuri, Microsoft Research

Proceedings Co-Chair

Ahmet Sacan, Drexel University, USA
Nesime Tatbul, ETH, Switzerland

Panel Program Co-Chairs

K. Selcuk Candan, Arizona State, USA
Panos K, Chrysanthis, University of Pittsburgh, USA
Daniel A Keim, University of Konstanz, Germany

Tutorial Program Co-Chairs

Chung Chin Wan, KAIST, South Korea
Bugra Gedik, IBM TJ Watson, USA
Ken Salem, University of Waterloo, Canada

Workshop Program Co-Chairs

Hakan Ferhatosmanoglu, OSU, USA
James Joshi, University of Pittsburgh, USA
Andreas Wombacher, Twente University, The Netherlands

Demo Program Co-Chairs

Lukasz Golab, University of Waterloo, Canada
Evaggelia Pitoura, University of Ioannina, Greece
Ozgur Ulusoy, Bilkent University, Turkey

PhD Program Co-Chairs

Ioana Manolescu, INRIA, France
Jeffery Xu Yu, Chinese University of Hong Kong
Murat Kantarcıoglu, University of Texas at Dallas, USA

Ten-Year Best Paper Award Committee

Rick Snodgrass, University of Arizona, USA (Chair)
Karl Aberer, EPFL, Switzerland
Masaru Kitsuregawa, Univ of Toyko, Japan
David Lomet, Microsoft, USA
Kyu-Young Whang, KAIST, South Korea

Best Paper Award Committee

Surajit Chaudhuri, Microsoft, USA (Chair)
Yannis Ioannidis, National University of Athens, Greece
Christian S. Jensen, Aarhus University, Denmark
Beng Chin Ooi, National University of Singapore
Gerhard Weikum, Max-Planck Institute, Germany
Philip Yu, UIC, USA

Geographical Area Coordinators
(Americas)
Jiawei Han, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign, USA

(Asia-Pacific)
Wang Shan, People’s Univ of China, China

(Europe)
Gunter Saake, Otto-von-Guericke-University Magdeburg, Germany

(Mideast and Africa)
Ghassan Z. Qadah, American University of Sharjah, UAE

Sponsor Chairs

Eşref Adalı, ITÜ, Turkey
Sam Madden, MIT, USA
Patrick Valduriez, INRIA, France

 Publicity Chair

Ramazan Savaş Aygün, University of Alabama in Huntsville, USA

Treasurer

Ismail Hakki Toroslu, METU, Turkey

Registration Chair

Pınar Senkul, METU, Turkey

Web Management

Sertan Girgin, Google, France
 

Local Arrangements

İ. Hakki Toroslu, METU, Turkey (co-chair)
Yucel Saygın, Sabancı University, Turkey (co-chair)
Şule Oğuducu, ITÜ, Turkey
Ahmet Coşar, METU, Turkey
Murat Koyuncu, Atılım University, Turkey
Mustafa Sert, Başkent University, Turkey
İbrahim Gökçen, GE Global Operations 

 

Conference Secretariat

Asterya Events & Destination Management