Leadership

Professional Activities (Recent)

  • 2016 Rukmini Gopalakrishnachar Visiting Chair Professor, Indian Institute of Sciences, Bangalore, India
  • Advisory Council, IIT-Roorkee, India.
  • Board of Visitors, Department of Computer Science, University of Wisconsin – Madison.
  • Board of Directors, International Educational Data Mining Society (IEDMS).
  • Advisory Committee, Center for Cloud Computing and Big Data, ECNU, Shanghai, China.
  • Advisory Board, Big Data Institute, Seoul National Univerity, Korea.
  • Steering Committee (Secretary), IEEE Int’l Conf. on Data Engineering (ICDE).
  • Steering Committee, ACM Conf. on Information and Knowledge Management (CIKM).
  • Advisory Board, ACM Special Interest Group on Management of Data (SIGMOD).
  • Advisory Board, Data Mining and Knowledge Discovery Journal.
  • DB Track Chair, 2018 ACM Conf. on Information and Knowledge Management (CIKM), Turin, Italy.
  • Industry Track Chair, 2017 ACM Conf. on Information and Knowledge Management (CIKM), Singapore.
  • Program Chair, 2015 ACM Conf. on Online Social Networks (COSN).
  • Panel Chair, 2015 IEEE Int’l Conf. on Data Engineering (ICDE).
  • Program Chair, Industry Track, 2014 Int’l Conf. on World Wide Web (WWW).
  • Awards Committee, 2016 &  2014 ACM Int’l Conf. on Knowledge Discovery and Data Mining (KDD).

Professional Activities (Past)

  • Chair, IEEE Technical Committee on Data Engineering.
  • Secretary/Founding Director, ACM Special Interest Group on Knowledge Discovery and Data Mining (SIGKDD).
  • Trustee, VLDB Endowment (responsible for educational programs for developing countries).
  • Chair, Awards Committee, ACM Special Interest Group on Management of Data (SIGMOD).
  • Steering Committee, Int’l Conf. on Web Search and Data Mining (WSDM).
  • Technical Advisory Committee, ACM Conference on Online Social Networks (COSN).
  • Advisory Board, Journal of Privacy Technology.
  • Advisory Board, Web Archive Cooperative, Stanford University.
  • Technical Advisory Committee, RESCUE,University of California – Irvine.
  • Editor, ACM Transactions on Knowledge Discovery from Data.
  • Editor, ACM Transactions on Database Systems.
  • Editor, ACM Transactions on Internet Technologies.
  • Editor, IEEE Transactions on Knowledge and Data Engineering.
  • Editor, IEEE Transactions on Parallel and Distributed Systems.
  • Editor, IEEE Transactions on Computers.
  • Editor, VLDB Journal.
  • Editor, Data Mining and Knowledge Discovery Journal.
  • Editor, Web Semantics Journal.
  • General Chair, 21st International Conference on Data Engineering (ICDE-2005).
  • Chair, Dagstuhl Seminar on Data Mining: The Next Generation , July 2005.
  • Program Chair, 2003 Almaden Institute on Privacy.
  • Program Chair, 18th Int’l Conf. on Data Engineering (ICDE-2002).
  • Program Vice-Chair, 17th Int’l Conf. on Data Engineering (ICDE-2001).
  • Program Chair, 10th Int’l Conf. on Management of Data (COMAD-2000).
  • General Chair, 1st Int’l Conf. on Web-Age Information Management (WAIM-2000).
  • Workshops Chair, 5th Int’l Conf. on Knowledge Discovery in Databases and Data Mining (KDD-99).
  • Program Chair, 4th Int’l Conf. on Knowledge Discovery in Databases and Data Mining (KDD-98).

Special Assignments