professional activities

Membership of Editorial and Advisory Boards

• Associate Editor, the IEEE Transactions on Big Data, 2015-2019.
• Associate Editor, the Very Large Database Conference Journal Track, 2016-2019.
• Associate Editor, the Very Large Database Journal, 2001-2007.
• Associate Editor, the IEEE Transactions on Knowledge & Data Engineering, 2002-2008.
• Member of the Research Management Committee, NCE IRIS, 2001-2003.
• Member of the ACM SIGKDD Advisory Board, 1999-2001.

Program Chair or Co-chair

• International Conference on Data Engineering, Program Co-chair, Shanghai, April 2009.
• ACM SIGMOD, General Co-chair, Vancouver, June 2008.
• ACM SIGKDD Conference Program Co-chair, Edmonton, July 2002.
• International Workshop on Data Mining and Discovery in Molecular Databases, Program Chair, January 1999.
• SIGMOD Workshop on Research Issues on Data Mining & Knowledge Discovery, Program Co-chair, Montreal, June 1996.

Membership of Program Committees of Major Conferences

• Conference on Very Large Data Bases (1997, 1998, 2001, 2004,2005,2007,2009,2010, 2011,2013,2016-2019).
• ACM SIGMOD Conference(1999, 2003,2005, 2006,2009,2013,2016).
• ACM SIGKDD Conference (1996--2001, 2003,2004, 2005,2006,2007,2012,2013-2018).
• Conference on Data Engineering (2000, 2002, 2003,2005,2015-2018).
• Conference on AAAI (2015-2017).
• Conference on Intelligent Systems for Molecular Biology (2009).
• ACM Symposium on Principles of Database Systems (1997).
• Pacific Symposium on Biocomputing (1998, 1999).
• ACM GIS Conference (1998).

Membership of Major Grant Selection Committees

• European Union Horizon 2020: International flagship collaboration with Canada for human data storage, integration and sharing to enable personalised medicine approaches (2018).
• Canadian Institutes of Health Research Project grant program (2018).
• Canadian Cancer Society Research Institute Pan-Canadian grant selection (2015-2017).

Last updated: 28/10/2018