Biographical Sketch

Laks V.S. Lakshmanan is a professor of Computer science at UBC, Vancouver, Canada. His research interests span a wide spectrum of topics in data management, integration, cleaning, and warehousing; data mining; semi-structured and unstructured data; big graphs, social networks and social media; ML, NLP; and efficient deep learning. He is an ACM Distinguished Scientist and has won several awards including best paper awards and distinguished reviewer awards. He has served on most top conferences and journals in his areas of research, on program committees, as senior PC member, meta-reviewer, general chair, and as associate editor. He currently serves as Associate Editor of the Information Systems Journal, the VLDB Journal, Proceedings of the VLDB Endowment (PVLDB) 2026, and Proceedings of ACM on Management of Data (PACMMOD) 2026, and as Meta-reviewer or Senior PC Member of AAAI 2026 and ACM RecSys Conference 2025.