Awards

TIME: May 21st, 2025 13:15-14:45

Venue: JCA

TCDE Awards

IEEE TCDE Michael Elliott Distinguished Service Award

Eric J. Neuhold, University of Vienna, Faculty of Computer Science

For the establishment and sustainment of The TCDE, and dedicated Service on the TC ExCom as Conference Activities Chair from 2016 to 2022

 

IEEE TCDE Ramez Elmasri Outstanding Database Education Award

Raghu Ramakrishnan and Johannes Gehrke, Microsoft

For authoring a widely used textbook accompanied by an open-source software package that has significantly influenced global education in database systems.

 

IEEE TCDE Rising Star Award

Jianguo Wang, Purdue University

For contributions to disaggregated databases and vector databases.

 

IEEE TCDE Impact Award

Xiaodong Zhang,  Ohio State University

For contributions to data engineering through high-performance, scalable system infrastructure and hardware acceleration, enabled by algorithms and open-source software.

 

Ten Year Influential Paper

Spatialhadoop: A mapreduce framework for spatial data

Authors: A Eldawy, MF Mokbel

ICDE 2025 Awards

Best Paper Award

Incremental Stream Query Placement in Massively Distributed and Volatile Infrastructures

Authors: Ankit Chaudhary (Technische Universität Berlin)*; Kaustubh Beedkar (Indian Institute of Technology Delhi); Jeyhun Karimov (Ververica); Felix Lang (TU Berlin); Steffen Zeuch (TU Berlin); Volker Markl (Technische Universität Berlin)

 

Best Paper Runner Up Award

CloudyBench: A Testbed for A Comprehensive Evaluation of Cloud-Native Databases

Authors: Chao Zhang (Renmin University of China)*; Guoliang Li (Tsinghua University); Leyao Liu (Imperial College London); Tao Lv (China Software Testing Center); Ju Fan (Renmin University of China)

 

Best Student Paper Award

SeSeMI: Secure Serverless Model Inference on Sensitive Data

Authors: Guoyu Hu (National University of Singapore); Yuncheng Wu (Renmin University of China); Gang Chen (Zhejiang University); Anh Dinh (Deakin University); Beng Chin Ooi (NUS)*

 

Best Industry and Application Paper Award

BlendHouse: A Cloud-Native Vector Database System in ByteHouse

Authors: Zhaojie Niu (ByteDance)*, Xinhui Tian (ByteDance), Xindong Peng (bytedance), Xing Chen (Bytedance Inc)

 

Best Industry and Application Paper Runner Up

OceanBase Unitization: Building the Next Generation of Online Map Applications

Authors: Quanqing Xu (OceanBase, Ant Group )*, Wei Sun (AMap, Alibaba), Chuanhui Yang (OceanBase), Jinlong Liu (AMap, Alibaba), Ziyun Wei (Cornell University), Fusheng Han (OceanBase), Liang Wang (Amap, Alibaba), xiaowei zhai (AMap, Alibaba)

 

Best Demonstration Award

scRAG: An Efficient Retrieval Augmented Generation System for scRNA-seq Data Analysis

Author: Yuren Mao, Yifan Zhu, Qing Liu, Peigen Liu, Yu Haoran, Yunjun Gao (Zhejiang University)

 

DreamCreek: AI for Battery Formation and Grading

Author: Wenfei Fan (University of Edinburgh), Yang Leng, Daji Li, Shuhao Liu, Mingliang Ouyang, Yaoshu Wang, Min Xie, Qiang Yuan (Shenzhen Institute of Computing Sciences / Shenzhen University)

 

Outstanding Area Chair Award

Alan Fekete (University of Sydney)

CHAN Chee Yong (National University of Singapore)

Christian S.  Jensen (Aalborg University)

Francesco Guerra (University of Modena e Reggio Emilia)

Georgia  Koutrika (ATHENA Research Center)

Guoliang  Li (Tsinghua University)

Kaiwen Zhang (ÉTS Montréal)

Lei Chen (Hong Kong University of Science and Technology)

Long Yuan (Nanjing University of Science and Technology)

Qiong  Luo (Hong Kong University of Science and Technology)

Semih  Salihoglu (University of Waterloo)

Tamer  Özsu  (University of Waterloo)

Zi Helen Huang (University of Queensland)

 

Outstanding PC Chair Award

Ahmed Abdelhamid (Purdue University)

Alexander Zhou (Hong Kong Polytechnic University)

Byron Choi (Hong Kong Baptist University)

Christopher Spinrath (University of Grenoble)

Eliana Pastor (Politecnico di Torino)

Foto Afrati (NTUA)

Gengrui Zhang (University of Toronto)

George Papadakis (University of Athens)

Ioana Manolescu (Inria and Institut Polytechnique de Paris)

Jelle Hellings (McMaster University)

Jeffrey Xu Yu (Chinese University of Hong Kong)

Kai Wang (Shanghai Jiao Tong University)

Lijun Chang (University of Sydney)

Madhulika Mohanty (Inria Saclay)

Melanie Herschel (Universität Stuttgart)

Michael Gubanov (Florida State University)

Nan Tang (HKUST GZ)

Sean Chester (University of Victoria)

Shixuan Sun (Shanghai Jiao Tong University)

Stefania Dumbrava (ENSIIE)

Tung Kieu (Aalborg University)

Xiaodong Zhang (Ohio State University)

Yixiang Fang (The Chinese University of Hong Kong, Shenzhen)

Yuxiang Zeng (Beihang University)

41st IEEE International Conference on Data Engineering, Hong Kong SAR, China – May 19-23, 2025