Research diversity, equity, and inclusion in academia and industry
TIME: Day3 Wednesday May 21st, 2025，14:45-17:40
Venue: QR404
Session 1: 14:45-16:15
Divesh Srivastava
AT&T
Title: TBA
Time: 14:45-16:15
Divesh Srivastava is the Head of Database Research at AT&T. He is an AT&T Fellow, a Fellow of the ACM, the President of the VLDB Endowment, co-chair of the ACM Publications Board, and on the Board of Directors of the Computing Research Association. He has served as PC co-chair of many international conferences including SIGMOD 2021, VLDB 2020 (Industrial), SIGMOD 2020 (Industrial), and ICDE 2019. He has presented keynote talks at several international conferences, and his research interests and publications span a variety of topics in data management. He received his Ph.D. from the University of Wisconsin, Madison, USA, and his Bachelor of Technology from the Indian Institute of Technology, Bombay, India.
Angela Bonifati
University of Lyon
Title: Standardized Property Graphs in Action
Time: 15:15-15:45
Angela Bonifati is a Distinguished Professor of Computer Science at Lyon 1 University and at the CNRS Liris research lab, where she leads the Database Group. She is also an Adjunct Professor at the University of Waterloo in Canada from 2020 and a Senior member of the French University Institute (IUF) from 2023. Her current research interests are on several aspects of data management, including graph databases, knowledge graphs and data integration with additional interests in data science and AI. She has co-authored more than 200 publications in top venues of the data management field, including five Best Paper Awards, two books and an invited paper in ACM Sigmod Record 2018. She is the recipient of the prestigious IEEE TCDE Impact Award 2023 and a co-recipient of an ACM Research Highlights Award 2023. She is the Program Chair of IEEE ICDE 2025, the General Chair of VLDB 2026 and an Associate Editor for the Proceedings of VLDB and for several other journals, including the VLDB Journal, IEEE TKDE and ACM TODS. She was the Program Chair of ACM Sigmod 2022 and EDBT 2020. She is the Chair of the EDBT Executive Board (2020-2025), a member of the PVLDB Board of Trustees (2024-2029) and a member of the IEEE TCDE executive committee (2024-2029).
Guoling Li
Tsinghua University
Title: Academic Leadership in Innovation: Balancing Fundamental Research and Industrial Relevance
Time: 15:45-16:15
Guoliang Li is a full professor in the Department of Computer Science at Tsinghua University, Beijing, China. His research interests include Data+AI Systems, AI4Data, Data4AI, and cloud-native database systems. He has received several awards, including the VLDB 2017 Early Research Contribution Award, TCDE 2014 Early Career Award, SIGMOD 2024 Research Highlight Award, as well as best paper awards, such as VLDB 2023 Best Industry Paper, CIKM 2017 Best Paper award, DASFAA 2023 Best Paper award, best papers of SIGMOD 2023, VLDB 2020, KDD 2018, ICDE 2018. Guoliang has served as the general co-chair of SIGMOD 2021, demo co-chair for VLDB 2022, industrial co-chair for ICDE 2022, tutorial co-chair for SIGMOD 2022, and program contest co-chair for SIGMOD 2024. He regularly serves as a (senior) PC member for conferences like SIGMOD, VLDB, and ICDE.
Session 2: 16:40-17:40
Quanqing Xu
Ant Technology Research Institute
Title: Bridging Academia-Industry Diversity Gaps: Collaborative Pathways to Innovation in OceanBase
Time: 16:40 – 17:10
Dr. Quanqing Xu, as a researcher at the Database Laboratory of Ant Technology Research Institute, is currently engaged in the research of cutting-edge technologies of distributed database. His research areas include distributed data management and cloud data management. He was a scientist at the Agency for Science, Technology and Research (A*STAR) of Singapore and an adjunct faculty member at Singapore Institute of Technology (SIT). He has published over 120 papers in international academic journals and conferences, submitted and authorized 100+ patents, served as a member of the program committee of many international conferences such as VLDB and ICDE, and was invited to become a reviewer of many internationally renowned academic journals. He also participated in the development and maintenance of relevant international and national standards as a member of multiple standard working groups. Dr. Xu is a Fellow of the Institute of Engineering and Technology (IET Fellow), an distinguished member of CCF, a senior member of ACM and IEEE.
Panel Moderator:
Xiaochun Yang
Northeastern University
DEI Panel: How to make use of the differentiation between industry and academic to support scientific research development?
Time: 17:10 – 17:40
Panelist:
Divesh Srivastava (AT&T),
Angela Bonifati (University of Lyon)
Guoling Li (Tsinghua University)
Quanqing Xu (Ant Technology Research Institute)
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