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Welcome to ACM SIGMOD Record's series of interviews with distinguished members of the database community. I'm H. V. Jagadish, Professor of Computer Science at the University of Michigan. Sihem Amer-Yahia is my guest today. She is a Silver Medal Research Director at the French National Center for Scientific Research (CNRS) and Deputy Director of the Laboratoire d'Informatique de Grenoble, one of the largest research labs in Computer Science in France, with CNRS and INRIA Researchers and University Professors. She has won many awards, including the 2024 IEEE TCDE Impact Award, the ACM SIGMOD Contributions Award, and the VLDB Women in Database Research Award. Welcome, Sihem!

Welcome to ACM SIGMOD Record's series of interviews with distinguished members of the database community. I'm H. V. Jagadish, Professor of Computer Science at the University of Michigan. Today I have the honor of interviewing Themis Palpanas, who is a Distinguished Professor of Computer Science at Université Paris Cité. He is a Senior Fellow of the French University Institute (IUF), the Head of the Computer Science Department at the Université Paris Cité, and the Director of the Data Intelligence Institute of Paris (diiP). Themis, welcome!

Welcome to this installment of ACM SIGMOD Record's series of interviews with distinguished members of the database community. I'm Marianne Winslett, and today we are in Alexandria, Virginia. I have here with me Boon Thau Loo, who is an Assistant Professor of Computer and Information Science at the University of Pennsylvania. Boon is the recipient of the 2007 ACM SIGMOD Dissertation Award for his thesis entitled "The Design and Implementation of Declarative Networks." Boon's PhD is from the University of California at Berkeley, where his advisors were Joe Hellerstein and Ion Stoica. So, Boon, welcome!

Welcome to this installment of ACM SIGMOD Record's series of interviews with distinguished members of the database community. I'm Marianne Winslett, and today we are at the Department of Computer Science at the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign. I have here with me Jennifer Widom, who is a professor of Computer Science at Stanford University. Jennifer's research currently focuses on data provenance, management of uncertainty, queries over web services, and data streams. Jennifer is a member of the National Academy of Engineering, is an ACM Fellow, and is a former Guggenheim Fellow. Before joining Stanford, Jennifer worked at IBM Almaden Research Center. Jennifer's PhD is from Cornell. So, Jennifer, welcome!

Welcome to this installment of ACM SIGMOD Record's series of interviews with distinguished members of the database community. I'm Marianne Winslett, and today we're in the Department of Computer Science at the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign. I have here with me Jeffrey Naughton, who is a professor of computer science at the University of Wisconsin at Madison. Jeff's research has focused on improving the performance and functionality of database management systems. He received the National Science Foundation's Presidential Young Investigator Award, and he is an ACM Fellow. Jeff's PhD is from Stanford University. So, Jeff, welcome!

Welcome to this installment of ACM SIGMOD Record's series of interviews with distinguished members of the database community. I'm Marianne Winslett, and today we are at the ICDE 2007 Conference in Istanbul. I have here with me Kyu-Young Whang, who is a professor of computer science at Korea Advanced Institute of Science and Technology, and the director of the Advanced Information Technology Research Center. Before joining KAIST, Kyu-Young was a member of technical staff at IBM TJ Watson Research Center. His research interests are very broad, encompassing many different kinds of database systems as well as data mining and data streaming. He is an editor-in-chief of the VLDB Journal, a former member of the VLDB Endowment, and an IEEE Fellow. Kyu-Young's PhD is from Stanford. So, Kyu-Young, welcome!

Welcome to this installment of ACM SIGMOD Record's series of interviews with distinguished members of the database community. I'm Marianne Winslett, and today I have here with me Christos Faloutsos, who is a professor of computer science at Carnegie Mellon University. Christos recieved the Presidential Young Investigator Award from the National Science Foundation in 1989. He received the 1997 VLDB Ten Year Paper Award for his paper on R+ trees, and the SIGMOD 1994 Best Paper Award for a paper on fast subsequence matching in time series databases. Christos is a member of the SIGKDD Executive Committee, and he has wide-ranging interests in data mining, database performance, and spatial and multimedia databases. His PhD is from the University of Toronto. So, Christos, welcome!

Welcome to this installment of ACM SIGMOD Record' s series of interviews with distinguished members of the database community. I'm Marianne Winslett, and today we are at the ICDE 2007 conference in Istanbul. I have here with me Ricardo Baeza-Yates, who is the vice president of Yahoo! Research in Europe and Latin America. Before that, he was a professor of computer science at the University of Chile for many years. His research interests include information retrieval, databases, algorithms, and user interfaces, and he is a co-author of one of the most widely used books on information retrieval. Ric's PhD is from the University of Waterloo. So, Ric, welcome!

Welcome to this installment of ACM SIGMOD Record's series of interviews with distinguished members of the database community. I'm Marianne Winslett, and today we are at the Department of Computer Science at the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign. I have here with me Raghu Ramakrishnan, who is a Professor of Computer Sciences at the University of Wisconsin-Madison. Raghu's research currently focuses on data retrieval and integration, analysis, and mining. Raghu was a founder of QUIQ, a company that developed a collaborative customer support facility. Raghu has received the National Science Foundation's Presidential Young Investigator award, a Packard Fellowship, and a SIGMOD Contributions Award for founding and maintaining DBWorld. Raghu is an ACM Fellow; he is a coauthor of the popular Database Management Systems textbook; and he is also the current chair of ACM SIGMOD. Raghu's PhD is from the University of Texas at Austin. So, Raghu, welcome!

Welcome to ACM SIGMOD Record's series of interviews with distinguished members of the database community. I'm Marianne Winslett, and today we are at my office at the Advanced Digital Sciences Center in Singapore, an outpost of the University of Illinois. I have here with me today Beng Chin Ooi who is the dean of the school of computing at the National University of Singapore where he's been a professor of computer science for many years. Beng Chin is editor-in-chief for IEEE Transactions on Knowledge and Data Engineering. He is the recipient of the 2009 SIGMOD Contributions Award, and he is an IEEE and ACM Fellow and Fellow of Singapore National Academy of Science. He is the co-founder of two startups and his Ph.D. is from Monash University. So Beng Chin, welcome! (Please note that this interview took place in 2011).

Welcome to ACM SIGMOD Record's series of interviews with distinguished members of the database community. I'm Marianne Winslett, and today1 we are at the Advanced Digital Sciences Center in Singapore. I have here with me Kian-Lee Tan, who's a Provost's Chair Professor of Computer Science at the National University of Singapore, where he's also the Vice Dean for Research in the School of Computing. Kian-Lee received the President's Science Award in 2011. He has served as co-editor in chief of the VLDB Journal and editor for IEEE Transactions on Knowledge and Data Engineering, and a PC chair for VLDB and ICDE. His PhD is from the National University of Singapor.

"Berners-Lee, Sir Timothy (John), (born 8 June 1955), 3Com Founders Professor, since 1999, Director, World Wide Web Consortium, and Professor of Engineering, Computer Science and Artificial Intelligence Laboratory, Massachusetts Institute of Technology; Professor of Computer Science, University of Oxford, since 2016; Fellow, Christ Church, Oxford, since 2016" published on by Oxford University Press.

"Berners-Lee, Sir Timothy (John), (born 8 June 1955), 3Com Founders Professor, since 1999, Director, World Wide Web Consortium, and Professor of Engineering, Computer Science and Artificial Intelligence Laboratory, Massachusetts Institute of Technology; Professor of Computer Science, University of Oxford, since 2016; Fellow, Christ Church, Oxford, since 2016" published on by Oxford University Press.

Welcome to ACM SIGMOD Record's series of interviews with distinguished members of the database community. I'm Marianne Winslett, and today we're at the 2017 SIGMOD and PODS conference in Chicago. I have here with me Anastasia Ailamaki, who's a professor at the Swiss Federal Institute of Technology, better known as EPFL. Before that, Natassa was a professor at Carnegie Mellon. She's an ACM Fellow, a Sloan Fellow, and received the European Young Investigator Award, as well as ten Best Paper awards. After this interview, she received the Edgar F. Codd Innovation Award from the ACM SIGMOD in 2019, and the Nemitsas Prize in Computer Science from the President of the Republic of Cyprus in 2018. Her Ph.D. is from the University of Wisconsin, Madison. So, Natassa, welcome!

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