Angela Bonifati, Université Claude Bernard Lyon 1, France
Zi Helen Huang, University of Queensland, Australia
Wolfgang Lehner, Technische Universitat Dresden, Germany & Aalborg University, Denmark
Mohamed F Mokbel, University of Minnesota, USA
Themis Palpanas, Université Paris Cité, France
Kian-Lee Tan, National University of Singapore, Singapore
Li Xiong, Emory University, USA
Ke Yi, Hong Kong University of Science and Technology, China

Source: https://awards.acm.org/award_winners?year=2025&award=158

We are pleased to announce that our SIG has new officers!

Chairperson: Angela Bonifati
Vice-chair: Alexandra Meliou
Secretary / Treasurer: Manos Athanassoulis

They took office on July 1st, 2025 picking the baton from Divy, Fatma, and Rachel. Congratulations on their election!

The nomination committee for this year’s elections was:
Divesh Srivastava, AT&T Labs-Research (Chair),
Sihem Amer-Yahia, CNRS, Univ. Grenoble Alpes,
Juliana Freire, New York University, and
Beng Chin Ooi, National University of Singapore

The 2025 SIGMOD Awards Committee comprising Sourav S. Bhowmick, Angela Bonifati, V. Jagadish, David Maier, Sharad Mehrotra (Chair), Rachel Pottinger, Sayan Ranu, Cyrus Shahabi, Wang-Chiew Tanis happy to announce the following recipients of the 2025 ACM SIGMOD awards.

The SIGMOD 2025 Edgar F Codd Innovations Award goes to Carlo Zaniolo for his groundbreaking contributions to database languages and query optimization on complex database models with long-lasting impact on research and industrial application.

The SIGMOD 2025 Contributions Award goes to Hector Munoz-Avila and Spengler, Sylvia for their outstanding service to the database community by initiating and supporting research, and for increasing awareness globally about the importance of database innovation.

The 2025 ACM SIGMOD Test-of-Time Award goes to “K-shape: Efficient and accurate clustering of time series” by John Paparrizos and Luis Gravano

The 2025 ACM SIGMOD Systems Award goes to “Spanner: Google’s Globally-Distributed Database“. The list of contributors is James C. Corbett Jeffrey Dean, Michael Epstein, Andrew Fikes, Christopher Frost, Sanjay Ghemawat, Andrey Gubarev, Christopher Heiser, Peter Hochschild, Wilson Hsieh, Sebastian Kanthak, Alexander Lloyd, Sergey Melnik, David Mwaura, Sean Quinlan, Lindsay Rolig, Yasushi Saito, Michal Szymaniak, Christopher Taylor, Ruth Wang, Dale Woodford, David F. Bacon, Shannon Bales, Nico Bruno, Brian F. Cooper, Adam Dickinson, Campbell Fraser, Milind Joshi, Eugene Kogan, Rajesh Rao, David Shue, Marcel van der Holst, Cliff Frey, Damian Reeves, Steve Middlekauff, Mert Akdere, Ben Vandiver, Dan Glick, David Ziegler, Alex Khesin, Dave Weissman, Todd Lipcon, Sean Dorward, Eric Veach, and JJ Furman

The 2024 ACM SIGMOD Edgar F. Codd Innovations Award goes to Samuel Madden for his wide ranging contributions to multiple aspects of data management, including column-oriented database systems, high performance transaction processing, and systems for mobile and sensor data.

The 2024 ACM SIGMOD Contributions Award goes to Sihem Amer-Yahia for her contributions towards diversity, equity, and inclusion in the professional database research community.

The 2024 ACM SIGMOD Test-of-Time Award goes to “PrivBayes: Private Data Release via Bayesian Networks” by Jun Zhang, Graham Cormode, Cecilia M. Procopiuc, Divesh Srivastava, Xiaokui Xiao.

The 2024 ACM SIGMOD Systems Award goes to “Apache SINGA“, for the development of a distributed, efficient, scalable, and easy-to-use deep learning platform for large scale data analytics. The list of contributors is Zhaojing Luo, Beng Chin Ooi, Wei Wang, Meihui Zhang, Qingchao Cai, Shaofeng Cai, Gang Chen, Tien Tuan Anh Dinh, Jinyang Gao, Qian Lin, Shicong Lin, Kee Yuan Ngiam, Gene Yan Ooi, Moaz Reyad, Kian-Lee Tan, Anthony K. H. Tung, Sheng Wang, Yuncheng Wu, Zhongle Xie, Naili Xing, Rulin Xing, Wanqi Xue, Sai Ho Yeung, James Yip, Lingze Zeng, Zhaoqi Zhang, Kaiping Zheng, Lei Zhu, and Ji Wang.

The 2023 ACM SIGMOD Edgar F. Codd Innovations Award goes to Joseph M. Hellerstein for his innovative contributions in extensible query processing, interactive data analytics, and declarative approaches to networking and distributed computing.

The 2023 ACM SIGMOD Contributions Award goes to K. Selcuk Candan for his extensive and outstanding service to the database community, including long-term dedication to the SIGMOD conference coordination, instigation of rolling deadlines for the SIGMOD conference, and leadership in the conference proceedings to ACM PACMMOD journal transition.

The 2023 ACM SIGMOD Test-of-Time Award goes to “Integrating Scale Out and Fault Tolerance in Stream Processing using Operator State Management” by Raul Castro Fernandez, Matteo Migliavacca, Evangelia Kalyvianaki, and Peter Pietzuch.

The 2023 ACM SIGMOD Systems Award goes to “Apache Flink“. Apache Flink greatly expanded the use of stream data-processing. The list of contributors listed for the award is just a selection from the list of Flink committers. As an open-source project, Apache Flink received contributions from over 1400 contributors, many of them substantial, which are not listed here: Aljoscha Krettek, Andrey Zagrebin, Anton Kalashnikov, Arvid Heise, Asterios Katsifodimos, Jiangji (Becket) Qin, Benchao Li, Bowen Li, Caizhi Weng, ChengXiang Li, Chesnay Schepler, Chiwan Park, Congxian Qiu, Daniel Warneke, Danny Cranmer, David Anderson, David Morávek, Dawid Wysakowicz, Dian Fu, Dong Lin, Eron Wright, Etienne Chauchot, Fabian Hueske, Fabian Paul, Feng Wang, Gabor Somogyi, Gary Yao, Godfrey He, Greg Hogan, Guowei Ma, Gyula Fora, Haohui Mai, Henry Saputra, Hequn Cheng, Igal Shilman, Ingo Bürk, Jamie Grier, Jark Wu, Jincheng Sun, Jing Ge, Jing Zhang, Jingsong Lee, Junhan Yang, Konstantin Knauf, Kostas Kloudas, Kostas Tzoumas, Kete (Kurt) Young, Leonard Xu, Lijie Wang, Lincoln Lee, Lungu Andra, Martijn Visser, Marton Balassi, Matthias J. Sax, Matthias Pohl, Matyas Orhidi, Maximilian Michels, Nico Kruber, Niels Basjes, Paris Carbone, Piotr Nowojski, Qingsheng Ren, Robert Metzger, Roman Khachatryan, Rong Rong, Rui Fan, Rui Li, Sebastian Schelter, Seif Haridi, Sergey Nuyanzin, Seth Wiesman, Shaoxuan Wang, Shengkai Fang, Shuyi Chen, Sihua Zhou, Stefan Richter, Stephan Ewen, Theodore Vasiloudis, Thomas Weise, Till Rohrmann, Timo Walther, Tzu-Li (Gordon) Tai, Ufuk Celebi, Vasiliki Kalavri, Volker Markl, Wei Zhong, Weijie Guo, Xiaogang Shi, Xiaowei Jiang, Xingbo Huang, Xingcan Cui, Xintong Song, Yang Wang, Yangze Guo, Yingjie Cao, Yu Li, Yuan Mei, Yun Gao, Yun Tang, Yuxia Luo, Zhijiang Wang, Zhipeng Zhang, Zhu Zhu, and Zili Chen.

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On behalf of the ACM SIGMOD Executive Committee (EC), I would like to inform you about some of the happenings at ACM SIGMOD over the past couple of years. As you all know, starting July 2021, ACM SIGMOD members elected the following new officers for the 2021-2025 term:

• Divyakant Agrawal, Chair
• Fatma Özcan, Vice-chair
• Rachel Pottinger, Secretary/Treasurer
  In consultation with other members of the ACM SIGMOD EC, one of the major transformations we have made is to move towards a quarterly rolling submission and review process for the ACM SIGMOD conference. As part of this transformation, we also decided to move towards a model where we publish accepted papers in a timely manner in an archival journal.

With this posting, I am pleased to announce that starting with the ACM SIGMOD’2023 conference, all accepted research and industrial track papers (that undergo the stringent review process) will appear in Proceedings of the ACM on Management of Data (PACMMOD; URL: https://dl.acm.org/journal/pacmmod). Other conference related publications such as keynote talk abstracts, demonstration papers, tutorial abstracts, and invited industrial papers will also appear in the companion volume of PACMMOD. We would also like to inform our ACM PODS community that starting with the 2024 conference cycle, papers accepted for publication in ACM PODS will also be published in PACMMOD (subject to approvals by the Proceedings of the ACM Steering Committee).

I want to thank the ACM SIGMOD EC for their guidance throughout this process and would also like to acknowledge the leadership of the Proceedings of the ACM Steering Committee and the ACM Publication staff personnel. Finally, on behalf of the entire ACM SIGMOD and greater database community, I would like to express our sincere gratitude to ACM SIGMOD’2023 Program Committee Co-chairs: Sihem Amer-Yahia and K. Selcuk Candan. They worked very hard to operationalize our vision of moving ACM SIGMOD to the quarterly rolling deadline model as well as launching PACMMOD.

Sincerely,
Divy Agrawal, Chair ACM SIGMOD
Editor-in-Chief, PACMMOD

CC:
Sihem Amer-Yahia, Managing Editor, PACMMOD
K. Selcuk Candan, Managing Editor, PACMMOD

The 2022 ACM SIGMOD Edgar F. Codd Innovations Award goes to Dan Suciu for lasting contributions to the foundations of novel data management trends.

The 2022 ACM SIGMOD Contributions Award goes to Christian S. Jensen for extensive, high-quality service to the database research community, including as Editor-in-Chief of ACM TODS and the VLDB Journal for 12+ years.

The 2022 ACM SIGMOD Test-of-Time Award goes to “NoDB: Efficient Query Execution on Raw Data Files” by Ioannis Alagiannis, Renata Borovica, Miguel Branco, Stratos Idreos, and Anastasia Ailamaki.

The 2022 ACM SIGMOD Systems Award goes to “Apache Spark“, an innovative, widely-used, open-source, unified data processing system encompassing relational, streaming, and machine-learning workloads.

The award recognizes the contributions of Michael Armbrust, Tathagata Das, Ankur Dave, Wenchen Fan, Michael J. Franklin, Huaxin Gao Maxim Gekk, Ali Ghodsi, Joseph Gonzalez, Liang-Chi Hsieh, Dongjoon Hyun, Hyukjin Kwon, Xiao Li, Cheng Lian, Yanbo Liang, Xiangrui Meng, Sean Owen, Josh Rosen, Kousuke Saruta, Scott Shenker, Ion Stoica, Takuya Ueshin, Shivaram Venkataraman, Gengliang Wang, Yuming Wang, Patrick Wendell, Reynold Xin, Takeshi Yamamuro, Kent Yao, Matei Zaharia, Ruifeng Zheng, and Shixiong Zhu.

As you may have seen already, as a result of the recent elections, our SIG has new officers:

	Chair: Divyakant Agrawal
	Vice-chair: Fatma Ozcan
	Secretary/Treasurer: Rachel Pottinger

They took office on July 1st, picking the baton from Juliana, Ihab, and Fatma (who picked up the baton from herself). Congratulations on their election!

The nomination committee for this year’s elections was:
– Angela Bonifati, University of Lyon
– Susan Davidson, University of Pennsylvania
– Yannis Ioannidis, University of Athens
– H. V. Jagadish, University of Michigan
– M. Tamer Özsu, University of Waterloo (Chair)

SIGMOD, as a global organization, fosters diversity and inclusion and aims to reach communities of all sizes around the globe. Thus, we welcome proposals from all over the world.

Proposals should highlight as many details as possible about the logistics and organization, in particular (and not limited to) the following:

• Proposed location
• Tentative dates
• Reasons for hosting the conference at the proposed location, including any proposed initiatives that will help promote DB research in the area
• Information about the General Chair(s), Local Organization Chair(s), and the Finance Chair(s) (names, affiliations, and qualifications, including past experience in conference organization, and available resources, such as local academic institutions)
• Diversity and inclusion plans and initiatives
• Anticipated sponsorships, including local sponsorship opportunities
• Travel (international and regional accessibility) and visa requirements
• Possible venues (including approximates room rates, meeting room sizes, projected costs)
• Local attractions
• Any anticipated risks (e.g., public health, economic conditions, safety, etc.) and possible mitigation

Proposals should also specify whether the proposal is to be considered for SIGMOD’23 or ’24 (or both).

The proposal should be submitted along with any supportive material (e.g., links to videos about the venue). Interested teams should send their proposal to SIGMOD EC’s Conference Coordinator K. Selcuk Candan ([email protected]) by August 8th, 2021.