The ACM Special Interest Group on Management of Data is concerned with the principles, techniques and applications of database management systems and data management technology. Our members include software developers, academic and industrial researchers, practitioners, users, and students. SIGMOD sponsors the annual SIGMOD/PODS conference, one of the most important and selective in the field.

Joining SIGMOD

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SIGMOD Officers

CHAIRPERSON VICE-CHAIR SECRETARY/TREASURER
Angela Bonifati Alexandra Meliou Manos Athanassoulis
Lyon 1 University, France University of Massachusetts Amherst, USA Boston University, USA

SIGMOD Advisory Board

Divy Agrawal (Chair), Sihem Amer-Yahia, Alexandre Böhm, Amr El Abbadi, Avrilia Floratou, Christian Jensen, Tamer Özsu, Kian-Lee Tan

SIGMOD Executive Committee

Angela Bonifati (Chair), Alexandra Meliou (Vice Chair), Manos Athanassoulis (Secretary Treasurer), Divyakant Agrawal (Previous SIGMOD Chair), Yufei Tao (ACM TODS Editor-in-Chief and Chair of PODS), Carsten Binnig & Sudeepa Roy (2026 SIGMOD PC co-chairs), Rada Chirkova (SIGMOD Record Editor-in-Chief), Genoveva Vargas Solar (SIGMOD Diversity and Inclusion Coordinator), Chris Jermaine (SIGMOD Conference Coordinator), Sourav S Bhowmick (SIGMOD Ethics), Byron Choi (Information Director)

SIGMOD PC Chair Board

Alexandra Meliou (Chair), Azza Abouzied & Joe Hellerstein (2025 PC Chairs), Carsten Binnig & Sudeepa Roy (2026 PC Chairs), Sourav Bhowmick & Yuanyuan Tian (2027 PC Chairs), Chris Jermaine (Conference Officer)  

PODS Advisory Board

Molman Aref, Sudeepa Roy, Cristian Riveros

PODS Executive Committee

Yufei Tao (chair), Floris Geerts, Leonid Libkin, Benny Kimelfeld, Dan Olteranu, Ke Yi, Sarah Cohen

ACM Transactions on Database Systems (TODS) Editor-in-Chief

Yufei Tao

SIGMOD Record Editor-in-Chief

Rada Chirkova

SIGMOD Record Associate Editors

Lyublena Antova, Marcelo Arenas, Manos Athanassoulis, Renata Borovica-Gajic, Vanessa Braganholo, Susan Davidson, Aaron J. Elmore, Wook-Shin Han, Wim Martens, Kyriakos Mouratidis, Dan Olteanu, Tamer Özsu, Kenneth Ross, Pınar Tözün, Immanuel Trummer, Yannis Velegrakis, Marianne Winslett, and Jun Yang

SIGMOD Diversity and Inclusion Coordinator

Genoveva Vargas

Information Directors

Sourav S Bhowmick & Byron Choi

Associate Information Directors

Hui Li (SIGMOD Record)
Hazar Harmouch (Blogging)
Essam Mansour (Blogging)
Wim Martens (PODS)

Conference Coordinator

Chris Jermaine

Liaison to Sister Societies

Raghu Ramakhrishnan (SIGKDD), Yannis Ioannidis (EDBT Endowment), Christian Jensen (IEEE TKDE)

SIGMOD Awards Committee

Ailamaki Anastasia, Sourav S. Bhowmick, Georgia Koutrika, Sharad Mehrotra (Chair), C. Mohan, Ooi Beng Chin, Rachel Pottinger, Sayan Ranu, Cyrus Shahabi, Wang-Chiew Tan

Jim Gray Doctoral Dissertation Award Committee

Fatma Özcan (Co-chair), Georgia Koutrika (Co-chair), Sourav S Bhowmick, Daniel Kang, Peng Li, Steven Whang, Paolo Papotti, Nesime Tatbul, and Kostas Stefanidis

SIGMOD Research Highlight Award Committee

Carsten Binnig, Rada Chirkova, Alfons Kemper, Samuel Madden, Julia Stoyanovich, Ke Yi (chair)

SIGMOD Awards

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