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 |
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Angela Bonifati | Alexandra Meliou | Manos Athanassoulis |
Lyon 1 University, France | University of Massachusetts Amherst, USA | Boston University, USA |
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), Joe Hellerstein & Azza Abouzied (2025 SIGMOD PC co-chairs), Floris Geerts (Chair of PODS), 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)
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)
Georgia Koutrika (Blogging)
Wim Martens (PODS)
Advisory Board
Yannis Ioannidis (Chair), Phil Bernstein, Surajit Chaudhuri, Rakesh Agrawal, Joe Hellerstein, Mike Franklin, Laura Haas, Renee Miller, John Wilkes, Chris Olsten, AnHai Doan, Tamer Özsu, Gerhard Weikum, Stefano Ceri, Beng Chin Ooi, Timos Sellis, Sunita Sarawagi, Stratos Idreos, Tim Kraska
Conference Coordinator
Chris Jermaine
PODS Executive
Floris Geerts (chair), Pablo Barcelo, Leonid Libkin, Hung Q. Ngo, Reinhard Pichler, Dan Suciu
Liaison to Sister Societies
Raghu Ramakhrishnan (SIGKDD), Yannis Ioannidis (EDBT Endowment), Christian Jensen (IEEE TKDE)
SIGMOD Awards Committee
Sourav S. Bhowmick, Angela Bonifati, V. Jagadish, David Maier, Sharad Mehrotra (Chair), Rachel Pottinger, Sayan Ranu, Cyrus Shahabi, Wang-Chiew Tan
Jim Gray Doctoral Dissertation Award Committee
Evaggelia Pitoura (Chair), Sourav S Bhowmick, Angela Bonifati (Co-chair), Daniel Kang, Georgia Koutrika, Supun Nakandala, Fatma Ozcan, Julia Stoyanovich, Xiaofang Zhou
ACM SIGMOD Research Highlight Award Committee
Kenneth Ross (Chair), Angela Bonifati, Rada Chirkova, Alfons Kemper, Samuel Madden, and Yufei Tao