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.

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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 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

SIGMOD Awards

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