The SIGMOD Jim Gray Doctoral Dissertation Awards committee decides who receives the SIGMOD Jim Gray Doctoral Dissertation Award. The committee members over time are listed below.
| 2025 | Evaggelia Pitoura (Chair), Sourav S Bhowmick, Angela Bonifati (Co-chair), Daniel Kang, Georgia Koutrika, Supun Nakandala, Fatma Ozcan, Julia Stoyanovich, Xiaofang Zhou |
| 2024 | Gustavo Alonso (Chair), Evaggelia Pitoura (Co-chair), Huanchen Zhang, Supun Nakandala, Xiaofang Zhou, Huanchen Zhang, Fatma Ozcan, Angela Bonifati, and Zsolt Istvan |
| 2023 | Wolfgang Lehner (co-chair), Gustavo Alonso (co-chair), Azza Abouzied, Daniel Deutch, Evaggelia Pitoura, Xiaofang Zhou, Huanchen Zhang, and Chenggang Wu |
| 2022 | Vanessa Braganholo (co-chair), Wolfgang Lehner (co-chair), Bailu Ding, Daniel Deutch, Joy Arulraj, Azza Abouzied, Gustavo Alonso, Huanchen Zhang |
| 2021 | Vanessa Braganholo (co-chair), Viktor Leis (co-chair), Bailu Ding, Daniel Deutch, Joy Arulraj, Jose Faleiro, Gustavo Alonso, Wolfgang Lehner |
| 2020 | Pinar Tozun (co-chair), Viktor Leis (co-chair), Peter Bailis, Alexandra Meliou, Bailu Ding, Vanessa Braganholo, Immanuel Trummer, Joy Arulraj |
| 2019 | Lucian Popa (co-Chair), Pinar Tozun (co-Chair), Peter Bailis, Viktor Leis, Feifei Li, Qiong Luo, Alexandra Meliou, Felix Naumann |
| 2018 | Ioana Manolescu (co-Chair), Lucian Popa (co-Chair), Peter Bailis, Michael Cafarella, Feifei Li, Qiong Luo, Felix Naumann, Pinar Tozun |
| 2017 | Ashraf Aboulnaga (co-Chair), Chris Jermaine (co-Chair), Paris Koutris, Feifei Li, Qiong Luo, Ioana Manolescu, Lucian Popa, Renée Miller |
| 2016 | Ashraf Aboulnaga (co-Chair), Juliana Freire (co-Chair), Kian-Lee Tan, Andy Pavlo, Aditya Parameswaran, Ioana Manolescu, Lucian Popa, Chris Jermaine, Renée Miller |
| 2015 | Tova Milo (co-Chair), Juliana Freire (co-Chair), Kian-Lee Tan, Andy Pavlo, Aditya Parameswaran, Ashraf Aboulnaga, Minos Garofalikis, Chris Jermaine, Renée Miller |
| 2014 | Timos Sellis (co-Chair), Tova Milo (co-Chair), Kian-Lee Tan, Sudipto Das, Ashraf Aboulnaga, Dan Suciu, Minos Garofalikis, Juliana Freire |
| 2013 | Alfons Kemper TUM (Co-chair), Timos Sellis RMIT (Co-chair), A past year award winner, The remaining members of the award committee are currently being selected by the SIGMOD Executive Committee |
| 2012 | Johannes Gehrke (Co-chair), Alfons Kemper (Co-chair), A past year award winner, The remaining members of the award committee are currently being selected by the SIGMOD Executive Committee |
| 2011 | Johannes Gehrke (Co-chair), Beng Chin Ooi (Co-chair), Ariel Fuxman, Alfons Kemper, Hank Korth, Alberto Laender, Timos Sellis, Kyu-Young Whang |
| 2010 | ? |
| 2009 | Johannes Gehrke (Co-chair), Beng Chin Ooi (Co-chair), A past year award winner, Alfons Kemper, Hank Korth, Alberto Laender, Timos Sellis, Kyu-Young Whang |
| 2008 | Hans-Jöerg Schek, Chair, Sophie Cluet, Alberto Laender, Gail Mitchell, Beng Chin Ooi, Tamer Özsu, Kyu-Young Whang |
| 2006-2007 | Hans-Joerg Schek (Chair), Ricardo Baeza-Yates, Sophie Cluet, Jim Gray, Masaru Kitsuregawa, Gail Mitchell, Beng Chin Ooi |