2009 SIGMOD Contributions Award
Beng Chin Ooi
Beng Chin Ooi is the recipient of the 2009 SIGMOD Contributions Award
for his sustained and selfless contributions to the database
community in promoting and pursuing high standards of database
research at both the international and regional level.
Beng Chin Ooi has been consistently involved in activities that
push the frontier of database research. He has taken leadership roles
on technical programs for ICDE, SSD, SIGMOD and VLDB. He has helped
ensure a high standard for database journal publications as an editor for
The VLDB Journal, IEEE Transactions on Knowledge and Data Engineering,
International Journal of Geographical Information Science, and
Geoinformatca. Currently, he is the editor-in-chief of IEEE
Transactions on Knowledge and Data Engineering, and an editor for
the Distributed and Parallel Databases journal. He also serves on the
SIGMOD Doctoral Dissertation Award committee and on the board of the
VLDB Endowment. Ooi has contributed greatly to promoting database research,
especially in the Asia-Pacific region, by building an eminent database
group at the National University of Singapore that supports high quality
research throughout the region through direct collaborations and
participation in regional conferences.
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Beng Chin Ooi has been contiuously involved in leadership roles that
help create strong technical programs for the community. He served as
the co-PC chair for the Third International Symposium on Large Spatial
Databases (SSD) in 1993. He also served as the vice PC Chair for the
International Conference on Data Engineering (ICDE) in 2000, 2004 and
2006. More recently, Ooi was involved in running two major database
conferences, serving as PC chair for the ACM SIGMOD International
Conference on Management of Data in Beijing in 2007 and as the Core DB
PC chair in the Very Large Database Conference (VLDB) in Auckland in
2008. Ooi has consistently worked to maintain the high quality of
these conferences.
Ooi has also been involved in ensuring high standards of database
journal publications. He was an editor for The VLDB Journal, IEEE
Transactions on Knowledge and Data Engineering (TKDE), International
Journal of Geographical Information Science and Geoinformatca. He has
recently been appointed editor-in-chief of TKDE and continues to serve
as an editor for the Distributed and Parallel Databases journal.
Ooi is currently a board member of the VLDB Endowment and is involved
in the liaison and fostering of cooperation between the Endowment and
database researchers in the Asia-Pacific region. Since 2005 he has served
as a member the ACM SIGMOD Dissertation Award committee. Since 2008 he
has served as co-chair of this committee.
Ooi is an active proponent for database research, especially in the
Asia-Pacific region. He has been engaging researchers from other countries
in the region in collaborative projects with a view to enhanching the
standard of work being done. This outreach has resulted in fruitful
collaborations with leading universities in the region, including Fudan
University, Tsinghua University and Renmin University of China.
Ooi has served on the program committees of many regional
conferences. In 2005, he was co-PC chair of the International Conference
on Database Systems for Advanced Applications (DASFAA) and he acted as
the general chair for the same conference in 2006. He successfully
advocated Singapore as teh venue for VLDB 2010. His research group has
taken an active part in regional conferences such as DASFAA, COMAD, ADC,
APWeb, WAIM and NDBC, both as organizers and participants.
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