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Program committee member (major conferences)

• ACM SIGCOMM 2022
• ACM SIGMOD, 2011, 2012, 2017 (demo), 2018, 2020, 2022 (Associate Editor), 2025 (Associate Editor)
• ACM International Conference on emerging Networking EXperiments and Technologies (CoNEXT), 2009, 2020, 2021.
• USENIX Symposium on Networked Systems Design and Implementation (NSDI), 2017, 2018.
• International Conference on Very Large Databases (VLDB), 2007, 2008, 2009, 2010, 2012, 2013.
• Symposium on Operating Systems Design and Implementation (OSDI), 2016.
• European Conference on Computer Systems (Eurosys), 2019.
• ACM Symposium on Cloud Computing (SOCC), 2011, 2014, 2020.
• International Conference on Data Engineering (ICDE), 2009, 2010, 2012, 2017.
• Usenix Annual Technical Conference (ATC), 2013.
• Conference on Computer Communications (IEEE INFOCOM), 2009.
• 27th International Conference on Logic Programming (ICLP), 2012.
• Conference on Information and Knowledge Management (CIKM), 2017 (senior PC member).
• 17th Privacy Enhancing Technologies Symposium (PETS), 2017.
• Symposium on SDN Research (SOSR), 2016, 2017 (PC member and chair of best paper award committee).
• Database Systems for Advanced Applications (DASFAA), 2014.
• WWW (Data and Content management track), 2012.
• IEEE International Symposium on Policies for Distributed Systems and Networks (POLICY), 2010, 2011.
• International Conference on Distributed Computing Systems (ICDCS) Operating Systems and Middleware track, 2007.

Panelist / Reviewer

• NSF grant panelist — have been on numerous panels for CISE, ILP, EHR, etc. I try to serve on approximately one panel each year.
• 2010 SIGMOD dissertation award committee
• External review committee, Engineering for Professional division, John Hopkins University Whiting School of Engineering, 2019.
• Panelist, Ministry of Singapore (MOE) Tier-2 research grants, 2017 – present.
• Panelist, Workshop on Applications of Logic Programming (AppL) ICLP Workshop, 2016.
• Panelist, Data Management in the Cloud (DMC) ICDE Workshop, 2013.
• Panelist, ICDE 2008 panel on Declarative domain-specific languages.
• GENI project office proposal reviewer, 2008.
• Member, DARPA Information Science and Technology Study Group on Engineering Ensemble Effects, 2007
• Member, DARPA Information Science and Technology Study Group on Program Synthesis for Rapid Software Development, 2011
• Journal reviewer, Cluster Computing (HPDC’13 special issue), VLDB Journal, Transactions of Programming Languages and Systems (TPLS), Transactions of Parallel and Distributed Databases (TPDS), Transactions on Networking (ToN), International Journal for Information Technology (IJIT), Transactions on Knowledge and Data Engineering (TKDE), TOPLAS, …

Program committee member (workshops)

• 2nd Workshop on Resource Disaggregation and Serverless (WORD 2021), co-located with ASPLOS 2021.
• Asia-Pacific Workshop on Networking (APNet), 2018, 2019.
• ACM CoNEXT Cloud-Assisted Networking (CAN) Workshop, 2016.
• Milken-Penn GSE Education Business Plan Competition, 2016.
• Workshop on Hot Topics in Middleboxes and Network Function Virtualization (HotMiddlebox), 2016.
• SIGMOD/PODS PhD Workshop, 2012.
• Datalog 2.0 workshop, 2012.
• Usenix Workshop on Hot Topics in Management of Internet, Cloud, and Enterprise Networks and Services (Hot-ICE), 2012.
• Off the Beaten Track (OBT): Underrepresented Problems for Programming Language Researchers (co-located with POPL), 2012.
• Workshop on Programmable Routers for Extensible Services of Tomorrow (PRESTO), 2010.
• 4th Biennial Conference on Innovative Data Systems Research (CIDR), 2009, 2011.
• International Workshop on Peer-to-Peer Systems (IPTPS), 2007, 2009, 2010.
• 2nd SIGMOD PhD Workshop on Innovative Database Research (IDAR) 2008
• VLDB PhD Workshop, 2008
• International Workshop on Networking meets Databases (NetDB), 2007, 2008.
• 9th International Workshop on Web Information and Data Management (WIDM), 2007

Program committee co-chair

• 1st International Workshop on Rigorous Protocol Engineering (WRiPE), co-located with ICNP 2011.
• 5th International Workshop on Networking meets Databases (NetDB), co-located with SOSP 2009. [Workshop report]
• 4th ACM International Conference on emerging Networking EXperiments and Technologies (CoNEXT) Student Workshop, 2008.

Local chair

• 5th ACM International Conference on emerging Networking EXperiments and Technologies (ACM CoNEXT), 2010.

Steering committee

• International Workshop on Networking meets Databases (NetDB).

Keynote speaker

• Annual ShanghaiTech Symposium on Information Science and Technology (ASSIST), 2023.
• Workshop on Software Defined Networks (SDN), 2012.
• IEEE International Symposium on Policies for Distributed Systems and Networks (POLICY), 2010.
• 14th International Symposium on Practical Aspects of Declarative Languages (PADL), 2012.