SIGMOD 2023: Awards
SIGMOD Research Track Best Papers
For contributions to Core DB
Detecting Logic Bugs of Join Optimizations in DBMS: Xiu Tang (Zhejiang University); Sai Wu (Zhejiang Univ); Dongxiang Zhang (Zhejiang University); Feifei Li (Alibaba Group); Gang Chen (Zhejiang University) "For introducing a new paradigm, Transformed Query Synthesis (TQS), which elegantly and effectively addresses a critical problem in modern DBMSes –debugging of complex logic bugs in the implementation of join queries and the demonstrated applicability of TQS to open-source and industry-leading systems."
For contributions to data science
Predicate Pushdown for Data Science Pipelines: Cong Yan (Microsoft research); Yin Lin (University of Michigan); Yeye He (Microsoft Research) "For introducing MagicPush and its impact on optimizing data science pipelines, its thorough and elegant presentation, and for the potential of advancing the field of query optimization in general. MagicPush handles a rich library of user-defined functions and generalizes the applicability and correctness of predicate pushdown to real-world data science pipelines."
SIGMOD Industry Track Best Paper
PG-Schema: Schemas for Property Graphs: Renzo Angles (Universidad de Talca); Angela Bonifati (Univ. of Lyon); Stefania Dumbrava (ENSIIE); George Fletcher (Eindhoven University of Technology the Netherlands); Alastair Green (Mr); Jan Hidders (Birkbeck, University of London)*; Bei Li (Google); Leonid Libkin (University of Edinburgh & RelationalAI); Victor Marsault (UPEM / CNRS); Wim Martens (University of Bayreuth); Filip Murlak (University of Warsaw, Poland); Stefan Plantikow (Neo4j); Ognjen Savkovic (Free University of Bozen-Bolzano); Michael Schmidt (Amazon Web Services); Juan Sequeda (data.world); Sławek Staworko (RelationalAI); Dominik Tomaszuk (University of Bialystok); Hannes Voigt (Neo4j); Domagoj Vrgoc (Pontificia Universidad Catolica de Chile); Mingxi Wu (Tigergraph inc); Dušan Živković (Integral Data Solutions) "For its immediate and significant impact on the direction of standard bodies and property graph data management systems in the space of schema languages, its balanced mix of theory and practice and for the potential in impacting industry in a broad manner."
SIGMOD Research Highlight Award
- Ad Hoc Transactions: What They Are and Why We Should Care. Chuzhe Tang, Zhaoguo Wang, Xiaodong Zhang, Qianmian Yu, Binyu Zang, Haibing Guan, and Haibo Chen.
- Sortledton: a Universal Graph Data Structure. Per Fuchs, Domagoj Margan, and Jana Giceva.
- Efficiently Making Cross-Engine Transactions Consistent. Jianqiu Zhang, Kaisong Huang, Tianzheng Wang, & King Lv.
- When is it safe to run a transactional workload under Read Committed? Brecht Vandevoort, Bas Ketsman, Christoph Koch, and Frank Neven.
- Building Write-Optimized Tree Indexes on Disaggregated Memory. Qing Wang, Youyou Lu, and Jiwu Shu.
- Conjunctive Queries with Comparisons. Qichen Wang and Ke Yi.
- Threshold Queries. Angela Bonifati, Stefania Dumbrava, George Fletcher, Jan Hidders, Matthias Hofer, Wim Martens, Filip Murlak, Joshua Shinavier, Sławek Staworko, and Dominik Tomaszuk.
- Convergence of Datalog over (Pre-) Semirings. Mahmoud Abo Khamis, Hung Q. Ngo, Reinhard Pichler, Dan Suciu, and Yisu Remy Wang.
- An Optimal Algorithm for Partial Order Multiway Search. Shangqi Lu, Wim Martens, Matthias Niewerth, & Yufei Tao.
- Accurate Summary-based Cardinality Estimation Through the Lens of Cardinality Estimation Graphs. Jeremy Chen, Yuqing Huang, Mushi Wang, Semih Salihoglu, and Kenneth Salem.
- Revisiting Runtime Dynamic Optimization for Join Queries in Big Data Management Systems. Christina Pavlopoulou, Michael J. Carey, and Vassilis J. Tsotras.
- R2T: Instance-optimal Truncation for Differentially Private Query Evaluation with Foreign Keys. Wei Dong, Juanru Fang, Ke Yi, Yuchao Tao, Ashwin Machanavajjhala.
SIGMOD Best Artifact Award
Best Artifact
JEDI: These aren't the JSON documents you're looking for... Thomas Hütter (University of Salzburg), Nikolaus Augsten (University of Salzburg), Christoph M. Kirsch (University of Salzburg & Czech Technical University), Michael J. Carey (University of California, Irvine), Chen Li (University of California, Irvine)
Honorable Mention
HypeR: Hypothetical Reasoning With What-If and How-To Queries Using a Probabilistic Causal Approach. Sainyam Galhotra (University of Chicago), Amir Gilad (Duke University), Sudeepa Roy (Duke University), Babak Salimi (University of California, San Diego)
SIGMOD Programming Contest
Winner
Jiayi Wang. Team Hello World. Tsinghua University
Runner-Up
Haizhou Ye, Xuyang Liu, Chenzhao Wang. Team Canton DwenDwen. Jinan University
SIGMOD Distinguished AEs
- Zhifeng Bao, RMIT University, Australia
- Sourav Bhowmick, Nanyang Technological University, Singapore
- Huiping Cao, New Mexico State University, USA
- Stefan Manegold, CWI Amsterdam, The Netherlands
- Semih Salihoğlu, University of Waterloo, Canada
- Dan Suciu, University of Washington, USA
SIGMOD Distinguished PCs
- Manos Athanassoulis, Boston University, USA
- Carsten Binnig, TU Darmstadt, Germany
- Matthias Boehm, Graz University of Technology, Austria
- Byron Choi, Hong Kong Baptist University, Hong Kong
- Theodore Dalamagas, ATHENA RC, Greece
- Shaleen Deep, Microsoft Gray Systems Lab, USA
- Anna Fariha, Microsoft, USA
- Vasiliki Kalavri, Boston University, USA
- Daniel Kang, Stanford University, USA
- Ulf Leser, Humboldt-Universität zu Berlin,Germany
- Norman May, SAP SE, Germany
- Felix Naumann, Hasso Plattner Institute, Germany
- Louiqa Raschid, University of Maryland, USA
- Sudeepa Roy, Duke University, USA
- Amir Shaikhha, University of Edinburgh, Scotland
- Letizia Tanca, Politecnico di Milano, Italy
SIGMOD Best Demonstration Award
Best Demo
A Demonstration of KAMEL: A Scalable BERT-based System for Trajectory Imputation. Mashaal Musleh (University of Minnesota) and Mohamed Mokbel (University of Minnesota - Twin Cities)
Runner-Ups
- Demonstrating NaturalMiner: Searching Large Data Sets for Abstract Patterns Described in Natural Language. Immanuel Trummer (Cornell University)
- Proactively Screening Machine Learning Pipelines with ArgusEyes. Sebastian Schelter (University of Amsterdam), Stefan Grafberger (University of Amsterdam), Shubha Guha (University of Amsterdam), Bojan Karlaš (Harvard University), and Ce Zhang (ETH)
SIGMOD Student Research Competition
Undergraduate Winner
- 1st: Xiaochen Zhu (National University of Singapore)
Graduate Winner
- 1st: Stefan Klessinger (University of Passau)
- 2nd: Xin Zhang (University of California at Riverside)
- 3rd: Sergio Luiz Marques Filho (Federal University of Parana)
Jim Gray Doctoral Dissertation Award
Winner
Supun Nakandala University of California, San Diego Query Optimizations for Deep Learning Systems
Runner-Ups
- Benjamin Hilprecht Technical University of Darmstadt Data-Efficient Learned Database Components
- Zongheng Yang University of California, Berkeley Machine Learning for Query Optimization
SIGMOD Systems Award
Apache Flink: In recognition of Apache Flink,which greatly expanded the use of stream data-processing, a selection from the list of Flink committers is presented. As an open-source project, Apache Flink received contributions from over 1400 contributors, many of them substantial, which are not listed here. Aljoscha Krettek, Andrey Zagrebin, Anton Kalashnikov, Arvid Heise, Asterios Katsifodimos, Jiangji (Becket) Qin, Benchao Li, Bowen Li, Caizhi Weng, ChengXiang Li, Chesnay Schepler, Chiwan Park, Congxian Qiu, Daniel Warneke, Danny Cranmer, David Anderson, David Morávek, Dawid Wysakowicz, Dian Fu, Dong Lin, Eron Wright, Etienne Chauchot, Fabian Hueske, Fabian Paul, Feng Wang, Gabor Somogyi, Gary Yao, Godfrey He, Greg Hogan, Guowei Ma, Gyula Fora, Haohui Mai, Henry Saputra, Hequn Cheng, Igal Shilman, Ingo Bürk, Jamie Grier, Jark Wu, Jincheng Sun, Jing Ge, Jing Zhang, Jingsong Lee, Junhan Yang, Konstantin Knauf, Kostas Kloudas, Kostas Tzoumas, Kete (Kurt) Young, Leonard Xu, Lijie Wang, Lincoln Lee, Lungu Andra, Martijn Visser, Marton Balassi, Matthias J. Sax, Matthias Pohl, Matyas Orhidi, Maximilian Michels, Nico Kruber, Niels Basjes, Paris Carbone, Piotr Nowojski, Qingsheng Ren, Robert Metzger, Roman Khachatryan, Rong Rong, Rui Fan, Rui Li, Sebastian Schelter, Seif Haridi, Sergey Nuyanzin, Seth Wiesman, Shaoxuan Wang, Shengkai Fang, Shuyi Chen, Sihua Zhou, Stefan Richter, Stephan Ewen, Theodore Vasiloudis, Thomas Weise, Till Rohrmann, Timo Walther, Tzu-Li (Gordon) Tai, Ufuk Celebi, Vasiliki Kalavri, Volker Markl, Wei Zhong, Weijie Guo, Xiaogang Shi, Xiaowei Jiang, Xingbo Huang, Xingcan Cui, Xintong Song, Yang Wang, Yangze Guo, Yingjie Cao, Yu Li, Yuan Mei, Yun Gao, Yun Tang, Yuxia Luo, Zhijiang Wang, Zhipeng Zhang, Zhu Zhu, Zili Chen
SIGMOD Contributions Award
K. Selcuk Candan: For extensive and outstanding service to the database community, including long-term dedication to the SIGMOD conference coordination, instigation of rolling deadlines for the SIGMOD conference, and leadership in the conference proceedings to ACM PACMMOD journal transition.
SIGMOD Test-of-Time Award
Integrating Scale Out and Fault Tolerance in Stream Processing using Operator State Management. Raul Castro Fernandez, Matteo Migliavacca, Evangelia Kalyvianaki, and Peter Pietzuch: For the paper from the SIGMOD proceedings 10 years prior that has had the most impact over the intervening decade.
Edgar F Codd Innovations Award
Joseph M. Hellerstein: For innovative contributions in extensible query processing, interactive data analytics, and declarative approaches to networking and distributed computing.
