Advisory Board

Divyakant Agrawal

Professor of Computer Science UC Santa Barbara


Greg Badros

Director of Engineering Facebook


Ouri Wolfson

Richard and Loan Hill Professor of Computer Science University of Illinois at Chicago

Dieter Gawlick

Director of Engineering Lead Software Architect Oracle

Erik Hoel

Lead Developer, Geodatabase Team ESRI


Ramesh Jain

Donald Bren professor of Info & Computer Science UC Irvine

Andrew Kirmse

Principal Engineer Google



Edwin C Tse

Technology Director for the Office of Technology in Northrop Grumman

Shashi Shekhar

McKnight Distinguished University Professor University of Minnesota

James Steiner

VP, Product Management Oracle


Avideh Zakhor

Qualcomm Professor of Electrical Eng. UC Berkeley


Lin Zhang

Associate Professor of Electronic Eng. Tshinghua University, China

Jim Brink

Reservoir Management i-field Chevron


Dan Fay

Director of External Research - Earth, Energy, and Environment Microsoft

Hakan Hacigumus

Department Head, Data Management NEC Labs America

Meichun Hsu

Director of Intelligent Info Management Lab. HP


Praveen Kashyap

Senior Director of R&D Samsung Info Systems America

Masaru Kitsuregawa

Professor University of Tokyo, Japan


Alwar Narayanan

Director of Research & Emerging Tech Group NAVTEQ

Maria (Lolo) Penedo

Distinguished Technical Fellow Northrop Grumman


Roger Rea

InfoSphere Streams Product Manager IBM


Kris V. Srikrishnan

Distinguished Engineer Director of University Program IBM

Luc Vincent

Engineering Director Google


Bingcai Zhang

Technical Fellow BAE Systems