Selected Accomplishments

• 2013: ACM SIGMOD Contributions Award.
• 2011: Herbert Kopf Service Excellence Award, University of Michigan.
• 2009: Elected to the Board of the Computing Research Association (CRA).
• 2008-2014: Founding Editor-in-Chief of the Proceedings of the VLDB Endowment (PVLDB).
• 2008: David E Liddle Award for Engineering Research Excellence.
• 2006: Award for Accomplishment in Electrical Engineering and Computer Science.
• 2005: Program Chair for the Conference on Intelligent Systems for Molecular Biology (ISMB).
• 2004-2010: Trustee of the Very Large Data Base (VLDB) Foundation.
• 2003: Elected Fellow of the ACM.
• 1999: Award for Excellence in Undergraduate Advising.
• 1996: Program Chair for the ACM Conference on Management of Data (SIGMOD).
• 1991: Program Chair for the Conference on Parallel and Distributed Information Systems (PDIS).
• 1988,89: Award for Extraordinary Contribution to ATT Bell Laboratories.
• 1985: Elected member of Sigma Xi.