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Short Bio

Yongluan Zhou is a professor in the Department of Computer Science (DIKU) at the University of Copenhagen, where he leads the Data Management Systems Lab (DMS Lab). He also heads the MSc in Computer Science at DIKU. Prior to his current position, he worked as an Associate Professor at the University of Southern Denmark (SDU) and as a postdoc at the Ecole Polytechnique Fédérale de Lausanne (EPFL). He earned his Ph.D. in Computer Science from the National University of Singapore (NUS). His research interests span database systems and distributed systems, with his recent focus being on scalable event-driven systems. He has authored more than 80 peer-reviewed research articles in international journals and conference proceedings. He serves on the EDBT Executive Board and the SSDBM Steering Committee and has chaired various international conferences, including DEBS 2022, SSDBM 2022, and EDBT 2020. He has also served on the Program Committees of many other international conferences, including SIGMOD, VLDB, ICDE, EDBT, CIKM, and SSDBM.

Recent News

• Paper accepted at SIGMOD’25: “Online Marketplace: A Benchmark for Data Management in Microservices”.
• Paper accepted at SoCC’24: “Rethinking State Management in Actor Systems for Cloud-Native Applications”.
• Demo paper accepted at SIGIR’24: “CLIP-Branches: Interactive Fine-Tuning for Text-Image Retrieval”.
• “RapidEarth: A Search-by-Classification Engine for Large-Scale Geospatial Imagery” has been awarded the Best Demo by ACM SIGSPATIAL 2023.
• Paper accepted at NDSS’24: “A Two-Layer Blockchain Sharding Protocol Leveraging Safety and Liveness for Enhanced Performance”.
• Paper accepted at VLDB’23: “Fast Search-By-Classification for Large-Scale Databases Using Index-Aware Decision Trees and Random Forests”.
• “An Exploratory Analysis of Methods for Real-time Data Deduplication in Streaming Processes” has been awarded the Best Industry & Applications Paper by ACM DEBS 2023.
• The source code of Snapper is released. The scripts and data to reproduce the experimental restuls are also available.
• Our paper about Snapper, a transaction processing library for actor systems accepted at SIGMOD’22: “Hybrid Deterministic and Nondeterministic Execution of Transactions in Actor Systems”.
• Paper accepted at VLDB’2022: “Data Management in Microservices: State of the Practice, Challenges, and Research Directions”.
• My PhD student Rodrigo Laigner has received the TALENT Doctoral Fellowship co-funded by a EU Marie Skłodowska-Curie grant. Congratulations, Rodrigo!

Current Projects

• Consistent and Efficient Event-Driven Architecture
• PAPRiCaS: Programming technology foundations for Accountability, Privacy-by-design & Robustness in Context-aware Systems

Recent Professional Services

Conference Organization Committee

• ICWE 2024 (Posters & Demo Co-Chair)
• ACM DEBS 2022 (General Chair)
• SSDBM 2022 (General Chair)
• VLDB 2021 (Local Arrangement Co-Chair)
• EDBT/ICDT 2020 (General Co-Chair)
• IEEE BigData 2019 (PC Vice-Chair)

Program Committee (last five years)

• VLDB 2023, 2025
• ICDE 2021, 2022, 2024 (Area Chair), 2025
• EDBT 2023, 2025
• SoCC 2024
• ACM DEBS 2023
• CIKM 2020, 2021
• SSDBM 2020, 2021
• SIGMOD 2019, 2020
• MDM 2020
• DASFAAA 2019, 2020

Membership of Scientific Associations

• Member of ACM DEBS Steering Committee (2024 – present)
• Member of SSDBM Steering Committee (2022 – present)
• Member of the EDBT Association, EDBT Executive Board (2020 – present)
• ACM Member