TCDE Award Recipients

IEEE TCDE Awards 2025
Raghu Ramakrishnan and Johannes Gehrke
IEEE TCDE Ramez Elmasri Outstanding Database Education Award

Microsoft

For authoring a widely used textbook accompanied by an open-source software package that has significantly influenced global education in database systems.

Jianguo Wang
IEEE TCDE Rising Star Award

Purdue University

For contributions to disaggregated databases and vector databases.

Xiaodong Zhang
IEEE TCDE Impact Award

Ohio State University

For contributions to data engineering through high-performance, scalable system infrastructure and hardware acceleration, enabled by algorithms and open-source software.

IEEE TCDE Awards 2024
Sihem Amer-Yahia
IEEE TCDE Impact Award

CNRS, Grenoble

For contributions to laying the interdisciplinary data engineering foundations of social computing and crowdsourcing.

Natacha Crooks
IEEE TCDE Rising Star Award

UC Berkeley

For contributions to distributed data management, and its applications to blockchain technology, security, and cloud computing.

Tamer Özsu
IEEE TCDE Education Award

University of Waterloo

For fundamental contributions to data management and data science pedagogy.

IEEE TCDE Awards 2023
Angela Bonifati
IEEE TCDE Impact Award

Lyon 1 University

For contributions to the active and interdisciplinary areas of graph databases, knowledge graphs and data integration and their impact on data-intensive systems.

John Paparrizos
IEEE TCDE Rising Star Award

Ohio State University

For breakthroughs in time series data management, as well as contributions to adaptive methodologies for data intensive and machine learning applications.

Kyu-Young Whang
IEEE TCDE Service Award

KAIST, Korea

For contributions to the advancement of the IEEE ICDE and TCDE and decades-long dedicated leadership and service to the data engineering community in various capacities.

IEEE TCDE Awards 2022
Tova Milo
IEEE TCDE Impact Award

Tel Aviv University

For establishing the foundations of business processes and data-centric crowd sourcing.

Leilani Battle
IEEE TCDE Rising Star Award

University of Washington

For contributions to interactive data-intensive systems for exploratory data analysis.

Joy Arulraj
IEEE TCDE Rising Star Award

Georgia Institute of Technology

For contributions to the design of query processing engines for non-volatile memory and video databases.

Zachary Ives
IEEE TCDE Education Award

University of Pennsylvania

For fundamental contributions to Data Science education.

IEEE TCDE Awards 2021
Arun Kumar
IEEE TCDE Rising Star Award

University of California, San Diego

For designing and deploying data analytics systems powered by innovative machine learning and artificial intelligence algorithms.

Divesh Srivastava
IEEE TCDE Impact Award

AT&T

For contributions to deductive databases, streaming algorithms, and data integration.

IEEE TCDE Awards 2020
Alvin Cheung
IEEE TCDE Rising Star Award

UC Berkeley

For contributions at the intersection of data management and programming languages.

IEEE TCDE Awards 2019
David Lomet
IEEE TCDE Service Award

Microsoft

For leadership as the Editor-in-Chief of the Data Engineering Bulletin for over 25 years.

Christian Jensen
IEEE TCDE Impact Award

Aalborg University

For contributions to spatial, temporal, and spatio-temporal data management.

Viktor Leis
IEEE TCDE Rising Star Award

Technical University Munich

For contributions to main-memory indexing and database architectures for NVM.

IEEE TCDE Awards 2018
Marek Rusinkiewicz
IEEE TCDE Service Award

New Jersey Institute of Technology (NJIT)

For leadership in making ICDE and the RIDE Workshops high-impact international venues.

Timos Sellis
IEEE TCDE Impact Award

Swinburne University of Technology

For contributions to database systems research and broadening the reach of data engineering research.

Jiannan Wang
IEEE TCDE Rising Star Award

Simon Fraser University

For contributions to human-in-the-loop data analytics.

Spyros Blanas
IEEE TCDE Rising Star Award

The Ohio State University

For contributions to high-performance database management systems.

Jennifer Widom
IEEE TCDE Education Award

Stanford University

For developing novel online instructional materials for data engineering and for educating non-traditional students all over the world.

IEEE TCDE Awards 2017
Aditya Parameswaran
IEEE TCDE Early Career Award

University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign

For developing new interactive tools and techniques that expand the reach of data analytics.

Susan B. Davidson
IEEE TCDE CSEE (Computer Science, Engineering, and Education) Impact Award

University of Pennsylvania

For expanding the reach of data engineering within scientific disciplines.

Shan Wang
IEEE TCDE Service Award

Renmin University of China

For contributions to promoting data engineering research, education, and practice in China.

IEEE TCDE Awards 2016
Arnab Nandi
IEEE TCDE Early Career Award

Ohio State University

For contributions towards user-focused data interaction: building data analysis, exploration, and querying systems that allow highly interactive experiences for end-users

Mike Carey
IEEE TCDE CSEE (Computer Science, Engineering, and Education) Impact Award

University of California at Irvine

For leadership and research excellence in building impactful data management systems, engineering tools, products, and practices

Gio Wiederhold
IEEE TCDE Service Award

Stanford University

For being a driving force behind the creation of the IEEE International Conference on Data Engineering

IEEE TCDE Awards 2015
Stratos Idreos
IEEE TCDE Early Career Award

Harvard University

For breakthroughs in adaptive data management systems that allow users rich data exploration capabilities without a priori knowledge of the data or queries

Shamkanth B. Navathe
IEEE TCDE CSEE (Computer Science, Engineering, and Education) Impact Award

Georgia Institute of Technology

Citation: For contributions to database modeling and authorship of a textbook with widespread impact on the global education of databases

IEEE TCDE Awards 2014
Guoliang Li
IEEE TCDE Early Career Award

Tsinghua University, China

Citation: For work in database usability and data quality.

Beng-Chin Ooi
IEEE TCDE CSEE (Computer Science, Engineering, and Education) Impact Award

National University of Singapore

Citation: For sustained contributions to Computer Science in the engineering of parallel and distributed database systems