OTM’10 Keynote

Abstract

Beng Chin is Professor of Computer Science at School of Computing, at the National University of Singapore (NUS). He obtained his BSc (1st Class Honors) and PhD from Monash University, Australia, in 1985 and 1989 respectively. His research interests include database performance issues, indexing techniques, multimedia and spatio-temporal databases, P2P systems and advanced applications, and cloud computing. His current system projects include BestPeer, P2P based data management system, and epiC, a data-intensive cloud computing platform. He has served as a PC member for international conferences including ACM SIGMOD,VLDB, IEEEICDE,WWW,SIGKDDandVice PCChair for ICDE’00, 04,06, co-PC Chair for SSD’93 and DASFAA’05, PC Chair for ACMSIGMOD’07, and Core DB track PC chair for VLDB’08. He is the Editor-in-Chief of IEEE Transactions onKnowledge and Data Engineering (TKDE), and a trusteemember of VLDB Endowment Board. He is the recipient of ACM SIGMOD 2009 Contributions award.