Invited speakers
the invited keynotes and the panelist of this workshop edition
Keynote Speakers

Yuanyuan Tian
Dr. Yuanyuan Tian is a Principal Scientist Manager and Graph Architect at Microsoft Gray Systems Lab (GSL), and an ACM Distinguished Member. Before Microsoft, she was a Principal Research Staff Member at IBM Almaden Research Center. She obtained her Ph.D. in computer science from the University of Michigan. At GSL, Dr. Tian leads research efforts in graph queries & analytics, query/workload optimization, and ML-for-Systems. Her broader research interests include HTAP, SQL-on-Hadoop, big data federation, and Systems-for-ML. She has published two books and over 50 articles in top database venues with 5700+ citations. Dr. Tian has been an Associate Editor for the VLDB Journal, PVLDB, and SIGMOD, served on the editorial board of the Encyclopedia of Big Data, and played key roles in major database conferences, including PC Chair for SIGMOD 2027 and SoCC 2023. She has also participated in multiple NSF panels. She is the recipient of the DaMoN 2023 Best Short Paper Award, the SIGMOD 2019 Research Highlight Award, the EDBT 2018 Best Paper Award, and multiple Outstanding Technical Achievement and Research Division Awards from IBM. She also received the Distinguished Academic Achievement Award from the University of Michigan in 2008. Her research has been incorporated into products such as IBM Db2 Event Store and IBM Db2 Graph, as well as open-source projects like Apache SystemML (now SystemDS) and Apache DataSketches.

Juan Reutter
Juan is an Associate Professor in the Department of Computer Science and the Institute for Mathematical Engineering and Computing at Pontificia Universidad Católica de Chile. He also serves as the Director of the Institute for Foundational Research on Data (IMFD). His research focuses on the mathematical foundations of data management, web data, and artificial intelligence. At IMFD, he also co-leads an interdisciplinary team studying the socio-political effects of data. Juan earned his PhD from the University of Edinburgh in 2013, where his thesis received the BCS Distinguished Dissertation Award. His work has also been recognized with the Ramon Salas Edwards Award from the Chilean Institute of Engineers (2012), the Cor Baayen Young Researcher Award from the European Research Consortium for Informatics and Mathematics (2014), Best Paper Awards at PODS 2011 and ISWC 2019, and an Outstanding Paper Award at ICLR 2022.