Organizing Committee 

General Co-Chairs
Mohamed F. Mokbel (University of Minnesota, USA)
Jianliang Xu (Hong Kong Baptist University, Hong Kong)
Demetris Zeinalipour (University of Cyprus, Cyprus)
PC Co-Chairs
Mohamed Sarwat (Arizona State University, USA)
Xing Xie (Microsoft Research Asia, China)
Karine Zeitouni (University of Versailles Saint-Quentin, France)
Workshop Co-Chairs
Takahiro Hara (Osaka University, Japan)
Nikos Mamoulis (University of Ioannina, Greece)
Advanced Seminars Co-Chairs
Maria Luisa Damiani (University of Milan, Italy)
Sanjay Madria (Missouri University of Science and Technology, USA)
Manos Papagelis (York University, Canada)
Demo  Co-Chairs
George Fakas (Uppsala University, Sweden)
Andreas Konstantinidis (Frederick University, Cyprus)
Matthias Renz (University of Kiel, Germany)
Industry, Systems and Apps Co-Chairs
Jie Bao (JD.com, China)
Christian Becker (University of Stuttgart, Germany)
Lei Chen (Hong Kong University of Science and Technology, Hong Kong)
Keynote Co-Chairs
Wang-Chien Lee (Pennsylvania State University, USA)
Dimitrios Gunopulos (National and Kapodistrian University of Athens, Greece)
Xiaofang Zhou (Hong Kong University of Science and Technology, Hong Kong)
Panel Co-Chairs
Christophe Claramunt (Ecole Navale, France)
Baihua Zheng (Singapore Management University, Singapore)
Diversity & Inclusion Co-Chairs
Panos K. Chrysanthis (University of Pittsburgh, USA)
Vana Kalogeraki (Athens University of Economics, Greece)
PhD Colloquium Co-Chairs
Hua Lu (Roskilde University, Denmark)
Mohamed Sharaf (United Arab Emirates University, UAE)
Test-of-Time Award Committee
Karl Aberer (École polytechnique fédérale de Lausanne, Switzerland)
Christian S. Jensen (Aalborg University, Denmark)
Kian-Lee Tan (National University of Singapore, Singapore)
Publicity Co-Chairs
Ahmed Eldawy (University of California – Riverside, USA)
Xiao Pan (Shijiazhuang Tiedao University, China)
Dimitris Sacharidis (Université Libre De Bruxelles, Belgium)
Sponsorship Chair
Konstantinos Pelechrinis (University of Pittsburgh, USA)
Proceedings Chair
Edison Chan (Hong Kong Baptist University, Hong Kong)
Online Platform Chair
Constantinos Costa (University of Pittsburgh, USA)
Steering Committee Liaison
Panos K. Chrysanthis (University of Pittsburgh, USA)
Finance Chair
George Pallis (University of Cyprus, Cyprus)
Website Management and Local Arrangements
Petros Stratis (Easyconferences, Cyprus)
Nicolas Kantzilaris (Easyconferences, Cyprus)

Program Committees

Research Committee

Heba Aly (Amazon, USA)

Walid G. Aref (Purdue University, USA)

Petko Bakalov (ESRI, USA)

Christian Becker (University of Mannheim, Germany)

Claudio Bettini (University of Milan, Italy)

Vania Bogorny (Federal University of Santa Catarina, Brazil)

Cristian Borcea (New Jersey Institute of Technology, USA)

Xin Cao (University of New South Wales, Australia)

Muhammad Aamir Cheema (Monash University, Australia)

Chi-Yin Chow (Social Mind Analytics Ltd, Hong Kong)

Christophe Claramunt (Naval Academy, France)

Jian Dai (Alibaba Group, China)

Maria Luisa Damiani (Universit of Milano, Italy)

Ahmed Eldawy (University of California, Riverside, USA)

Hakan Ferhatosmanoglu (University of Warwick, UK)

Yunjun Gao (Zhejiang University, China)

Gabriel Ghinita (University of Massachusetts Boston, USA)

Takahiro Hara (Osaka University, Japan)

Abdeltawab Hendawi (University of Rhode Island, USA)

Dimitrios Kotzinos (University of Cergy Pontoise, France)

Manolis Koubarakis (University of Athens, Greece)

Wei-Shinn Ku (Auburn University, USA)

Wang-Chien Lee (Pennsylvania State University, USA)

José Macêdo (Federal University of Ceará, Brazil)

Sanjay Kumar Madria (Missouri University of Science & Technology, USA)

Amr Magdy (University of California Riverside, USA)

Bernhard Mitschang (University of Stuttgart, Germany)

Mohamed Mokbel (University of Minnesota – Twin Cities, USA)

Anirban Mondal (Ashoka University, India)

Daniela Nicklas (University of Bamberg, Germany)

Petteri Nurmi (University of Helsinki, Finland)

Dimitris Papadias (Hong Kong University of Science and Technology, Hong Kong)

Praveen Rao (University of Missouri-Columbia, United States)

Weixiong Rao (Tongji University, China)

Cyril Ray (Ecole Navale, France)

Chiara Renso (ISTI-CNR, Italy)

Simonas Saltenis (Aalborg University, Denmark)

Markus Schneider (University of Florida, USA)

Matthias Schubert (Ludwig-Maximilians-Universität München, Germany)

Chih-Ya Shen (National Tsing Hua University, Taiwan)

Stephan Sigg (Aalto University, Finland)

Dimitrios Skoutas (Athena Research Center, Greece)

Kian-Lee Tan (National University of Singapore)

Kristian Torp (Aalborg University, Denmark)

Goce Trajcevski (Iowa State University, USA)

Tin Vu (Microsoft, USA)

Leye Wang (Peking University, China)

Martin Werner (TU München, Germany)

Ouri Wolfson (University of Illinois, USA)

Raymond Chi-Wing Wong (Hong Kong University of Science and Technology, Hong Kong)

Jianliang Xu (Hong Kong Baptist University, Hong Kong)

Jianqiu Xu (Nanjing University of Aeronautics and Astronautics, China)

Hirozumi Yamaguchi (Osaka University, Japan)

De-Nian Yang (Academia Sinica, Taiwan)

Moustafa Youssef (Alexandria University, Egypt and Google, USA)

Jia Yu (Washington State University, USA)

Demetris Zeinalipour (University of Cyprus, Cyprus)

Baihua Zheng (Singapore Management University, Singapore)

Bolong Zheng (Huazhong University of Science and Technology, China)

Kai Zheng (University of Electronic Science and Technology of China)

Xiaofang Zhou (Hong Kong University of Science and Technology, Hong Kong)

Industry, Systems and Applications  Committee

Bolong Zheng (Huazhong University of Science and Technology, China)

Cheng Long (Nanyang Technological University, Singapore)

Chuishi Meng (JD Intelligent Cities Research, China)

Kai Zheng (University of Electronic Science and Technology of China, China)

Vaskar Raychoudhury (Miami University, USA)

Ziqiang Yu (Yantai University, China)

Demo Committee

Zhi Cai Beijing University of Technology, China)

Bin Cao (Zhejiang University of Technology, China)

Xin Cao (University of New South Wales, Australia)

Lu Chen (Zhejiang University, China)

Anton Dignös (Free University of Bozen-Bolzano, Italy)

Christos Doulkeridis (University of Pireaus, Greece)

Jilin Hu (Aalborg University, Denmark)

Christos Laoudias (University of Cyprus, Cyprus)

Amr Magdy (University of California – Riverside, USA)

Paschalis Mpeis (University of Cyprus, Cyprus)

Andreas Pamboris (Frederick University, Cyprus)

Karthik Ramachandra (Microsoft Azure SQL, India)