Invited Talks, Tutorials, and Panels

Keynotes

# Talk Title Date Event Details Location Venue
7 Can We Converse With Relational Query Engines? Oct 2025 7th Joint Korea-Japan Workshop on Management of Data
Busan
South Korea
6 Data-driven COI Management: From Socio-Technical Data Systems Research to Impact Nov 2024 2nd Macau Symposium on Data Science
Macau
China
5 Visual Graph Search: Opportunities and Challenges July 2024 JST CREST Symposium
Gifu
Japan
4 Human Learners of Relational Query Processing: Who Cares? June 2023 2nd International Workshop on Data Systems Education (DataEd) (colocated with SIGMOD 2023)
Seattle
USA
3 We Don't Need No Education: From Building for Coders to Building for Users June 2019 2nd International Workshop on Graph Data Management Experiences & Systems and Network Data Analytics (GRADES-NDA) (colocated with SIGMOD 2019)
Amsterdam
The Netherlands
2 Network Analytics Meets Drug Combination Discovery Sep 2016 IEEE International Conference on Knowledge Engineering and Applications (ICKEA)
Singapore
Singapore
1 DB ⋈ HCI: Towards Bridging the Chasm Between Graph Data Management and HCI Sep 2014 25th International Conference on Database and Expert Systems Applications (DEXA 2014)
Munich
Germany

Panels

# Panel Title Date Conference Hosting Info Location Venue
10 Fundamental Research vs Application Research — New Challenges and Opportunities Oct 2025 21st International Conference on Advanced Data Mining and Applications (ADMA)
Kyoto
Japan
9 Towards a Broader Impact: Expanding the Reach of Data Management Research June 2025 51st ACM SIGMOD/PODS International Conference on Management of Data (SIGMOD)
Berlin
Germany
8 Global Voices in Data: Navigating Responsible Management and Processing with Diverse Perspectives June 2024 50th ACM SIGMOD/PODS International Conference on Management of Data (SIGMOD)
Santiago
Chile
7 Advice from Early Ph.D. to Early Career: Communication Strategies for Collaboration, Student Supervision, and Peer Review June 2024 50th ACM SIGMOD/PODS International Conference on Management of Data (SIGMOD)
Santiago
Chile
6 Publication Culture and Review Processes in the Data Management Community: An Open Discussion June 2022 48th ACM SIGMOD/PODS International Conference on Management of Data (SIGMOD) Recording
Philadelphia
USA
5 Success and Impact Beyond Traditional Metrics June 2022 48th ACM SIGMOD/PODS International Conference on Management of Data (SIGMOD)
Philadelphia
USA
4 Diversity and Inclusion Perspectives Around the World Apr 2022 25th International Conference on Extending Database Technology (EDBT)
Edinburgh
Scotland
3 Science of Adult Learning Nov 2019 Future of Adult Learning Research Symposium (FoALR)
Singapore
Singapore
2 Women in Bioinformatics Oct 2016 7th ACM Conference on Bioinformatics, Computational Biology and Health Informatics (ACM BCB 2016)
Seattle
USA
1 Large-Scale Data Management and Analytics on Cloud Oct 2015 International Conference on Cloud Computing Research and Innovation (ICCCCRI)
Singapore
Singapore

Tutorials

# Subject / Topic Date Conference Organizers Location Venue
16 Psychology Meets Data-Centric ComputingInvited October 2025 21st International Conference on Advanced Data Mining and Applications (ADMA 2025)
Kyoto
Japan
15 Cognitive Psychology Meets Data Management: State of the Art and Future Directions June 2024 50th ACM SIGMOD International Conference on Management of Data (ACM SIGMOD 2024)
Santiago
Chile
14 Data-driven Visual Query Interfaces for Graphs: Past, Present, and (Near) Future (Part 1, Part 2, Part 3) June 2022 48th ACM SIGMOD International Conference on Management of Data (ACM SIGMOD 2022)
Philadelphia
USA
13 Visual Querying of Graphs: Models and Techniques Oct 2018 37th International Conference on Conceptual Modeling (ER 2018)
Xi'an
China
12 Summarizing Static and Dynamic Big Graphs Aug 2017 43rd International Conference on Very Large Data Bases (VLDB 2017)
Munich
Germany
11 Graph Querying Meets HCI: State of the Art and Future Directions May 2017 43rd ACM SIGMOD International Conference on Management of Data (ACM SIGMOD 2017)
Chicago
USA
10 Managing Social Image Tags: Methods and Applications Jul 2013 5th International Workshop with Mentors on Databases, Web, and Information Management for Young Researchers (iDB 2013)
Sapporo
Japan
9 Clustering and Summarizing Biological Networks: The state-of-the art Dec 2012 8th International Conference on Advanced Data Mining and Applications (ADMA 2012)
Nanjing
China
8 Storing, Querying, Summarizing and Comparing Molecular Networks: The State-of-the-Art Apr 2012 17th International Conference on Database Systems for Advanced Applications (DASFAA)
Busan
South Korea
7 Social Image Tags: From Motivation to Mining May 2011 15th Pacific-Asia Conference on Knowledge Discovery and Data Mining (PAKDD 11)
Shenzhen
China
6 Managing Social Image Tags: From Motivation to Applications. Apr 2011 16th International Conference on Database Systems for Advanced Applications (DASFAA)
Hong Kong
Hong Kong SAR
5 Mining Evolution of Complex Structured Data Apr 2009 13th Pacific-Asia Conference on Knowledge Discovery and Data Mining (PAKDD 2009)
Bangkok
Thailand
4 Mining Evolution of Complex Structured Data Apr 2009 The Joint International Conference on Asia-Pacific Web Conference and Web-Age Information Management (APWEB-WAIM 2009)
Suzhou
China
3 Managing Changes to XML Data: The State-of-the-Art Jul 2008 9th International Conference on Web-Age Information Management (WAIM 2008)
Zhangjiajie
China
2 Web Evolution Management: From Detection, Monitoring to Mining Apr 2008 10th Asia-Pacific Web Conference (APWeb 2008)
Shenyang
China
1 Web Change Management and Delta Mining: Opportunities and Solutions Nov 2006 25th International Conference on Conceptual Modelling (ER 2006)
Tucson
USA

Invited Talks

# Talk Description Date Hosting Organization / Institute Location Venue
45 Can We Converse With Relational Query Engines? May 2025 International Workshop on Frontiers of Data Engg. & AI
Hong Kong
China
44 Visual Graph Search: Opportunities and Challenges Dec 2024 Xidian University Annual Conference on International Cooperation
Xi'an
China
43 What If Leonardo Was a Database Educator? Jan 2024 Eindhoven University of Technology
Eindhoven
The Netherlands
42 To Draw is Human: Toward No-Code Subgraph Search Dec 2023 Xidian University
Xi'an
China
41 To Draw is Human: Toward No-Code Subgraph Search Oct 2023 CCS International Symposium
Tsukuba
Japan
40 Data-driven Management of COI in Peer Review Venues: Data Science in the Real World July 2023 Singapore Data Science Consortium
Singapore
Singapore
39 “Tell Me and I Forget, Teach Me and I May Remember, Involve Me and I Learn”: Towards Technology-enabled Learning of Relational Query Processing Nov 2022 POSTECH
Pohang
South Korea
38 To Draw is Human: Towards Usable Visual Subgraph Search Nov 2022 Hong Kong University of Science & Technology
Hong Kong
Hong Kong SAR
37 We Don't Need No Education: From Building for Coders to Building for Users Mar 2022 Hunan University
Changsha
China (Virtual)
36 TED Learn: Towards Technology-Enabled Database Education Jul 2021 POSTECH
Pohang
South Korea (Virtual)
35 TED Learn: Towards Technology-Enabled Database Education Apr 2021 The Dutch Seminar on Data Systems Design (DSDSD)
Amsterdam
The Netherlands (Virtual)
34 KANDINSKY: Abstract Art Meets YouTube Discussion Visualization for Online Learning Nov 2019 Future of Adult Learning Research Symposium (FoALR)
Singapore
Singapore
33 Visual > Text Sep 2019 School of Cyber Engg., Xidian University
Xi'an
China
32 Learning to Say No! Aug 2019 Singaporean Researcher Global Summit, NUS
Singapore
Singapore
31 Don't Make Me Learn: From Building for Coders to Building for Users Apr 2019 Big Data & AI Workshop, University of Hong Kong
Hong Kong
Hong Kong SAR
30 Visual > Text Mar 2019 Dept. of Creative Engg., POSTECH
Pohang
South Korea
29 Network Analytics Meets Drug Combination Discovery Oct 2018 Data Science and Blockchain Workshop (in conjunction with ER 2018)
Xi'an
China
28 Data Management in the AI World: An Area Whose Time has Come and Gone? Oct 2018 School of Cyber Engg., Xidian University
Xi'an
China
27 Graph Querying is Dead, Long Live (Visual) Graph Querying Jul 2018 Artificial Intelligence Research Center (AIRC)
Tokyo
Japan
26 Graph Querying is Dead, Long Live (Visual) Graph Querying Jul 2018 POSTECH
Pohang
South Korea
25 Data Management in the AI World: An Area Whose Time has Come and Gone? May 2018 Hong Kong Baptist University
Hong Kong
Hong Kong SAR
24 Graph Summarization: What Makes A Good Summary? Aug 2017 Department of Creative Engineering, Pohang Univ of Science and Technology (POSTECH)
Pohang
South Korea
23 To Invent or To Innovate?: The Role of Academic Research Mar 2017 Oracle
Singapore
Singapore
22 Towards In Silico Network-driven Combination Therapy: A Small Data Problem May 2016 Hong Kong Baptist University
Hong Kong
Hong Kong SAR
21 HumanDB: Towards Bridging the Chasm Between Data Management and HCI Nov 2015 University of Macao
Macao
China
20 HCI-aware Data Management: Towards Bridging the Chasm Between Data Management and HCI Jul 2015 Kyoto University
Kyoto
Japan
19 HCI-aware Data Management: Towards Bridging the Chasm Between Data Management and HCI Jun 2015 Eindhoven University of Technology (TU/e)
Eindhoven
The Netherlands
18 Towards Bridging the Chasm Between Graph Data Management and HCI Nov 2014 Dept of Computer Sc & Engg., Pohang Univ of Science and Technology (POSTECH)
Pohang
South Korea
17 INGOT: Towards Network-driven In Silico Combination Therapy Jan 2014 1st International Conference on Big Data and Smart Computing (BigComp 2014)
Bangkok
Thailand
16 Adventures with Social Images: The SONAR Experience Jul 2013 Tanaka & Tajima Lab, Dept of Social Informatics, Kyoto University
Kyoto
Japan
15 Towards In Silico Network-driven Combination Therapy: A Big Small Data Problem Jul 2013 Kyoto University
Kyoto
Japan
14 Towards In Silico Network-driven Combination Therapy: A Big Small Data Problem Jun 2013 Health Systems Complexity International Symposium, NTU
Singapore
Singapore
13 Towards In Silico Network-driven Combination Therapy: A Computational and Systems Biology-based Approach Mar 2013 2nd Health Systems Complexity Workshop, NTU
Singapore
Singapore
12 VIAGRA: Towards Visual Interaction-Aware Graph Querying Framework Dec 2011 International Workshop on Advanced Data Management (ADM 2011), Fudan Univ
Shanghai
China
11 Being David in Data Management World of Goliaths Aug 2011 3rd International Workshop with Mentors on Databases, Web, and Information Management for Young Researchers (iDB 2011)
Kyoto
Japan
10 GBLENDER: Visual Graph Query Formulation Meets Query Processing Jun 2010 Department of Computer Science, Missouri University of Science and Technology
Rolla
USA
9 Blog Cascade Affinity Nov 2009 Graduate School of Information, Production, and Systems, Waseda University
Tokyo
Japan
8 XBlend: Visual XML Query Formulation Meets Query Processing Jul 2008 Graduate School of Informatics, Kyoto University
Kyoto
Japan
7 Towards Da Vinci’s Notebook: Empowering Scientists to Explore Data Jun 2007 Graduate School of Informatics, Kyoto University
Kyoto
Japan
6 XANADUE: Scalable XML Change Detection in Relational Databases Nov 2006 Graduate School of Informatics, Kyoto University
Kyoto
Japan
5 Towards Da Vinci’s Notebook: Empowering Scientists to Explore Data May 2006 Shanghai-Jiaotong University
Shanghai
China
4 One Size Does Not Fit All: Research Challenges in Bioimaging Data Management May 2005 Tsinghua University
Beijing
China
3 Towards Privacy Preserving Data Integration Apr 2005 Graduate School Of Informatics, Kyoto University
Kyoto
Japan
2 Detecting and Representing Page-Level Relevant Web Deltas in WHOWEDA Jun 2000 School of Computer Science and Electrical Engineering, University of Queensland
Brisbane
Australia
1 Detecting and Representing Page-Level Relevant Web Deltas Using Web Join Apr 2000 School of Computer Science, University of South Australia
Adelaide
Australia