Xin Luna Dong Author & Editor

Xin Luna Dong is a senior research scientist at Google Inc. Prior to joining Google, she worked for AT&T Labs-Research. She received her Ph.D. from University of Washington, received a Master's Degree from Peking University in China, and a Bachelor's Degree from Nankai University in China. Her research interests include databases, information retrieval, and machine learning, with an emphasis on data integration, data cleaning, knowledge bases, and personal information management. She has published more than 50 papers in top conferences and journals in the field of data integration, and got the Best Demo award (one of top-3) in Sigmod 2005. She is the PC co-chair for WAIM 2015 and has served as an area chair for Sigmod 2015, ICDE 2013, and CIKM 2011. Divesh Srivastava is the head of Database Research at AT&T Labs-Research. He is a fellow of the Association for Computing Machinery (ACM), on the board of trustees of the VLDB Endowment, the managing editor of the Proceedings of the VLDB Endowment (PVLDB), and an associate editor of the ACM Transactions on Database Systems. He received his Ph.D. from the University of Wisconsin, Madison, and his Bachelor of Technology from the Indian Institute of Technology, Bombay, India. His research interests and publications span a variety of topics in data management. He has published over 250 papers in top conferences and journals. He has served as PC Chair or Co-chair of many international conferences including ICDE 2015 (Industrial) and VLDB 2007.