- Affiliate Professor at University of Washington, where I occasionally teach CSEP 545 Transaction Processing.
- Member of the National Academy of Engineering and Washington State Academy of Sciences.
- Awards: Fellow of the ACM and the AAAS; SIGMOD Edgar F. Codd Innovations Award.
- Editorial Board member: Information Systems, Springer Data-Centric Systems and Applications.
- Recent conference program committees: SIGMOD 2021 (Associate Editor); VLDB 2020 (Associate Editor); VLDB 2019; SIGMOD 2018 (PC Chair, Chair’s Report), SIGMOD 2017, SIGMOD 2016, HPTS 2015 (PC Chair), VLDB 2015, SIGMOD 2014, SIGMOD 2013, ICDE 2013, CIDR 2013, SIGMOD 2012, VLDB 2012 E&A
- Advisory Boards: Computing Research Association (CRA): Finance Committee; SIGMOD; ACM New Publications Committee.
- Emeritus: The VLDB Journal, Editor-in-Chief; University of Washington, Tacoma Institute of Technology Technical Advisory Board member; Computing Research Association (CRA): Treasurer, Member of the Board of Directors; Member of the Board on Mathematical Sciences and Applications (The National Academies); Washington State Academy of Sciences Board of Directors Member; Symposium on Cloud Computing: Steering Committee; Journal of Web Semantics Editorial Board Member; OMICS – A Journal of Integrative Biology Editorial Board Member; PVLDB Advisory Board; World Wide Web: Internet and Web Information Systems