Programme Committee Member

prof. dr. Avigdor Gal

Faculty of Industrial Engineering & Management,

Technion -- Israel Institute of Technology, Haifa, Israel

home page:http://ie.technion.ac.il/~avigal/

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Avigdor Gal is an Associate professor at the Faculty of Industrial Engineering & Management at the Technion. He received his D.Sc. degree from the Technion - Israel Institute of Technology in 1995 in the area of temporal active databases. During his studies, Avigdor has received the Miriam and Aaron Gutwirth Scholarship three years in a row (1993-1995). He has published more than 80 papers in journals (e.g. Journal of the ACM (JACM), ACM Transactions on Database Systems (TODS),  IEEE Transactions on Knowledge and Data Engineering (TKDE), ACM Transactions on Internet Technology (TOIT), and the VLDB Journal), books (Temporal Databases: Research and Practice) and conferences (ICDE, ER, CoopIS, BPM) on the topics of data integration, temporal databases, information systems architectures, and active databases.

Avigdor is a member of CoopIS (Cooperative Information Systems) Advisory Board, a member of IFIP WG 2.6, and a recipient of the IBM Faculty Award for 2002-2004. He is a member of the ACM  and a senior member of IEEE. Avigdor served as a Program co-Chair and General Chair of CoopIS, and in various roles in ER and CIKM. He served as a program committee member in SIGMOD, VLDB, ICDE and others. Avigdor is an Area Editor of the Encyclopedia of Database Systems.