题　目：The Data Landscape: Trends and Directions

嘉　宾：C. Mohan, Distinguished Professor, Hong Kong Baptist University

主持人：林学民 讲席教授 上海交通大学安泰经济与管理学院

时　间：2025年10月29日（周三）10:00-11:30

地　点：上海交通大学 徐汇校区包图A301

内容简介:  Five decades ago, the ACM SIGMOD and VLDB annual database (DB) conferences began. The initial set of relational DB products became available about four decades ago. Starting from around that time, I began working on various DB topics at the birthplace of the relational model and the SQL language, until my retirement 5 years ago as an IBM Fellow at IBM Research in Silicon Valley. As someone who has been, and who continues to be, active as an individual contributor in the DB area for nearly five decades, in this talk, I will give a broad overview of the evolution of the data landscape. I will discuss not only research topics but also the trends in the commercial and standards arenas. I will also present market share figures from data analysts. Some of the topics to be covered: cloud computing, intelligent computing, AI4DB and DB4AI, HTAP systems, LLMs, data analysts’ forecasts, workloads and benchmarks. 

I intend for my observations to be of value to not only deeply technical people in the research and product spaces but also to management and administration type people who are responsible for data related topics. I will also discuss some China specific topics: Need for Chinese researchers to impact the world that goes beyond just publishing papers, Chinese companies and their DB products, what it will take for their influence to spread outside China.

演讲人简介： Dr. C. Mohan is currently a Distinguished Professor of Science at Hong Kong Baptist University, a Distinguished Visiting Professor at Tsinghua University in China, and a member of the inaugural Board of Governors of Digital University Kerala. He retired in June 2020 from being an IBM Fellow at the IBM Almaden Research Center in Silicon Valley. He was an IBM researcher for 38.5 years in the database, blockchain, AI and related areas, impacting numerous IBM and non-IBM products, the research and academic communities, and standards, especially with his invention of the well-known ARIES family of database locking and recovery algorithms, and the Presumed Abort distributed commit protocol. This IBM (1997-2020), ACM (2002-) and IEEE (2003-) Fellow has also served as the IBM India Chief Scientist (2006-2009). In addition to receiving the ACM SIGMOD Edgar F. Codd Innovations Award (1996), the VLDB 10 Year Best Paper Award (1999) and numerous IBM awards, Mohan was elected to the United States and Indian National Academies of Engineering (2009), and named an IBM Master Inventor (1997). This Distinguished Alumnus of IIT Madras (1977) received his PhD at the University of Texas at Austin (1981). He is an inventor of 50 patents. During the last many years, he focused on Blockchain, AI, Big Data and Cloud technologies (https://bit.ly/sigBcP, https://bit.ly/CMoTalks). During 1H2021, Mohan was the Shaw Visiting Professor at the National University of Singapore. Since 2016, Mohan has been a Distinguished Visiting Professor of China’s prestigious Tsinghua University. In 2023, he was named Distinguished Professor of Science of Hong Kong Baptist University. In 2021, he was inducted as a member of the inaugural Board of Governors of the new Indian university Digital University Kerala. Mohan has served on the advisory board of IEEE Spectrum, and on numerous conference and journal boards. During most of 2022, he was a consultant at Google with the title of Visiting Researcher. He has also been a Consultant to the Microsoft Data Team in 2020. Mohan is a frequent speaker in North America, Europe and Asia. He has given talks in 43 countries. He is highly active on social media and has a huge network of followers.

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