Service to the Professional Community

• Information Chair, ACM SIGMOD 2009
• Program Committee Member: ICDM 2009-10; ACM CIKM 2007 – 2009; ACM CIKM PhD Workshop 2007; XSym (Held in conjunction with VLDB); ER Conference; ODBASE Conference; WIDM, WISE, XSDM Workshop (held in conjunction with ICDE), PDMST (P2P Data Management, Security and Trust), ICDCIT (International Conference on Distributed Computing and Internet Technology) , XANTEC (International Workshop on XML Data Management Tools and Techniques)
• Referee: ACM TODS, VLDB Journal, ACM TOIT, ACM TOIS, IPL (Information Processing Letters), Information Systems, DKE, AIEDAM
• NSF Panel Member: Nov 2003, Jun 2004, Jun 2006, Jan 2008, Feb 2009
• Peer Reviewer: Extreme Markup Languages 2003 - 07
• External Reviewer: VLDB 2000, VLDB 2002, ICDM 2002, SIGMOD 2003
• Organizer of NEDS (New England Database Seminar) with Prof. Michael Kifer (Feb 11, 2005)
• Started Database Group at University of Michigan, Flint. Also helped start dbUCLA (now called idmUCLA) research group along with other database research students at UCLA.

Service to University of Michigan, Flint

• Helped design a first year course plan for CIS and CSC majors coming with different backgrounds (along with Dr. Turner and Dr. Uludag), 2010
• Oversaw the Radhabai and Rajagopal scholarship (with Mr. Galerneau), 2010
• Helped with the Freeman scholarship (along with Dr. Mazumdar and Dr. Ganguly), 2010

Service while at WPI

• Advisor for Freshmen Class, 2008-09 (Recognized by advisees as the second best advisor from about 40 faculty advisors)
• CS Minor Advisor, 2008-09
• Elected Member of WPI Campus Wide Committees: Committee on Academic Operations (2007-09), and secretary from 2008-09; Undergraduate Outcomes Assessment Committee (2006 – 09).
• Elected Member of Computer Science Dept, WPI Promotions Committee, 2008-09
• Member of several CS Dept committees: Graduate and Research Committee; Graduate Admissions Committee; Undergraduate and Education Committee; Colloquium Committee; Undergraduate Council.
• Organized Computer Science Department, WPI Colloquia with Bruce Croft (Apr 2008), Donghui Zhang (Apr 2006), Sanjay Madria (Apr 2005), Michael Kifer (Feb 2005), Michael Sperberg McQueen (Fall 2004), David Booth (Spring 2004)