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Dr. C. Mohan shares insights on data landscape in a Distinguished Lecture organised by the Department of Computer Science

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Dr. C. Mohan from Tsinghua University visited the HKBU campus and delivered a Distinguished Lecture on “The Data Landscape: Trends and Directions” on 22 November 2022 organised by the Department of Computer Science. 

Dr. Mohan worked on various database management topics in Silicon Valley – the birthplace of the relational model and SQL language – for over four decades. In the lecture, he provided a broad overview of the evolution of the data landscape and reviewed the trends of database management in the commercial and standards areas. He also presented some market share numbers from data analysts and shared his insights on the data landscape. 

The Lecture provided a valuable platform for faculty members and attendees to exchange ideas and engage in interactive discussions. 

About the speaker:

Retired from his role as an IBM Fellow at the IBM Almaden Research Center two years ago, Dr. Mohan is currently a Distinguished Visiting Professor at Tsinghua University and a Visiting Researcher at Google. Being an IBM researcher for 38.5 years, Dr. Mohan is the primary inventor of the well-known ARIES family of database recovery and concurrency control methods, as well as the industry-standard Presumed Abort commit protocol. He also worked on database, blockchain, AI and related areas, making tremendous impact on numerous IBM and non-IBM products, the research and academic communities, and standards. 

In 1996, Dr. Mohan received the ACM SIGMOD Edgar F. Codd Innovations Award in recognition of his innovative contributions to the development and use of database systems. In 2009, Dr. Mohan was elected to the United States National Academy of Engineering. Being an ACM Fellow and an IEEE Fellow, Dr. Mohan has served on the advisory board of IEEE Spectrum and on numerous conference and journal boards. 

Dr. C. Mohan delivers Distinguished Lecture on “The Data Landscape: Trends and Directions”.

Dr. C. Mohan delivers Distinguished Lecture on “The Data Landscape: Trends and Directions”.

Professor Jiming Liu, Dean of Science (left) presents a souvenir to Dr. C. Mohan.

Professor Jiming Liu, Dean of Science (left) presents a souvenir to Dr. C. Mohan.

Participants are enthusiastic about the topic and exchange their thoughts during the Q&A session.

Participants are enthusiastic about the topic and exchange their thoughts during the Q&A session.