📣 We are delighted to announce the SIGMOD 2026 Research Track Best Paper Award Winner and Honorable Mentions! Congratulations to all the authors below! 👏👏👏 💐 💐
The best paper selection committee for SIGMOD 2026 members (research track) were: Dan Olteanu, Divesh Srivastava (chair), @RBorovica Renata Borovica-Gajic, @t_rabl Tilmann Rabl, and @zgives Zack Ives.
SIGMOD 2026 Best Paper:
GPM: The Gaussian Pancake Mechanism for Planting Undetectable Backdoors in Differential Privacy
Haochen Sun (University of Waterloo) and Xi He (University of Waterloo)
Three Honorable Mentions:
F3: The Open-Source Data File Format for the Future
Xinyu Zeng (Tsinghua University), Ruijun Meng (Tsinghua University), Martin Prammer (Carnegie Mellon University), Wes McKinney (Posit PBC), Jignesh Patel (Carnegie Mellon University), Andrew Pavlo (Carnegie Mellon University), and Huanchen Zhang (Tsinghua University)
Integrating Vector Databases across Embedding Models
Beining Yang (University of Edinburgh), Yang Cao (University of Edinburgh), and Yang Ren (Edinburgh Research Center, Central Software Institute, Huawei)
Sublime: Sublinear Error & Space for Unbounded Skewed Streams
Navid Eslami (University of Toronto), Ioana Bercea (KTH Royal Institute of Technology), Rasmus Pagh (BARC, University of Copenhagen), Niv Dayan (University of Toronto)
https://t.co/vriPTehdVS
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Congratulations ot the winners of the 2026 SIGMOD Jim Gray Doctoral Dissertation Awards!!!
Source: https://t.co/Jf9ziNdsTR
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The best data platforms aren’t built by adding more. They’re built by removing what gets in the way.
10 years ago, a Snowflake team wrote a paper on that idea. Today it received the 2026 @sigmod Test-of-Time Award.
Revisiting the thinking that shaped Snowflake, straight from our co-founders 👇
https://t.co/cZzvPrsW1D
SIGMOD Record - Issue March 2026 (Vol. 55, No. 1) is now available: https://t.co/dqKyBQ3Fs9
Special issue covering a selection of the best conference papers from 2025 in data management. These papers have been given the '2025 ACM SIGMOD Research Highlight Award'.
Call for Papers — PODS 2027 Round 1
We invite papers on presenting principled contributions to modeling, application, and system building in the context of data management.
More details on https://t.co/atQ2Tklpo1
Congratulations to the SIGMOD members who have been named ACM Fellows for 2025!!!
Angela Bonifati, Zi Helen Huang, Wolfgang Lehner, Mohamed F Mokbel, Themis Palpanas, Kian-Lee Tan, Li Xiong, and Ke Yi!
https://t.co/xKAsJRAb0D
Dear Database Researchers,
We are now seeking nominations from the database community for the 2025 Research Highlights.
Check the following msg for details:
https://t.co/jnjpCASAXW
Congratulations to the SIGMOD members who have been named ACM Fellows for 2024:
Lei Chen, Guoliang Li, Arenas Marcelo, Fatma Ozcan, Haixun Wang, and Jingren Zhou! 👏👏👏
https://t.co/tn2HbCgN2q
https://t.co/fnwTSXUKts
🏆 The ACM SIGMOD Test of time award (2025) goes to
K-shape: Efficient and accurate clustering of time series
John Paparrizos, Luis Gravano
https://t.co/BnRx4JPNAW