Short biography:

David Lomet has been a senior researcher and manager of the Database Group at Microsoft Research, Redmond, Washington since 1995. Before that, he spent six years at Digital Equipment Corporation's Cambridge Research Lab (CRL), after spending a year and a half working in Digital's Rdb database group. Earlier, he was a researcher at the IBM Thomas J. Watson Research Center in Yorktown and subsequently a professor of Information Technology at the Wang Institute of Graduate Studies. Dr. Lomet spent a sabbatical at the University of Newcastle-upon-Tyne working on software reliability with Brian Randell. He has a Ph.D in Computer Science from the University of Pennsylvania.

Dr. Lomet has done research and product engineering in the areas of machine architecture, programming languages, and distributed systems. He is most known for his work in database systems and transactions. He is one of the inventors of the transaction concept. His work in database systems and transactions has focussed on access methods, concurrency control, and recovery. He is the author of over 80 papers and has over 25 patents. Two of his papers have won SIGMOD "best paper" awards.

Dr. Lomet has served on many program committees, including major database conferences (SIGMOD, VLDB, and ICDE). He was the ICDE'2000 PC co-chair and is the VLDB'06 core track PC chair. He is a member of the ICDE Steering Committee and the IEEE TCDE Executive Committee. He has attended several NSF and ACM "research directions" workshops. Dr. Lomet has served as editor-in-chief of the Data Engineering Bulletin since 1992 and has been an editor of ACM TODS, the VLDB Journal, and the Journal of Distributed and Parallel Databases. He is an IEEE Golden Core Member and has received IEEE Outstanding Contribution and Meritorious Service Awards. Dr. Lomet is a Fellow of both the ACM and the IEEE.