Victor Vianu received his PhD in Computer Science from the University of Southern
California in 1983 and joined UC San Diego in 1984. Aside from UCSD, he has taught at  
the Ecole Normale Superieure and Ecole Nationale Superieure des Telecommunications in Paris, 
as well as the Sorbonne, and has spent sabbaticals as invited professor at INRIA.
Vianu's interests include database theory, computational logic, and Web data.
His most recent research focuses on static analysis of XML-based systems,
and specification and verification of data-driven Web services and workflows.
Vianu's publications include over 100 research articles and a graduate textbook on database theory. He received the PODS Alberto Mendelzon Test-of-Time Award in 2010 and has given numerous invited talks including keynotes at PODS, ICDT, STACS, the Annual Meeting of 
the Association of Symbolic Logic, and the Federated Logic Conference.
Vianu has served as General Chair of SIGMOD and PODS, and Program Chair of the PODS 
and ICDT conferences. He is currently Editor-in-Chief of the Journal of the ACM 
and Area Editor of ACM Transactions on Computational Logic. 
He was elected Fellow of the ACM in 2006.