The IEEE TCDE Impact Award recognises database researchers from around the world who have made an impact beyond the data engineering field or shown impact beyond research to industrial practice and have contributed to expanding the data engineering field. Professor Timos Selis, an expert in the fields of Big Data, Database Systems, Spatio-temporal Database Systems, Data Warehouses, Data Streams, etc- is an IEEE fellow and currently holds the position of the Director of
Swinburne Data Science Research Institute in Australia.