Prof. Dr. Adnan Yazıcı is the chairman of Dept. of Computer Engineering, METU. He received his Ph.D. in Computer Science from the Department of Electrical Engineering and Computer Science at Tulane University, USA, in 1991, where he also has been a visiting professor between 1998 and 2000. His current research interests include intelligent database systems, fuzzy database modeling, indexing structures, spatio-temporal databases, multimedia and video databases, and wireless multimedia sensor networks. Prof.Dr. Adnan Yazıcı has published more than 160 international technical papers and co-authored two books, which are titled Fuzzy Database Modeling (by Springer) and Uncertainty Approaches for Spatial Data Modeling and Processing: a Decision Support Perspective (by Springer). He is a senior member of IEEE and has received IBM Faculty Award for 2011 and Young Investigator Award bestowed by the Parlar Foundation, for the year 2001. Dr. Yazıcı was a Conference Co-Chair of 23rd IEEE International Conference on Data Engineering (ICDE-2007) in 2007. He was the Conference and Program Committee Chair of 18th International Symposium of Computer and Information Sciences (ISCIS 2003), and a Program Committee co-chair of  of ISCIS 2009 and ISCIS 2010. He is currently a Conference Co-Chair of 38th Very Large Data Bases (VLDB 2012) and Flexible Query Answering Systems (FQAS 2011) conferences. He is the director of Multimedia Database Lab. in the Computer Engineering Department at METU.