Dr. Anirban Mondal is an Associate Professor of Computer Science at Ashoka University. He has a Ph.D. in Computer Science from the National University of Singapore, an MBA from the University of Massachusetts Amherst (UMass) and a B.Tech. (Hons.) in Computer Science & Engineering from the Indian Institute of Technology (IIT) Kharagpur, India. During the past 18+ years, he has led multiple key projects for envisioning, designing and architecting end-to-end systems in domains such as urban informatics (smart cities), spatial databases and financial analytics. His technological expertise coupled with his business capabilities as well as his ability to create a big vision and execute it to completion in diverse multi-cultural settings make him an exciting innovator. His research interests include big data analytics, mobile and ubiquitous data management, incentive-based mobile crowdsourcing, spatial databases, database indexing, Big Data, IoT, distributed databases and large-scale data management in distributed systems such as P2P environments. He has an established reputation, key presence and high visibility in the international research community and contributes pro-actively to local research communities as well. He has numerous publications in key conferences/journals and is actively involved as a PC Chair/Co-chair, PC member, journal reviewer as well as keynote/tutorial speaker at reputed international conferences/workshops. More recently, he has served as the General Chair for BDA 2020, and he is serving as the one of the General Chairs of DASFAA 2022. He has a proven track record in establishing international research collaborations. His research collaborations include prestigious Universities in Japan, Singapore, USA, Canada, Australia and India.