David W. Embley, professor, Brigham Young University (BYU), U.S.A. 2010: John Mylopoulos, professor, University of Toronto, Canada, and University of Trento, Italy 2011: Tok Wang Ling, professor, National University of Singapore (NUS), Singapore 2012: Stefano Spaccapietra, honorary professor, Swiss Federal Institute of Technology (EPFL), Switzerland 2013: Carlo Batini, professor, University of Milano-Bicocca, Italy 2014: Antonio L. Furtado, professor, PUC-Rio, Brazil 2015: Il-Yeol Song, professor, Drexel University, U.S.A. 2016: Óscar Pastor, professor, Universitat Politècnica de València, Spain 2017: Yair Wand, CANFOR Professor in MIS, University of British Columbia, CANADA 2018: Veda C. Storey, Tull Professor of Computer Information Systems, Georgia State University, Atlanta, U.S.A. 2019: Eric Yu, professor, University of Toronto, Canada. 2020: Matthias Jarke, Professor, RWTH Aachen University, Germany and Chairman, Fraunhofer ICT Group. 2021: Sudha Ram, Anheuser-Busch Professor of MIS, Entrepreneurship and Innovation, University of Arizona, U.S.A. 2022: Maurizio Lenzerini Professor of Computer Science and Engineering, Sapienza University of Rome, Italy. Peter Chen Big Data Young Researcher Award To recognize Chen's pioneering role and contributions in building the foundation for big data modeling and analysis, the "Peter Chen Big Data Young Researcher Award" was established in 2015 by the Service Society and the steering committee of eight co-located IEEE Conferences (IEEE ICWS/SCC/CLOUD/MS/BigDataCongress/SERVICES), to honor a very promising young big data researcher each year in the IEEE Big Data Congress and co-located conferences, starting from IEEE BigData 2015 Congress. The Peter Chen Big Data Young Researcher Award winners are: 2015: Yi Chen, associate professor, New Jersey Institute of Technology, U.S.A. 2016: Wei Tan, Research Staff Member, IBM Thomas J. Watson Research Center, Yorktown Heights, NY USA. 2017: Ilkay Altintas, Chief Data Science Officer, San Diego Supercomputer Center, Univ. of California, San Diego, USA. Work Entity–relationship modeling and conceptual data modeling The entity–relationship model serves as the foundation of many systems analysis and design methodologies, computer-aided software engineering (CASE) tools, and repository systems. The ER model is the basis for IBM's Repository Manager/MVS and DEC's CDD/Plus. Chen's original paper is commonly cited as the definitive reference for entity relationship modeling though the concept of object relationship had been developed a year earlier by Schmid and Swenson as reported in the 1975 ACM SIGMOD Proceedings . Chen is one of the pioneers of using entity–relationship concepts in software and information system modeling and design. Before Chen's paper, the basic entity–relationship ideas were used mostly informally by practitioners. Chen first published an abstract