Janis A. Bubenko jr (Ph.D, Docent, Dr. Ing. h.c., ACM Fellow) is professor emeritus in Information Systems at the Royal Institute of Technology and University of Stockholm. He was professor at University of Gothenburg and Chalmers Univ. of Technology 1977-81, and at the Royal Institute of Technology and University of Stockholm 1982 – 2000. He founded the Swedish Institute for Systems Development, SISU, and was its managing director 1985-92. Bubenko is the author/co-author of several textbooks in the areas of Information Systems Development Methods, Performance Analysis of Data Processing Systems, Operating Systems, and Conceptual Modelling Methods. He is also the author/co-author of more than 150 research reports and published articles.
Bubenko was the general chair of IFIP TFAIS (Theoretical and Formal Aspects of Information Systems) working conference 1985, CAiSE'90 Stockholm, and EDBT'94 in Cambridge, U.K. He was program co-chair of VLDB 1978 in West Berlin, of CAiSE'91 (Conference on Advanced Information System Engineering), Trondheim, and of the Baltic DB'94 workshop on National Infrastructure Databases in Vilnius and of WITS*98 in Helsinki. He has been a PC member of more than 50 international conferences and associate or advisory editor of six scientific journals. He has been engaged as reviewer of NSF, CEC, the European Commission, and other funding organisations. Bubenko was vice president of the VLDB Endowment 1985 - 1989, and president of the VLDB Endowment during 1990 - 1993. He was also member of the board of the EDBT Foundation. He is a member of ACM, and IFIP Working Groups 8.1 and 9.7..He is advisor to the CAiSE and the Baltic DB & IS conference series.
He was Program Chair of the First Conference on History of Nordic Computing (HiNC 1), Trondheim, 2003. In 2004 Bubenko was awarded a honorary doctorate of engineering by the Riga Technical University, Latvia.
