Nikolay Yakovets is an assistant professor of computer science at Technische Universiteit Eindhoven. He obtained his Ph.D. from Lassonde School of Engineering at York University in 2017. He worked on various database topics at IBM CAS Canada and Empress Software Canada. His current focus is on design and implementation of core database technologies, management of massive graph data, and efficient processing of queries on graphs. His recent activities include co-presenting a tutorial on graph query processing at EDBT 2017, co-organizing the 2017 edition of the Dutch-Belgian Database Day, and serving on a program committee of ICDE.