Publication record available on DBLP; supervised multiple PhD and MPhil students who have graduated and are now in senior positions at companies like Huawei and Alibaba or as professors at various universities; principal investigator for several research projects, such as Advancing Learned Index Structures for Databases via Non-linear Functions (2024-2026) among others; recipient of SSTD 2025 10-Year Impact Award; member of program committees for numerous international conferences including SIGMOD, VLDB, ICDE, etc.
Research Experience
Worked at Aalborg University from 2006 to 2009; currently a professor at Hong Kong Polytechnic University.
Education
Received Bachelor's degree in Computer Engineering from the University of Hong Kong in 2002; PhD in Computer Science from the University of Hong Kong in 2006.
Background
Research interests: databases, particularly query processing topics on spatiotemporal and multidimensional data. Currently a professor at the Department of Computing, Hong Kong Polytechnic University.
Miscellany
Contact information provided on personal webpage, including phone, office address, and email; specific requirements for PhD applicants; reviewer for journals such as IEEE TKDE, VLDBJ, and more; editorial advisory board member for Information Systems; area chair and program committee member for various international conferences.