Published a paper on classifying gene expression data using top-k covering rule groups in SIGMOD 2005; Google Scholar profile, ACM author profile, and papers @ [DBLP]; Involved in organizing several international conferences including PC co-chair for ICDE'22, workshop co-chair for CIKM'21, etc.
Research Experience
2018-Present: Professor, College of Computing and Data Science, Nanyang Technological University, Singapore; 2015-2018: Associate Professor, Nanyang Technological University, Singapore; 2010-2015: Assistant Professor, Nanyang Technological University, Singapore; 2008-2010: Assistant Professor, Department of Computer Science and Center for Data-intensive Systems (Daisy), Aalborg University, Denmark; 2007-2008: Researcher, Microsoft Research Asia; 2004-2006: Postdoc Research Fellow, Database group within the School of Informatics, University of Edinburgh; 1999-2000: Shenzhen Huawei Company, China.
Education
2000-2004: Ph.D. student, Department of Computer Science, National University of Singapore; 1992-1999: Master and Bachelor, Tianjin University, China.
Background
Research interests: Spatial Data Management (Spatial +X Data Systems), ML/AI for Databases, Spatio-temporal Data Mining and Smart City, Recommendation Systems. Brief introduction: Currently a Professor at the College of Computing and Data Science, Nanyang Technological University, Singapore, affiliated with the Data Management Research Group (DANTE).
Miscellany
Division Head, Division of Data Science, CCDS, NTU, 2024; Co-director for the Singtel Cognitive and Artificial Intelligence Lab for Enterprises (SCALE@NTU), 2019-2024; Assistant Chair (Alumni and outreach), School of Computer Science and Computer Engineering, 2018-2024; Teaches multiple courses such as Data Analytics and Mining, Data Processing Ethics, Introduction to Databases, etc.