List of Present and Past Graduate Students and Research Staffs
We are Hiring PhD students and a Research Associate!!
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Note to Interns: If you wish to join as an intern, please note that I only take interns who spend at least 6 months in my lab and the research is of interest to me. You need to be self-funded (funded by your university).
I am delighted to work with some great bunch of grad students and research staffs. If you are interested to join our group, it is good to know the way we work:- We play with new ideas while following the mantra of quality over quantity on every aspect of our research. The list of projects that I am currently interested in can be found here.
- The above reason motivates me to keep my team lean. That is, I work with a small group of students and research staffs (at most 3-4 PhD students + 3-4 research staffs) and ensure that each of them receive quality supervision regularly.
- I DO NOT outsource PhD supervision to Post Docs. A doctoral student will be directly advised by me and have access to me anytime.
- We focus only on a few publications every year and aim for highly competitive and prestigious venues. We do not publish randomly and avoid paper "diarrhoea". Typically, a Ph.D. student needs around three hiqh quality first-authored papers coming out of his/her thesis.
- Since we like to play with no specific objective function to optimize, we are more interested on novel non-traditional problems that challenge conventional wisdom. The shorter the related work in your research, the more you can play :)
- Please visit academic link page to get an idea about professional societies I am interested in as well as important research-related information.
CURRENT GRADUATE STUDENTS AND RESEARCH STAFFS
| Name | Program | Year | Projects | Representative Publication Record | Awards/Honors |
| Zhixiang Lian | Visiting Graduate Student (Xidian) | 2024 | HINT | - | |
| Yining Zhao | PhD | 2022-present | PIANO | WWW [24] | - |
| Howard Chen | M. Engg (Research) | 2024-present | HENNA | - | |
| Haolan Duan | MSDS (Coursework) | 2023-2024 | INGOT | - |
FORMER DOCTORAL STUDENTS
| Name | Degree | Thesis Title | Year | Representative Publication Record | Awards/Honors | First Employment | Current Employment | |
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Renchi Yang | PhD (Comp. Sc.) | Efficient and Scalable PageRank-based Techniques for Graph Analytics | 2021 | VLDB J [23], VLDB [21,20], SIGMOD [19], KDD [17] | SIGMOD Research Highlights Award (2021), Best Research Paper Award in VLDB (2021), ACM SIGMOD Travel Award (2019) | Research Fellow, NUS | Assistant Professor, Hong Kong Baptist Univ |
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Xi Lin | PhD (Comp. Sc.) | Data-driven Travel Time and Demand Estimation of Vehicles in Smart Cities | 2020 | CIKM [19], IEEE Smart Cities (ISC2) [18] | ISC2 Best Paper Nominee (2018), ACM CIKM Travel Award (2019) | Data Scientist, Grab | Data Scientist, Grab |
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Huey Eng Chua | PhD (Comp. Sys. Bio) | TRECENTO: In Silico Network-driven Identification of Target Combinations for Combination Therapy | 2015 | Bioinformatics [15], ACM BCB [11, 12, 14, 16], SIGHIT[12a, 12b] | Research Fellow, NTU, Singapore | Product Owner, Illumina | |
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Boon Siew Seah | PhD (Comp. Sys. Bio) | Multi-resolution Functional Summarization and Alignment of Biological Network Models | 2014 | BCB [11], SIGHIT[12], BMC Bioinfo [12], Bioinformatics [12, 14], TKDE [16], Methods [14], ICDM [16] | Best Paper Award in ACM BCB 2011 | Data Scientist, IDA, Singapore | Director, Accenture, Singapore |
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Li Hui | PhD (Comp. Engg.) | iMASON: Towards Influence-driven Multi-level Analysis of Online Social Networks | 2012 | VLDBJ [14], DMKD [13], JASIST [11], EDBT [13], CIKM [09, 10, 11] | Assistant Professor, Xidian University, Xian, China | Professor, Xidian University, Xian, China | |
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Lakshmi Venkatraman | PhD (Comp. Sys. Bio) | Mathematical Model of Activation of Transforming Growth Factor-Beta1 With Application to Liver Fibrosis | 2012 | PSB[10], ADDR J [10], BioPhy J[11,12] | PDF, Eils Lab, University of Heidelberg, Germany | Computational Biologist, Proteona | |
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Yang Chu (Co-advisor) | PhD (Comp. Engg.) | Mapping, Indexing & Querying MPEG-7 Descriptors & Description Schemes | 2008 | DKE [07], DEXA [05] | |||
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Chen Ling | PhD (Comp. Engg.) | Mining Association Rules from the Evolution of Tree Structured Web Data | 2007 | VLDB [09], DASFAA [05,06,09], WWW [07], DKE [06a,06b,09], PAKDD[04,06] | Post Doc Fellow, L3S, University of Hanover, Germany | Professor, University of Technology, Sydney | |
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Erwin Leonardi | PhD (Comp. Engg.) | Scalable XML Change Detection Using Relational Databases | 2007 | SIGMOD [07], DKE [07,06], ER [06], CIKM [05], DASFAA [05,06], DEXA [05,04] | ACM Student Travel Award in ACM CIKM 2005 | SMA Research Associate, NTU | Data Science Lead, Rio Tinto, Singapore |
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Zhao Qiankun | PhD (Comp. Engg.) | Mining Evolution of Structure of Semistructured Web Data | 2007 | SIGKDD [06], WWW [06], CIKM [08, 05a, 05b, 04], PAKDD [06a,06b], PKDD [04], DASFAA [05], DKE [06] | Best Paper Award in ACM CIKM 2004, Distinguished Student Travel Grant in ACM CIKM 2004, ACM Student Travel Award in SIGKDD 2006 | Post Doc Fellow, Pennsylvania State University, USA | Chief Product Officer, Diact.com, Beijing |
FORMER MASTERS STUDENTS
| Name | Degree | Thesis Title | Year | Representative Publication Record | Awards/Honors | First Employment | Current Employment | |
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Xinyue Wang | MSc (Data Science) | Detecting and Analyzing Confirmation Bias in Social Conversation | 2024 | - | - | Chinese Academy of Sc, Beijing | Chinese Academy of Sc, Beijing |
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Eugenie Lee | MSc (Data Science) | Understanding influenza infections in human | 2024 | - | - | - | - |
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Hui Li | MEngg (Computer Sc) | Social Psychology Meets Online Information Diffusion | 2022 | SIGMOD [20], PAKDD [20] | - | - | - |
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Christina Lui | MSc (Info System) | KANDINSKY: Time-based Visualization of Online Social Comments | 2019 | SIGIR [19] | Finalist of NTU Global Digital Art Prize 2019 (14 finalist selected out of 459 applications from 73 countries) | - | Singapore Airlines |
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Sandeep Prakash | MEngg (Comp. Engg) | Efficient Storage and Querying of XML Data in Relational Databases | 2005 | ICDE [06], ER [04], DASFAA [07], DEXA [06,04] | Hewlett Packard | ||
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Denis A Shestakov | MEngg (Comp. Engg) | Modeling and Querying Web Forms | 2003 | DKE [06], DEXA [05,04] | PhD at University of Turku, Finland | Data Architect, Schibsted, Finland |
FORMER RESEARCH STAFFS
| Name | Position | Project(s) | Representative Publication Record | Completion Date | First Employment |
| Rudan Xu | Research Associate | DARE | Dec 2023 | ||
| Nerissa Xu | Research Asst | INGOT | VLDB [22], ACB BCB [24] | May 2023 | LKC Medicine |
| Huey-Eng Chua | Senior Research Fellow | INGOT, HINT | SIGMOD [18, 19, 20, 21, 22], VLDB [21, 22], TKDE [17], ICDM [16], Bioinformatics [15, 17], Methods [17], ACB BCB [14,16, 17, 22], BigComp[14] | Feb 2022 | Illumina |
| Reine Fang | Research Assistant | Adult Learning | - | Apr 2021 | Foodpanda |
| Partha Pratim Kundu | Research Fellow | HINT | - | Oct 2019 | I2R, ASTAR |
| Yang Zhao | Research Assoc. | GREASE | - | Sept 2019 | PhD (NTU) |
| Weiguo Wang | Research Asst. | TRUSS | SIGMOD [21, 22] | Aug 2019 | Alibaba |
| Zekun Ye | Research Asst. | HINT | VLDB [21], SIGMOD [22] | March 2018 | - |
| Zifeng Yuan | Research Asst. | HINT | SIGMOD [20, 22], VLDB [21] | March 2018 | - |
| Jia Shi | Research Asst | HINT | - | July 2017 | Paypal |
| Yinglong Song | Research Asst | HINT | SIGMOD [18, 20] | July 2017 | eBay |
| Kai Huang | Project Officer | HINT | VLDB [17], SIGMOD [19, 20, 21] | Dec 2016 | Ph.D (Fudan) |
| Miao Xie | Project Officer | HINT | ICDE [19], VLDB [18], VLDB J [17, 20] | Sep 2015 | Huawei |
| Rachit Dubey | Project Officer | HINT | - | July 2015 | Ph.D (UC, Berkeley) |
| Dingxian Wang | Project Officer | HINT | - | July 2014 | eBay |
| Chaohui Wang | Project Officer | HINT | ICDE [19], VLDB J [20] | June 2014 | |
| Ba Quan Truong | Project Officer | SIERRA, XCALIBUR, HINT | SIGIR[17], MM[13], SIGMOD [13], WWW[12,14], DASFAA [13], ICMR[12] | August 2013 | M.S (Stanford Univ) |
| Peixi Zhao | Research Associate | INGOT | ACM BCB [11], SIGHIT[12] | July 2011 | Local industry |
| Bo Zhang | Project Officer | HINT | Sept 2010 | ||
| Changjiu Jin | Project Officer | HINT | SIGMOD [10, 11], ICDE [12] | Mar 2010 | Ph.D. (Univ of Waterloo, Canada) |
| Erwin Leonardi | Research Fellow | XCALIBUR | ICDE [09], CIKM [09], DASFAA[12] | Nov 2008 | Post Doc (Delft Univ, Holland) |
| Colin Zhou | Project Officer | XCALIBUR | ICDE [09] | Apr 2008 | Local industry |
| Klarinda G Widjanarko | Project Officer | XCALIBUR | ICDE [09], DASFAA [07a, 07b] | June 2007 | Local industry |
FORMER INTERNS
| Name | Program | University | Year | Project | Representative Publication Record |
| Tianyue Ren | PhD | Hunan University, China | 2023-2024 | HINT | - |
| Baochao Xu | Masters | Xidian University, China | 2024 | TRUSS | - |
| Wilhelm Persch | Masters | TU Dresden, Germany | 2022-2023 | DARE | N.A. |