Gao Cong  (丛 高) Block N4, 2c-103 School of Computer Science and Engineering  Nanyang Technological University   Email   gaocong at ntu.edu.sg

Short Biography

2018 -- present: Professor, SCSE, Nanyang Technological University, Singapore. Affiliated to the Data Management Research Group (DANTE)
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, the Database group within the School of Informatics of University of Edinburgh.
2000 -- 2004: Ph.D. student and Pre-doc,  Department of Computer Science, National University of Singapore, Singapore.
1999 -- 2000: ShenZhen Huawei Company, China
1992 -- 1999: Master and Bachelor, Tianjin University, China.
My long CV can be found here.

Research Interests

        My current research interests: Data Management and Data Mining

• Spatial data management and geo-textual data management  (more)
• Spatial data mining and smart city (more)
• Machine learning for data management  (more)
• Recommendation and social media mining (more)
• Data mining and large scale data analytics 

My past research interests:

• Classifying gene expression data:
• Classifying tool RCBT using top-k covering rule groups in SIGMOD05 paper is available here (Linux version), or here (together with several other tools for mining microarray data from my Ph.D. advisor Anthony’s group).  The datasets used in our SIGMOD05 paper are available here
• Mining interesting association rules and frequent patterns
• XML, Data cleaning 

Publications  (By year)

My Google Scholar Profile, my ACM author profile, and my papers @ [DBLP]

Released data and code

Demonstration of some of our research

Main Admin Duty

• Co-director for the Singtel Cognitive and Artificial Intelligence Lab for Enterprises (SCALE@NTU)
• Assistant Chair (Alumni and outreach), School of Computer Science and Computer Engineering

Our Research Team (members)

Teaching

Data Analytics and Mining, 2021-now, NTU
Data Processing Ethtics (Mini-Master course), 2021-now, NTU
Introduction to Databases, 2019--now, NTU
Information Analytics and Retrieval, 2019--now, NTU
Database System Principles, 2013--2018, NTU
Database Systems 2010--2012, NTU
Information Retrieval 2011 (with Jung-jae Kim), NTU
Natural Language Processing 2010-- 2011 (with Jung-jae Kim), NTU
Algorithms 2010 -- 2011 , NTU
Data warehouse and Data Mining  2008 Fall (with Thomas and Manfred) , AAU
Introduction to Internet Technologies 2008--2009 (with Ken, Man Lung Yiu) , AAU
Database Technology 2008--2009 (with my colleagues), AAU

Professional Services

Associate editor, ACM transactions on Database Systems

PC co-chair for ICDE'22

Workshop co-chair for CIKM'21

Associate General Chair for KDD'21

Tutorial Track co-chair, PAKDD 2020

PC co-chair for ADC'18

PC co-chair for PhD forum and posters Track of ASONAM 

PC co-chair for the 13th International Conference on Advanced Data Mining and Applications (ADMA'17)

PC vice-chair for ICDE'18

PC co-chair for E&A track of PVLDB'14

Publication chair for The 25th Pacific Asia Conference on Language Information and Computing (PACLIC), 2011  

    Program Committee:

Senior PC:  SIGSPTIAL(22), KDD(19-22), CIKM (17,18,22), AAAI(21), IEEE Big Data’17

2023: SIGMOD, VLDB, etc
2022: SIGMOD, WWW, etc
2021: VLDB, ICDE, WWW, etc
2020: VLDB, SIGMOD, KDD, ICDE, DASFAA, etc.
2019: VLDB, KDD, ICDE, ICDM, CIKM, DASFAA, etc.
2018: VLDB, SIGMOD, WWW, KDD, DASFAA, etc.
2017: VLDB, CIKM, WWW, WSDM, AAAI, ICDM, IEEE Big Data, SSTD, SIGSpatial, DASFAA, etc.
2016: KDD, ICDM, VLDB, CIKM, WWW, AAAI, IEEE Big Data, etc.
2015:  SIGKDD, WWW, ICDE,  ACL, DASFAA, WAIM, CIKM
2014:  SIGKDD, WWW, CIKM, SDM, ICDE, DASFAA, ACL, EMNLP, ICWSM, WAIM
2013:  PVLDB, SIGKDD, ICDM, SDM, CIKM, ICDE, PAKDD, WWW, DASFAA,
2012: PVLDB, ICDE, NAACL-HLT, DASFAA, PAKDD, SIGKDD, ICDM, CIKM, SIGIR Poster, ASONAM
2011:  ICDE; DASFAA; ASONAM; ADC; DEXA; SIGIR poster; EMNLP; AINA; CIKM
2010:  KDD; ACL; ICDM ; WWW; DASFAA; DEXA; DNIS; ICDKE; HPCC; ASONAM
2009:  VLDB; ICDE; ICDM; PAKDD; DEXA; APWeb; ASONAM
2008:  SIGMOD; VLDB; KDD; ICDM; DEXA; XANTEC; WWW Poster; Apweb; DASFAA; AReS; WAIM;

Seminar coordinator for Edinburgh Database group's weekly seminar, Feb. - Sept. 2006