I am a Ph.D student of Computer Science and Engineering at University of New South Wales (UNSW, Australia). Currently, I am in the Database Research Group, supervised by Prof. Xuemin Lin. Meanwhile, I am also affiliated with Ph.D research program at National ICT Australia (NICTA). I received my B.Sc in Applied Mathematics in 2006, and my first Ph.D in Control Theory in 2010, both from Donghua University (DHU, China).

 

I started my teaching career as a Teaching Assistant in the Department of Applied Mathematics when I was a student at DHU in Jul. 2006. During 2007-2009, I worked as a Casual Lecturer in the Department of Electrical Engineering at Shanghai University of Engineering Science. Since 2009, after a one-year visiting scholar at UNSW, I began my second Ph.D in the School of Computer Science and Engineering, and served as a Teaching Assistant at UNSW. My teaching tasks include casual lecturing, tutoring, marking, and lab demonstrating, which covers a wide range of CS courses at both postgraduate and undergraduate levels. I also supervised /am supervising a number of undergraduate students for their projects and thesis, and got their works published in international conferences. One of their works also won the Best Student Paper Award. I am currently the ACM student member, IEEE student member, and reviewer of many prestigious CS conferences and journals.

 

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My major research areas are information retrieval and stochastic calculus.

• In information retrieval, my particular interests include web data management, graph databases, hyperlink analysis and social networks, and IR theory (complexity and scalability).
• Stochastic calculus is a branch of mathematics that allows a classic theory of integration to be defined for integrals of stochastic processes.
  It is widely used to model systems that behave randomly. In this area, I mainly focus on stochastic control and filtering theory, backward stochastic differential equation, and Itô calculus.

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• 2013 ICDE Oracle Travel Scholarship to give a tutorial on large-scale similarity search at Oracle Lab in Redwood Shores, California, USA.
• 2012 CiSRA Best Research Paper Award for my ICDE'13 paper "Towards Efficient SimRank Computation on Large Networks".
• 2011 Best Student Paper Award for our paper "ASAP: Towards Accurate, Stable and Accelerative Penetrating-Rank Estimation on Large Graphs", in WAIM'11. (I was the supervisor of the first author)
• 2010 Best Paper Award for my paper "A Space and Time Efficient Algorithm for SimRank Computation" in APWEB'10.
• 2010 Best Paper Runner-up Award for my paper "Taming Computational Complexity: Efficient and Parallel SimRank Optimizations on Undirected Graphs", in WAIM'10.
• 2010-2013 International Postgraduate Research Scholarship Award (IPRS), awarded by Australian Government.
• 2010-2013 National ICT Australia (NICTA) top-up Scholarship for exceptional Ph.D students to perform research.
• 2009-2010 CSC Joint Ph.D Student Program Scholarship as a visiting student at UNSW, awarded by China Scholarship Council (CSC).
• 2006 Integrated First-Class Scholarship for Top Postgraduate Student, Donghua University (Selection Ratio: 2/32).
• 2006 Honor of Shanghai Excellent Postgraduate based on Academic Merits (for top 1 student in our school), awarded by Shanghai Municipal Education Commission.
• 2006 "Zhiguang Qian" Scholarship Award for Outstanding Top-up Postgraduate based on Academic Merits (Selection Ratio: 1/32).
• 2005 Honor of National Excellent Undergraduate based on Academic Merits (for top 1 student in our school).
• 2002, 2003, 2004 Integrated First-Class Scholarship for Top Undergraduate Student, Donghua University (Selection Ratio: 3/72)
• 2002, 2003, 2004 "Zhiguang Qian" Scholarship Award for Outstanding Top-up Undergraduate Student based on Academic Merits (Selection Ratio: 3/72)