• Big data management
• Web information search
• Graph databases
• Data mining
• Sensor networks and IoT
• Stochastic analysis

1. A Partition-Based Approach to Web Hyperlink Analysis
   W. Yu, X. Lin, and W. Zhang, and J. McCann
   The International Journal on Very Large Data Bases (VLDB Journal). Accepted, To Appear in 2016.
   (accepted version)
2. Scaling Random Walk with Restart on Large-Scale Networks
   W. Yu, and J. McCann
   IEEE Transactions on Knowledge and Data Engineering (IEEE TKDE). Accepted, To Appear in 2016.
   (accepted version)
3. Efficient Partial-Pairs SimRank Search on Large Graphs
   W. Yu, and J. McCann
   The 41st International Conference on Very Large Data Base (VLDB '15). Hawaii, USA, pp. 569-580, 2015.
   
4. High Quality Graph-Based Similarity Search
   W. Yu, and J. McCann
   The 38th ACM SIGIR International Conference (ACM SIGIR '15). Santiago, Chile, pp. 83-93, 2015.
   
5. Fast All-Pairs SimRank Assessment on Large Graphs and BipartiteDomains
   W. Yu, X. Lin, W. Zhang, and J. McCann
   IEEE Transactions on Knowledge andData Engineering (IEEE TKDE), 27(7): 1810-1823, 2015.
   
6. Co-Simmate: Quick Retrieving All Pairwise Co-Simrank Scores
   W. Yu, and J. McCann
   The 53rd Annual Meeting of the Association for Computational Linguistics. (ACL '15). Beijing, China, pp. 327-334, 2015.
   
7. Gauging Correct Relative Ranking on Similarity Search
   W. Yu, and J. McCann
   The 24th ACM International Conference on Information and Knowledge Management (ACM CIKM '15). Melbourne, Australia, 2015
   
8. Effectively Positioning Water Loss Event in Smart Water Networks
   W. Yu, and J. McCann
   The 2nd International Electronic Conference on Sensors and Applications (IECSA '15). pp.1-10, 2015
   ** The Best Paper Award **
9. Bursty Event Detection from Microblog: A Distributed and Incremental Approach
   J. Li, J. Wen, Z. Tai, R. Zhang, and W. Yu
   Concurrency Computation: Practice and Experience. 2015
   
10. More is Simpler: Effectively and Efficiently Assessing Node-Pair Similarities Based on Hyperlinks.
    W. Yu, X. Lin, W. Zhang, L. Chang, J Pei.
    The 40th International Conference on Very Large Data Base (VLDB '14), Hangzhou, China, pp. 13-24, 2014
    
11. Fast Incremental SimRank on Link-Evolving Graphs.
    W. Yu, X. Lin, and W. Zhang.
    The 30th IEEE International Conference on Data Engineering (IEEE ICDE '14), Chicago, USA, pp. 304-315, 2014
    
12. Sig-SR: SimRank Search over Singular Graphs
    W. Yu, and J. McCann
    The 37th ACM SIGIR International Conference (ACM SIGIR '14), Brisbane, Australia, pp. 859-863, 2014
    
13. Efficient Node-to-Node Relevance Assessment Based on Hyperlinks
    W. Yu
    PhD Thesis, The University of New South Wales, Australia, 2014.
    
14. Efficient Processing Node Proximity via Random Walk with Restart
    B. Lv, W. Yu, L. Wang, J. McCann
    The 16th Asia-Pacific Web Conference. (APWeb '14), Changsha, China, pp. 542-549, 2014
    
15. NSLPA: A Node Similarity Based Label Propagation Algorithm for Real-Time Community Detection
    Q. Song, B. Li, W. Yu, J. Li, and B. Shi
    The 7th IEEE/ACM International Conference on Utility and Cloud Computing. (UCC '14), pp.896-901, 2014
    
16. Opinion Mining and Sentiment Analysis in Social Networks: A Retweeting Structure-Aware Approach
    L. Lin, J. Li, R. Zhang, W. Yu, and C. Sun
    The 6th IEEE/ACM International Conference on Utility and Cloud Computing. (UCC '13), pp.890-895, 2013
    
    
17. Towards Efficient SimRank Computation on Large Networks.
    W. Yu, X. Lin, and W. Zhang.
    The 29th IEEE International Conference on Data Engineering (IEEE ICDE '13), Brisbane, Australia, pp. 601-612, 2013.
    ** One of the Best Papers **
18. IRWR: Incremental Random Walk with Restart.
    W. Yu, and X. Lin.
    The 36th ACM SIGIR International Conference (ACM SIGIR '13), Dublin, Ireland, pp. 1017-1021, 2013
    
19. On Anomalous Hotspot Discovery in Graph Streams
    W. Yu, C. Aggarwal, S. Ma, and H. Wang
    The 13th IEEE International Conference on Data Mining (IEEE ICDM '13), Texas, USA, pp.1271-1276, 2013
    
20. Kinect-Like Depth Data Compression
    J. Fu, D. Miao, W. Yu, S. Wang, Y. Lu, S. Li
    IEEE Transactions on Multimedia (IEEE TMM), 15(6): 1340-1352, 2013
    
21. SimFusion+: Extending SimFusion Towards Efficient Estimation on Large and Dynamic Networks.
    W. Yu, X. Lin, W. Zhang, Y. Zhang, and J. Le.
    The 35th ACM SIGIR International Conference (ACM SIGIR '12), Portland, USA, pp. 365-374, 2012.
    
22. A Space and Time Efficient Algorithm for SimRank Computation.
    W. Yu, W. Zhang, X. Lin, Q. Zhang, and J. Le.
    World Wide Web Journal (WWW Journal), 15(3):327-353, 2012.
    
23. On the Efficiency of Estimating Penetrating Rank on Large Graphs.
    W. Yu, J. Le, X. Lin, and W. Zhang.
    The 24th International Conference on Scientific and Statistical Database Management (SSDBM '12), Crete, Greece, pp. 231-249, 2012.
    
24. ASAP: Towards Accurate, Stable and Accelerative Penetrating-Rank Estimation on Large Graphs.
    X. Li, W. Yu, J. Le, B. Yang.
    The 12th International Conference on Web-Age Information Management (WAIM'11), Wuhan, China, pp. 415-429, 2011. Springer LNCS.
    ** Best Student Paper Award **
25. Taming Computational Complexity: Efficient and Parallel SimRank Optimizations on Undirected Graphs.
    W. Yu, X. Lin, and J. Le.
    The 11th International Conference on Web-Age Information Management (WAIM '10), Sichuan, China, pp. 280-296, 2010. Springer LNCS.
    ** Best Paper Runner-up Award **
26. A Space and Time Efficient Algorithm for SimRank Computation.
    W. Yu, X. Lin, and J. Le.
    The 12th IEEE Asia-Pacific Web Conference (APWeb '10), Busan, Korea, pp. 164-170, 2010.
    ** Best Paper Award **

 

Refereed Journal Reviewer

• ACM Transactions on Knowledge Discovery from Data (ACM TKDD), 2014, 2015
• ACM Transactions on Database Systems (ACM TODS), 2014, 2015
• IEEE Transactions on Knowledge and Data Engineering (TKDE), 2013, 2014, 2015
• IEEE Transactions on Neural Networks and Learning Systems (IEEE TNNLS), 2014, 2015
• The VLDB Journal (VLDB J.), 2014, 2015
• World Wide Web Journal (WWW J.), 2013, 2014, 2015
• Data Mining and Knowledge Discovery (DMKD), 2014, 2015
• Information Systems (IS), 2012 - present
• International Journal of Software and Informatics (IJSI), 2013, 2014, 2015
• IETE Journal of Research, 2015
• Journal of Software (JoS), 2012 - present

Refereed Conference PC/Reviewer

• Australian Database Conference (ADC), 2014, 2015, 2016
• International Conference on Very Large Data Base (VLDB), 2013, 2014, 2015
• International Conference on Data Mining (ICDM), 2012, 2013, 2014
• ACM SIGMOD International Conference (SIGMOD), 2013, 2014
• Conference on Information and Knowledge Management (CIKM), 2013, 2014, 2015
• Database Systems for Advanced Applications (DASFAA), 2011, 2013, 2014
• International Conference on Extending Database Technology (EDBT), 2012, 2014, 2015
• Pacific-Asia Conference on Knowledge Discovery and Data Mining (PAKDD), 2014, 2015
• Data Warehousing and Knowledge Discovery (DaWak), 2012, 2013, 2015
• International Conference on Advances in Geographic Information Systems (SIGSPATIAL), 2012, 2014
• International Conference on Web-Age Information Management (WAIM), 2013 - present

Refereed Conference Volunteer

• ACM SIGIR International Conference (SIGIR), Dublin, Ireland, 2013
• International Asia-Pacific Web Conference (APWeb), Brisbane, Australia, 2013

Professional Memberships

• ACM Member, 2012-present

• IEEE Member, 2012-present