Recent News
- (7/3/2008) Launching Search@ICS: I am glad to our research
prototype has been launched on the ICS Homepage
that can support interactive, fuzzy search for ICS people and general pages at ICS.UCI.EDU.
- (4/1/2008) Launching PSearch: I am glad to release
the PSearch Prototype to support interactive, fuzzy search for UCI Directory.
- (3/31/2008) This quarter I am teaching CS122B
and CS224.
- (2/22/2008) New SIGMOD08 paper: The conference has accepted
our paper titled "Cost-Based Variable-Length-Gram Selection for String Collections to
Support Approximate Queries Efficiently", a joint work with Bin Wang and Xiaochun
Yang when they visited our place last fall. The paper solves several open,
important problems not addressed in our VLDB07 VGRAM paper.
- (2/1/2008) New Visitor: I am glad that Guoliang Li from
Tsinghua University is visiting my research team for about four months.
- (12/12/2007) Today I attended a local computer industry forum
about the computer cluster workforce in Orange County. There is
an excellent survey
on the needs of computer cluster workforce in the county. One interesting
finding is that the county is facing the challenge of not being able
to find enough workers in the IT industry. The survey also gives
us some thoughts on how we design our education curriculum to meet the
need of the industry.
- (12/2007) I am looking for a motivated BS/MS student for an
independent research project. Requirements: strong java
programming skills. Please contact me if you are interested.
- (10/2007) New paper on approximate string matching: Our
recent paper titled "Efficient Merging and Filtering Algorithms for
Approximate String Searches" by Chen Li, Jiaheng Lu, and Yiming Lu
will appear in ICDE 2008. We developed new algorithms and indexing
structures that can significantly improve the performance of
approximate string search.
- (10/2007) New NSF Grant: We received an NSF grant of $95K
for our proposal titled "SGER: Answering Approximate String Queries
Using Variable-Length Grams."
- (8/2007) Visitors: Bin Wang and Xiaochun Yang are visiting our
team again this summer. We will continue working on topics related to
approximate query answering.
- Archived news
Research and Students
My research interests are in the fields of database and information
systems, including data integration and sharing, data warehouses, data cleansing,
data privacy, and information management on the Web. The following are several database
projects I am working on.
Current Projects
Past Projects
Current students, postdocs, and visitors
- Ph.D student: Alex Behm
- Ph.D student: Shengyue Ji
- Ph.D student: Yiming Lu
- Ph.D student: Michal Shmueli-Scheuer
- Ph.D student: Rares Vernica
- Postdoc: Jiaheng Lu.
- Visitors: Bin Wang and Xiaochun Yang from Northeastern University, China.
Past students and visitors
- Liang Jin, MS in 2005, now at Microsoft.
- Jia Li, MS in 2005, now working in the bay area.
- Vassia Pavlaki, PhD student from NTUA, Greece. Visitor, Summer
2005 and April 2006.
- Houtan Shirani-Mehr, MS in 2006, now PhD student at USC.
- Chris Trezzo, Undergrad student (SURF-IT),
summer 2006.
- Bin Wang (PhD candidate) and Xiaochun Yang (professor), Northeastern
University, China. Visitors, summer 2006.
- Qi Zhong, MS in 2005, now at Microsoft.
Recent committee services: ICDE 2009 Demo Track, CIKM 2008, VLDB 2008, WWW 2008, ICDE 2008, KDD 2007, SIGMOD07, ICDT07, KDD06, CIKM06, CleanDB06
(Workshop cochair), SIGMOD06
Undergraduate Scholarship Program, IQIS06, ICDE06 Committee for
tutorial proposals, VLDB05 (IIS), SIGMOD05 Demo track, PODS05
Proceedings Chair, DASFAA05.
Grants, fellowships, awards
- ICS Ted & Janice Smith Faculty Seed Fund (December 2006).
- Google Research Award (September 2006, renewable for a 2nd year)
- Microsoft unrestricted research grant (April 2006)
- UCI Faculty Career Development Award (2005)
- Recipient of National Science Foundation CAREER Award
(No. IIS-0238586, 2003 - 2008, single PI).
- Senior investigator of National Science Foundation Award
No. 0331707: RESCUE (2003 -
2008).
- Stanford Graduate Fellowship, Stanford University, 1997 - 2001.
- Entrance exams to Tsinghua University waived (undergrad 1989, MS
1994).
Teaching
Some Recent Talks and Presentations (not up to date)
- Answering Approximate Queries Efficiently,
seminars at SRI and Yahoo!, August, 2006.
- Supporting Approximate String Matching, Talk at Google,
December, 2005.
- Selectivity Estimation for Fuzzy
String Predicates in Large Data Sets, Talk at VLDB 2005,
Trondheim, Norway, August 30 - September 2, 2005.
- Indexing Mixed Types for Approximate
Retrieval, Talk at VLDB 2005, Trondheim, Norway, August 30 -
September 2, 2005.
- Answering Queries with Fuzzy String Predicates. Seminar at
University of Washington, July 2005.
- Answering Queries with Fuzzy String Predicates. Seminar at UCSB, June 2005.
- Secure XML Publishing without Information
Leakage in the Presence of Data Inference, Talk at VLDB, Toronto,
Canada, August 29 - September 3, 2004.
- Seminars at Tsinghua University, Beijing,
China, August, 2004
- NNH: Improving Performance of
Nearest-Neighbor Searches Using Histograms , Talk at EDBT 2004,
Crete, Greece, March, 2004
