About me

I am an Assistant Professor working with the School of Computer Science and Technology at Shandong University. I received my Ph.D. degree from the Computer Science Department at Stony Brook University, SUNY, where I worked in the Data Management and Biomedical Data Analytics Lab(BMIDB) under the supervision of Professor Fusheng Wang. I received my M.S. in Computer Science from Emory University and my B.E. in Software Engineering from Xi’an Jiaotong University. A full version of my CV can be found here.

My research interests lie in Big Data, Spatial Data Management Systems, Spatial Approximate Query Processing, and Geographic Information Systems (GIS). I am looking for self-motivated Master’s students. If you are interested in playing with big spatial data at a billion, even trillion scales, please drop me an email with your resume attached.

Education

  • Ph.D. in Computer Science, The State University of New York (SUNY) at Stony Brook, 2021
  • M.S. in Computer Science, Emory University, 2014
  • B.E. in Software Engineering, Xi’an Jiaotong University, 2012

Research Projects

  • 3DPro: Querying Complex 3D Data with Progressive Compression and Refinement
  • GLINT: GPU-based Real-time Contact Tracing at Scale
  • IDEAL: a Vector-Raster Hybrid Model for Efficient Spatial Queries over Complex Polygons
  • LSbM-tree: Re-enabling Buffer Caching in Data Management for Mixed Reads and Writes
  • BMIDB: Scalable Data Management for Big Medical Imaging Data
  • PAIS: Large Scale Spatial Data Management for Pathology Imaging

Selected Publications

Work Experience

  • 2022.04-present: Assistant Professor at Shandong University, Qingdao, China
  • 2021.12-2022.04: Algorithm Engineer at Alibaba Inc., Beijing, China
  • 2018.06-2019.07: Algorithm Engineer at Huawei Technologies Co., Ltd., Shenzhen, Guangdong, China
  • 2015.05-2015.08: Software Engineer at Alibaba Inc., Seattle, WA, USA
  • 2014.05-2014.08: Software Engineer at Pitney Bowes Inc., Shelton, CT, USA

Teaching

  • SDU 01332230: Database Systems, Lecturer, Fall 2023
  • SDU 0470043: Big Data Management and Analysis, Lecturer, Spring 2023, Spring 2024
  • SDU 013317502: Advanced Programming Language, Lecturer, Spring 2023
  • SDU 01231460: Data Structure and Database Technology, Lecturer, Fall 2022, Fall 2023
  • SBU CSE 532: Theory of Database Systems, Teaching Assistant, Spring 2020
  • SBU CSE 537: Artificial Intelligence, Teaching Assistant, Fall 2019
  • OSU CSE 2111: Modeling and Problem Solving with Spreadsheets and Databases, Teaching Assistant, Fall 2015, Fall 2017
  • OSU CSE 5339: Intermediate Studies in Parallel Computing, Teaching Assistant, Spring 2015

Academic Services

  • PC chair
    • VLDB DMAH 2022
  • PC member
    • SIGSPATIAL 2022,2023
    • VLDB DMAH 2021
    • APWEB/WAIM 2022,2023
  • External-reviewer
    • ACM SIGSPATIAL 2019, 2020, 2021
    • ACM SIGMOD 2021, 2022, 2023, 2024
    • IEEE Big Data 2019
  • Manuscript reviewer
    • ACM Transactions on Database Systems (TODS)
    • ACM Transactions on Spatial Algorithms and Systems (TSAS)
    • Springer Distributed and Parallel Databases (DAPD)
    • Geo-spatial Information Science

Invited Talks

  • 2022.09, Spatial Data Management for Medicine and Healthcare, VLDB DMAH workshop keynote
  • 2022.06, Spatial Big Data Management and Beyond, Shandong University IRC
  • 2021.11, The data privacy concerns in big spatial data processing, Zhejiang University
  • 2021.10, Efficient Large-Scale Multi-Dimensional Spatial Data Processing, Beihang University