I am currently an Assistant Professor in the Department of Computer Science at Hong Kong Baptist University. I earned a Ph.D. in computer science from Nanyang Technological University, followed by a postdoctoral stint at National University of Singapore. I am a recipient of the 2021 VLBD Best Research Paper Award and the 2022 SIGMOD Research Highlight Award. Broadly speaking, my research aims to develop efficient algorithms and systems for large-scale data management and analysis. I am also a member of Database Research Group at HKBU.

I am looking for Ph.D. students, research assistants, and visiting students. Please drop me an email, if you are interested.

Research Interests

  • Databases and data management: graph query processing, similarity search
  • The Web and information retrieval: search and ranking, recommendation, web mining
  • Data mining and machine learning: social network analysis, graph representation learning

Selected Honors

Academic Services

  • Program committee member for the following conferences/workshops: KDD 2023, WWW 2023, WSDM 2023, WWW 2022, KDD 2022, ECML-PKDD 2022.
  • Invited reviewer for the following journals: TKDE, VLDBJ.
  • Subreviewer or External reviewer for VLDB 2023, CIKM 2022, TheWebConf 2021, ICDM 2021, ICDE 2020, VLDB 2020, KDD 2019, IJCAI 2019, CIKM 2019.

Invited Talks

Teaching