Xiaofang Zhou

Professor Xiaofang Zhou

School of Information Technology and Electrical Engineering
The University of Queensland, Brisbane QLD 4072 AUSTRALIA

Office:	Room 629, Building 78, St Lucia Campus (map)
Phone:	(61-7) 33652989	Fax: (61-7) 33654999	Mobile: 0412135207
Email:	zxf@itee.uq.edu.au	URL: www.itee.uq.edu.au/~zxf

Assistant:	Kathleen Williamson (Room 630, Ph:33651649, Fax:33653248, Email:bigk@itee.uq.edu.au)
	Chanelle Zou (Room 638, Ph:33658325, Fax:33653248, Email:chanelle@itee.uq.edu.au)

Professor Xiaofang Zhou is a Professor of Computer Science at the University of Queensland. He is the Head of the Data and Knowledge Engineering Research Group (DKE). He is also the Convenor of Australian Researh Council (ARC) Research Network in Enterprise Information Infrastructure (EII), and a Chief Investigator of ARC Centre of Excellence in Bioinformatics. Professor Zhou received his BSc and MSc degrees in Computer Science from Nanjing University in 1984 and 1987 respectively, and PhD in Computer Science from the University of Queensland in 1994. From 1994 to 1999, he worked as a Senior Research Scientist in CSIRO, leading its Spatial Information Systems group. His research focuses on finding effective and efficient solutions to managing, integrating and analysing very large amount of complex data for business and scientific applications. His research interests include spatial and multimedia databases, data quality, high performance query processing, Web information systems and bioinformatics.

Some Recent Publications more publications

"Instant Advertising in Mobile Peer-to-Peer Networks", Z. Chen, H. T. Shen, Q. Xu and X. Zhou, ICDE 2009, April 2009, Shanghai, China.
"Bounded Coordinate System Indexing for Real-time Video Clip Search", Z. Huang, H. T. Shen, J. Shao, X. Zhou and B. Cui, ACM Transactions on Information Systems (accepted in August 2008)
"Effective and Efficient Query Processing for Video Subsequence Identification", H. T. Shen, J. Shao, Z. Huang and X. Zhou, IEEE Transactions on Knowledge and Data Engineering (accepted in July 2008)
"Instance Optimal Query Processing in Spatial Networks", K. Deng, X. Zhou, H. T. Shen, S. Sadiq and X. Li, The VLDB Journal (accepted August 2008)
"Locality Condensation: A New Dimensionality Reduction Method for Image Retrieval", Z. Huang, H. T. Shen, J. Shao, S. Rueger and X. Zhou, ACM Multimedia 2008, Vancouver, Canada.
"Distribution-based Similarity Measures for Multi-dimensional Point Set Retrieval Applications", J. Shao, Z. Huang, H. T. Shen, J. Shen and X. Zhou, ACM Multimedia 2008, Vancouver, Canada.
"Data Quality in Web Information Systems", X. Zhou, S. Sadiq and K. Deng, WISE 2008, Ackland, New Zealand (Keynote Speech).
"Discovery of Convoys in Trajectory Databases", H. Jeung, M. L. Yiu, X. Zhou, C. S. Jensen and H. T. Shen, VLDB 2008, Ackland, New Zealand.
"Speed Up Interactive Image Retrieval", H. T. Shen, S. Jiang, K.-L. Tan, Z. Huang and X. Zhou,The VLDB Journal (accepted in March 2008).
"A Hybrid Prediction Model for Moving Objects", H. Jeung, Q. Liu, H. T. Shen, X. Zhou, ICDE 2008.
"Batch Nearest Neighbor Search for Video Retrieval", J. Shao, Z. Huang, H. T. Shen, X. Zhou, E.-P. Lim and Y. Li, in IEEE Transactions on Multimedia, 10(3):409-420, 2008.
"Localized Co-occurrence Model for Fast Approximate Search in Structure Databases", Z. Huang, H. T. Shen and X. Zhou, in IEEE Transactions on Knowledge and Data Engineering, 20(4):519-531, 2008.
"SPARK: Top-k Keyword Query in Relational Databases", Y. Luo, X. Lin, W. Wang and X. Zhou, SIGMOD 2007, Beijing, China.
"A Multi-resolution Surface Distribution Model for k-NN Query Processing", K. Deng, X. Zhou, H. T. Shen, Q. Liu, K. Xu and X. Lin, in The VLDB Journal, 17(5):1101-1119, 2008.
"An Adaptive and Dynamic Dimensionality Reduction Method for High-dimensional Indexing", H. T. Shen, X. Zhou and A. Zhou, in The VLDB Journal, 16(2): 219-234, 2007.
"Multi-source Skyline Query Processing in Road Networks", K. Deng, X. Zhou and H. T. Shen, ICDE 2007.
"A Multiresolution Terrain Model for Efficient Visualization Query Processing", K. Xu, X. Zhou, X. Lin, H. T. Shen and K. Deng, in IEEE Transactions on Data and Knowledge Engineering, 18(10):1382-1396, October 2006.
"Summarizing Level-Two Topological Relations in Large Spatial Datasets", X. Lin, Q. Liu, Y. Yuan, X. Zhou and H. Lu, in ACM Transactions on Database Systems, 31(2):584-630, 2006
"Approximate Processing of Massive Continuous Quantile Queries over High Speed Data Streams", X. Lin, J. Xu, Q. Zhang, H. Lu, J. Yu, X. Zhou and Y. Yuan, in IEEE Transactions on Data and Knowledge Engineering, 18(5):683-698, May 2006.
"Surface kNN Query Processing", K. Deng, X. Zhou, H. T. Shen, K. Xu and X. Lin, ICDE 2006, Atlanta, USA.
"Towards Effective Indexing for Large Video Sequence Data", H. T. Shen, B. C. Ooi, X. Zhou and Z. Huang, SIGMOD 2005, Baltimore, USA.
"Direct Mesh: a Multiresolution Approach to Terrain Visualization", K. Xu, X. Zhou and X. Lin, ICDE 2004, Boston, USA.
"Multiscale Histograms: Summarizing Topological Relations in Large Spatial Datasets", X. Lin, Q. Liu, Y. Yuan and X. Zhou, VLDB 2003, Berlin, Germany.

Current Grants: more grants and research projects

[ARC Discovery Project $340K] Analyzing Uncertain Data: Probabilistic Approaches, 2009-2011.
[ARC Linkage Project $360K] Enhancement, Integration and Access Services for Smarter, Collaborative and Adaptive Whole-of-Water-Cycle Management, 2008 - 2010.
[CSIRO Flagship Program $189K] Query Feedback Based Integration of Distributed Scientific Data Sources, 2008 - 2009.
[ARC Centre $3.3M] ARC Centre of Excellence in Bioinformatics (ACB), 2008-2010 (extension and upgrade to ARC Centre for Bioinformatics).
[ARC Discovery Project $210K] Efficient Similarity Query Processing in High Dimensional Databases, 2006-2008.
[ARC Discovery Project $310K] Computinh Order Statistics over Data Streams, 2006-2008.
[ARC Research Network $3.2M] ARC Research Network in Enterprise Information Infrastructure (EII), 2004-2009.

Some Professional Activties: more conferences

[PC Chair] The 14th International Conference on Database Systems for Advanced Applications (DASFAA 2009), April 2009, Brisbane, Australia.
[Editorial Board Member] Encyclopedia of Database Systems, Springer (scheduled for 2008 publication).
[PC Member] The 35th International Conference on Very Large Databases (VLDB 2009), 24-28 August 2009, Lyons, France.
[PC Member] The 18th International World Wide Web Conference (WWW 2009), 20-24 April 2009, Madrid, Spaine.
[PC Member] The 29th ACM SIGMOD International Conference on Management of Data (SIGMOD 2009), June 2009, Rhode Island, USA.
[Vice PC Chair] The 25th International Conference on Data Engineering (ICDE 2009), March 2009, Shanghai, China.
[Tutorial Chair and PC Member] The 34th International Conference on Very Large Databases (VLDB 2008), 24-30 August 2008, Auckland, New Zealand.
[PC Member] The 28th ACM SIGMOD International Conference on Management of Data (SIGMOD 2008), Vancouver, Canada.
[PC Member] The 17th International World Wide Web Conference (WWW 2008), 21-25 April 2008, Beijing, China.
[PC Member] The 27th ACM SIGMOD International Conference on Management of Data (SIGMOD 2007), June 2007, Beijing, China.
[PC Member] The 24th International Conference on Data Engineering (ICDE 2007), April 17-20, 2007, Istanbul, Turkey.
[Workshop Chair and PC Member] The 23rd International Conference on Data Engineering (ICDE 2006), April 3-7, 2006, Atlanta, USA.
[PC Member] The15th International Conference on World Wide Web (WWW 2006), May 23-26, 2006, Edinburgh, UK.
[PC Member] The 10th International Conference on Extending DataBase Technology (EDBT 2006), 27-31 March, 2006, Munich, Germany.
[PC Member] The 26th IEEE International Conference on Distributed Computing Systems (ICDCS 2006), July 4-7, 2006, Lisboan, Portugal.
[Demo Chair and PC Member] The 22nd International Conference on Data Engineering (ICDE 2005), April 5-8, 2005, Tokyo, Japan.