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)

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 Division at UQ, a Chief Investigator of Australian Research Council (ARC) Centre of Excellence in Bioinformatics, and a researcher in NICTA. He is the Convenor and Director of ARC Research Network in Enterprise Information Infrastructure (a major national research collaboration initiative in Australia), and the founding chair of ACM SIGSPATIAL Australian Chapter. Xiaofang received his BSc and MSc degrees in Computer Science from Nanjing University, China, and PhD in Computer Science from the University of Queensland. Before joining UQ in 1999, he worked as a researcher in Commonwealth Scientific and Industrial Research Organisation (CSIRO), leading its Spatial Information Systems group. His research focus is to find effective and efficient solutions for managing, integrating and analyzing very large amount of complex data for business, scientific and personal applications. He has been working in the area of spatial and multimedia databases, data quality, high performance query processing, Web information systems and bioinformatics, co-authored over 170 research papers with many published in top journals and conferences such as SIGMOD, VLDB , ICDE, ACM Multimedia, The VLDB Journal, ACM Transactions and IEEE Transactions. He was the Program Committee Chair of IFIP Conference on Visual Databases (VDB 2002), Australasian Database Conferences (ADC 2002 and 2003), International Conference on Web Information Systems Engineering (WISE 2004), Asia Pacific Web Conferences (APWeb 2003 and 2006), International Conference on Databases Systems for Advanced Applications (DASFAA 2009). He has been on the program committees of over 150 international conferences, including SIGMOD (2007, 08, 09), VLDB (2008, 09), ICDE (2005-07, 09-11) and WWW (2006, 08, 09). Currently he is an Associate Editor of The VLDB Journal, IEEE Transactions on Knowledge and Data Engineering, World Wide Web Journal and Springer's Web Information System Engineering book series. In the past he was an Associate Editor of Information Processing Letters and an area editor of Encyclopedia of Database Systems. Xiaofang is an Adjunct Professor of Renmin Univeristy of China.

Some Recent Publications more publications

"On Group Neartest Group Query Processing", K. Deng, S. Sadiq, X. Zhou, H. Xu, G. Fung and Y. Lu, IEEE Transactions on Knowledge and Data Engineering (accepted in July 2010).
"Practical Online Near-duplicate Subsequence Detection for Continuous Video Streams", Z. Huang, H. T. Shen, J. Shao, B. Cui and X. Zhou, IEEE Transactions on Multimedia (accpetde in April 2010).
"Mining Near-duplicate Graph for Cluster-based Re-ranking of Web Video Search Results", H. T. Shen, B. Hu, H. Cheng, Z. Huang and X. Zhou, ACM Transactions on Information Systems (accepted in Aptil 2010).
"Building the World from Views", X. Zhou and H. Koehler, WAIM 2010, Chengdu, China (Keynote Speech).
"Providing Built-in Keyword Search Capabilities in RDBMS", G. Li, J. Feng, X. Zhou and J. Wang, The VLDB Journal (accepted April 2010).
"Path Prediction and Predictive Range Querying in Road Network Databases", H. Jeung, M. L. Yiu, X. Zhou and C. S. Jensen, The VLDB Journal, 19(4):585-602, 2010.
"K-Nearest Neighbor Search for Fuzzy Objects", K. Zheng, P.-C. Fung and X. Zhou, SIGMOD 2010, June 2010, Indianapolis, USA.
"Sampling Dirty Data for Matching Attributes", H. Koehler, X. Zhou, S. Sadiq, Y. Shu and K. Taylor, SIGMOD 2010, June 2010, Indianapolis, USA.
"Searching Trajectories by Locations - An Efficiency Study", Z. Chen, H. T. Shen, X. Zhou, Y. Zheng, X. Xie, SIGMOD 2010, June 2010, Indianapolis, USA.
"Adaptive Subspace Symbolization for Content-based Video Search", X. M. Zhou, X. Zhou and L. Chen, IEEE Transactions on Knowledge and Data Engineering (accepted in July 2009).
"An Efficient Near-Duplicate Video Shot Detection Method Using Shot-Based Interest Points", X. M. Zhou, X. Zhou, L. Chen and A. Bouguettaya, N. Xiao and J. A. Taylor, IEEE Transactions on Multimedia, 11(5): 879-891. August 2009.
"Monitoring Path Nearest Neighbor in Road Networks", Z. Chen, H. T. Shen, X. Zhou, J. Yu, SIGMOD 2009, June 2009, Rhode Island, USA.
"Duplicate-insensitive Order Statistics Computation over Data Streams", Y. Zhang, X. Lin, M. Kitsuregawa, X. Zhou, J. Yu and Y. Yuan, IEEE Transactions on Knowledge and Data Engineering, 22(4): 493-507, 2010.
"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, 27 (3), 2009.
"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, 21(3):321-334, 2009.
"Instance Optimal Query Processing in Spatial Networks", K. Deng, X. Zhou, H. T. Shen, S. Sadiq and X. Li, The VLDB Journal, 18(3):675-693, 2009.
"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, Auckland, 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, Auckland, New Zealand.
"Speed Up Interactive Image Retrieval", H. T. Shen, S. Jiang, K.-L. Tan, Z. Huang and X. Zhou,The VLDB Journal, 18(1):329-344. 2009.
"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

[UQ Vice Chancellor's Strategic Fund $640K] Managing Data Quality in Next Generation Information Infrastructure, 2009-2013.
[Microsoft Research Asia Internet Services Award $23K] Mining Location Association Patterns Between Web Queries and Documents, 2009.
[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] Computing Order Statistics over Data Streams, 2006-2008.
[ARC Research Network $3.2M] ARC Research Network in Enterprise Information Infrastructure (EII), 2004-2009.

Some Professional Activities: more conferences

[PhD Symposium Co-Chair] The 20th International World Wide Web Conference (WWW 2011), 28 March - 1 April 2011, Hyderabad, India.
[PhD Program Co-Chair] The 36th International Conference on Very Large Databases (VLDB 2010), 13-17 Sept 2010, Singapore.
[General Chair] International Workshop on Location Based Social Networks (LBSN'09 and LBSN'10), in conjunction with The 17th/18th ACM SIGSPATIAL International Conference on Advances in Geographic Information Systems, 4-6 Nov, 2009, Seattle, USA.
[General Co-Chair] The 12th Asia Pacific Web Conference (APWeb 2010), to be held in 6-8 April 2010, Busan, Korea.
[PC Chair] The 14th International Conference on Database Systems for Advanced Applications (DASFAA 2009), April 2009, Brisbane, Australia.
[PC Member] The 26th International Conference on Data Engineering (ICDE 2010), April 2010, LA, USA.
[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, Spain.
[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, Lisbon, Portugal.
[Demo Chair and PC Member] The 22nd International Conference on Data Engineering (ICDE 2005), April 5-8, 2005, Tokyo, Japan.