Haixun Wang

Microsoft Research Asia
Email: haixunw @ microsoft . com
Tel: +86-10-58963289 or +1-914-902-0749

I joined Microsoft Research Asia in 2009. I was with IBM T. J. Watson Research Center from 2000 to 2009. I was Technical Assistant to Stuart Feldman (VP of Computer Science) from 2006 to 2007, and Technical Assistant to Mark Wegman (Head of Computer Science, IBM Fellow) from 2007 to 2009. I received the B.S. and M.S. degrees in Computer Science from Shanghai Jiao Tong University in 1994 and 1996, the Ph.D. degree in Computer Science from University of California, Los Angeles in June, 2000.

Research Interest:

Database language and system, Graph Data Management
Data Mining
Knowledge Base, Semantic Database, RDF store

Recent Community Services (since 2008):

Associate Editor IEEE Transaction on Data Engineering (TKDE), 2009-
Associate Editor Journal of Computer Science and Engineering (JCST), 2009-
PC co-chair, ICMLA 2011
PC co-chair, WAIM 2011
PC co-chair, ICDE 2009 demo track
PC co-chair, ICDM 2008 demo track
SDM 2011 Senior PC, ICDE 2011 PC
SIGMOD 2010 PC, VLDB 2010 Industrial track PC, ICDE 2010 PC, SIGKDD 2009 Senior PC
ICDE 2009 PC, ICDM 2009 Senior PC, SDM 2008 Senior PC, VLDB 2008 PC, ICDE 2008 PC
Workshop Chair, Cloud DB (Associated with CIKM 2009)
Workshop Chair, Mining Multi-source Data (Associated with ICDM 2009, 2010)

Awards:

Best Student Paper Runner-Up, Inverse Time Dependency in Convex Regularized Learning, in the 9th International Conference on Data Mining (ICDM), 2009
Best Paper, Modeling and Querying E-Commerce Data in Hybrid Relational-XML DBMSs, in the 27th International Conference on Conceptual Modeling (ER), 2008

Recent Talks:

The Big Data Challenge (NDBC 2009 Invited Talk, FDM 2009 Invited Talk)
Relalation DBMS in Cloud: an Eventual Consistency Approach (CUHK 2009 Seminar Talk)
How to write papers (database research) (NDBC 2009 Invited Talk, IBM CRL 2008 Invited Talk)

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