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, data access methods, data outsourcing, etc.
  • Data Mining, stream classification
  • Semantic Database, RDF store, etc.
Recent Community Services (since 2008):
  • Associate Editor IEEE Transaction on Data Engineering, 2009-
  • Senior PC, SIGKDD 2010
  • PC, SIGMOD 2010
  • PC, Industry Track, VLDB 2010
  • PC, ICDE 2010
  • Workshop Chair, Cloud DB (Associated with CIKM 2009)
  • Workshop Chair, Mining Multi-source Data (Associated with ICDM 2009)
  • PC Chair, Demo Track, ICDE 2009
  • PC, ICDE 2009
  • Senior PC, ICDM 2009
  • Senior PC, SDM 2008
  • Senior PC, SIGKDD 2008
  • PC Chair, Demo Track, ICDM 2008
  • Sponsor Chair of SIGMOD 2008
  • PC, VLDB 2008
  • PC, ICDE 2008
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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