Yufei Tao Click my name to see what it means in Chinese

Click the picture for a full view	Professor I am on leave from the Chinese University of Hong Kong. Current address: Room 1427-1, Building N4 Division of Web Science and Technology KAIST Yuseong-gu, Daejeon Republic of Korea Tel: +82-42-350-4873 Email: taoyf@cse.cuhk.edu.hk Publications DBLP Google scholar

General

Short bio Yufei Tao is a Professor in the Department of Computer Science and Engineering, Chinese University of Hong Kong (CUHK). Before joining CUHK in 2006, he was a Visiting Scientist at the Carnegie Mellon University during 2002-2003, and an Assistant Professor at the City University of Hong Kong during 2003-2006. He received a Hong Kong Young Scientist Award in 2002 from the Hong Kong Institution of Science. He obtained his PhD degree from Hong Kong University of Science and Technology in 2002, proudly under the supervision of Prof. Dimitris Papadias. He is an associate editor of ACM Transactions on Database Systems (TODS), and of IEEE Transactions on Knowledge and Data Engineering (TKDE). He is/was a PC co-chair of International Conference on Data Engineering (ICDE) 2014, a PC co-chair of International Symposium on Spatial and Temporal Databases (SSTD) 2011, an area PC chair of ICDE 2011, a senior PC member of International Conference of Information and Knowledge (CIKM) 2010, 2011, 2012, and the PC chairs of the demonstration track in SIGMOD 2010 and the tutorial track in SIGMOD 2013. He also holds a position of Visiting Professor, under the World Class University (WCU) program of the Korean government, in the Division of Web Science and Technology, Korea Advanced Institute of Science and Technology (KAIST), Republic of Korea. Research interests Yufei has worked extensively on indexing and query optimization in spatial and temporal databases. His current research aims to leverage the theory of data structures and computational geometry to develop practical algorithms with non-trivial theoretical guarantees, particularly in dealing with massive datasets that do not fit in memory.

Professional services

Associate editorships ACM Transactions on Database Systems (TODS) (since Jan 2008). IEEE Transactions on Knowledge and Data Engineering (TKDE) (since Mar 2012). Selected program chairmanships (full list) PC co-chair of ICDE 2014. PC co-chair of SSTD 2011. Area PC chair of ICDE 2011. Senior PC members of CIKM 2010, 2011, 2012. Tutorial PC chair of SIGMOD 2013. Demonstration PC chair of SIGMOD 2010. Selected program committee memberships (full list) SIGMOD: 2007, 2008, 2009, 2012. VLDB: 2005, 2009, 2010, 2012, 2013, 2014. PODS: 2014. ICDE: 2005, 2007, 2008, 2009, 2010, 2011 (area chair), 2012, 2013, 2014 (PC co-chair). KDD: 2010, 2011, 2012, 2013. WWW: 2013. Recipient of the outstanding reviewer award of KDD 2012.

General research fund

GRF 4164/12 Query Processing on Data Organized with Tags. GRF 4165/11 Data Retrieval Techniques on Spatial Networks. GRF 4166/10 Spatial Keyword Search. GRF 4169/09 Representative Search: Modeling, Algorithms, and Prototypes. GRF 4173/08 Data Anonymization in the Presence of Arbitrary Updates. GRF 4161/07 Personalized Privacy Preserving Data Publication. GRF 1202/06 Query Processing on Historical Uncertain Spatiotemporal Data. GRF 1163/04 Approximate Aggregate Processing in Spatio-temporal Databases.

Teaching

Current: WST540 Web Search and Text Analysis. Representative past courses at CUHK BMEG3120 Database and Security for Biomedical Engineering. CSCI2100 Data Structures. CSCI5020 External Memory Data Structures. CMSC5724 Data Mining and Knowledge Discovery. At KAIST WST501 Fundamentals of Searching Web-scale Datasets.

PhD supervising

I supervise at most 2 PhDs simultaneously. Currently there is an opening. Applications can be sent in by email, and are accepted until the position is filled. Each application must include a detailed transcript (of the applicant's undergraduate study) and a CV that lists the applicant's awards (since high school) and publications. Applicants with strong background in theoretical algorithms are preferred. The accepted student is expected to research on both database systems and theory. Ongoing Xiaocheng Hu (since Sep 2011) Graduated Dr. Cheng Sheng (PhD 2012, now at Google Switzerland) Prof. Xiaokui Xiao (PhD 2008, now Assistant Professor at the Nanyang Technological Univ., Singapore)