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

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Assistant Professor

Room 1019
Ho Sin-Hang Engineering Building
Department of Computer Science and Engineering

Chinese University of Hong Kong

Sha Tin, New Territories, Hong Kong SAR

CHINA

Tel: +852-26098437

Fax: +852-26035024

Publications [DBLP entry]
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Dr. Tao is engaged in research of database systems. He is particularly interested in index structures and query algorithms on multidimensional data, and has published primarily on temporal databases, spatial databases, and privacy preservation. He received the Hong Kong young scientist award in 2002. He has served the program committees of most prestigious database conferences such as SIGMOD, VLDB, ICDE, and is currently an associate editor of ACM Transactions on Database Systems (TODS). He joined the Chinese University of Hong Kong in September 2006. Before that, he held positions at the Carnegie Mellon University and the City University of Hong Kong.
 

Associate editor of ACM Transactions on Database Systems (TODS) (since Jan 2008)
Field editor of Encyclopedia of GIS.

Selected program committee memberships (click here for the full list)
SIGMOD, 2007, 2008, 2009,
VLDB, 2005, 2009,
ICDE, 2005, 2007, 2008, 2009, 2010,
International Conference on Extending Database Technology (EDBT), 2008, 2009.

My pledges as a reviewer:

I will treat your work with respect.   I will spend enough time with your paper. I will not make any decision without a good understanding.   In case I decide to recommend rejection, I will do so on solid grounds. I do not reject papers based on subjective and vacuous statements such as "I don't like this idea".   I will write reviews in a courteous manner. I have seen harsh reviews by other people which heavily mention my publications, and thus, give people the feeling that I was the reviewer. I will never do anything like this.

Conference organization:
Workshop chair of VLDB 2009.
Program chair of DBRank 2009.
Demonstration program chair of SIGMOD 2010.

Recent tutorial:
Pei, J., Tao, Y., Han, J. Preference Queries from OLAP and Data Mining Perspective. ICDE, 2009. [slides]
 

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
 

CSC3170 Introduction to Database Systems: Spring 2007, 2008, Fall 2008.
CSC3190 Introduction to Discrete Mathematics and Algorithms: Fall 2006, 2007.

I will supervise at most 2 PhDs simultaneously to make sure each of them gets adequate training. Currently I can still take one more PhD.

Ongoing:
Cheng Sheng (PhD student since Sep. 2008)
 

Ling Ding (MPhil student since Sep. 2007)

Xiaobing Wu (MPhil student since Sep. 2007)

Sze Man Yuen (MPhil student since Sep. 2007)

Past:
Xiaokui Xiao (PhD defended in 2008, currently a post-doc at the Cornell University)
Jiexing Li (MPhil defended in 2008)