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

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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]
me in WWW, in Google scholar

Short bio
Dr. Tao is a Professor at the Department of Computer Science and Engineering, Chinese University of Hong Kong (CUHK). Before joining CUHK in 2006, he was a Visiting Scientist (postdoc) 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 2002 from the Hong Kong Institution of Science. He regularly serves the programming committees of SIGMOD, VLDB, ICDE, and is currently an associate editor of ACM Transactions on Database Systems (TODS).

Research interests
Algorithms and data structures on massive data (that need to be stored in external memory).

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

Selected program committee memberships (click here for the full list)
SIGMOD: 2007, 2008, 2009.
VLDB: 2005, 2009 (also workshop chair), 2010 (also member of the best paper committee).
ICDE: 2005, 2007, 2008, 2009, 2010.
KDD: 2010.

Demonstration program chair of SIGMOD 2010.

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 make people feel I was the reviewer. I will never do anything like this.

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.
 

CSC6210 Advanced Multidimensional Search.

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

I allow myself to supervise at most 2 PhDs simultaneously. So I will not take any more until one of my current students graduates or gets fired.

Ongoing
Cheng Sheng (PhD student since Sep. 2008)

Haifeng Wan (PhD student since Sep. 2009)

Graduated
Xiaokui Xiao (PhD defended in 2008, currently an Assistant Professor at the Nanyang Technological University, Singapore)

Jiexing Li (MPhil defended in 2008, then PhD student at the University of Wisconsin-Madison)

Ling Ding (MPhil defended in 2009, then PhD student at the University of Pennsylvania)

Xiaobing Wu (MPhil defended in 2009, first employment: DBS Solution Engineer, Teradata Beijing)

Sze Man Yuen (MPhil defended in 2009, first employment: Teaching Assistant, City University of Hong Kong)