Victor Junqiu WEI

Biography

Victor Junqiu WEI is currently working as a research assistant professor in the Department of Computer Science and Engineering (CSE), the Hong Kong University of Science and Technology (HKUST). He obtained his bachelor degree from Nanjing University and PhD degree from Department of Computer Science and Engineering, the Hong Kong University of Science and Technology, under supervision of Prof. Raymond Chi-Wing Wong. From March 2018 to May 2018, he was a visiting student of Prof. Hanan Samet and Prof. David Mount at University of Maryland in the US. He also has several years' working experience in the world-famous research labs in the AI industry including Baidu natural language processing (NLP) group, AI group of WeBank and Noah's Ark Lab of Huawei.

His research interests span spatial-temporal data management, graph data management, random sampling, deep neural networks and natural language processing. His vision is to boost data management and data mining applications with advanced data structures, machine learning and deep learning algorithms. He served as a program committee member of many top conferences such as ICDE, KDD, PAKDD, SSTD, COLING, NAACL, EMNLP and ACL, etc.