CSE PGs Awarded ACM VLDB 2014 Excellent Demonstration Award

Among nearly 200 global submissions and 42 final candidates, the demo system "gMission: a General Spatial Crowdsourcing Platform" by Zhao CHEN (PG), Rui FU (PG), Ziyuan ZHAO (PG), Zheng LIU (PG), Leihao XIA (PG), Prof Lei CHEN, Peng CHENG (PG), Dr Chen CAO (Post-doc), Dr Yongxin TONG (PG graduate) and Chen ZHANG (PG) was awarded the Excellent Demonstration Award in the 40th International Conference on Very Large Data Bases(VLDB) 2014 in Hangzhou, China.

PG students, Zhao CHEN, Peng CHENG, Rui MENG, Jieying SHE, Ting WU, Yue WANG, Chen ZHANG, Rui FU, Leihao XIA, Yexin LI, and Ziyuan ZHAO, together with Dr Chen CAO from Prof Lei CHEN's group attended VLDB and demonstrated gMission software to all the audience in VLDB. This is the first time that this award is awarded to a team from the Greater China region.

(front row, left to right) Jieying She, Yexin Li, Ting Wu, Rui Meng (back row, left to right) Yue Wang, Chen Zhang, Ziyuan Zhao, Leihao Xia, Peng Cheng, Rui Fu, Zhao Chen(first author), Chen Cao

(front row, left to right) Jieying She, Ting Wu, Rui Meng, Yexin Li (back row, left to right) Yue Wang, Leihao Xia, Ziyuan Zhao, Chen Zhang, Rui Fu, Zhao Chen(first author), Chen Cao, Peng Cheng

(from left to right) Prof Lei Chen, Prof H.V. Jagadish (Program Co-chair, VLDB'14), Ting Wu

(from left to right) Chen Cao, Prof M. Tamer Özsu (Associate Dean, Faculty of Mathematics, University of Waterloo)