POSTGRADUATE SUPERVISEES

"The world is yours, as well as ours, but in the last analysis, it is yours." (Mao Tse Tung)

The students are listed in the reverse chronological order of the completion date or starting date of their study.

· There are eight PhD graduates now working in universities of different countries (Hong Kong, China, Singapore, USA).

· There are two PhD graduates obtaining Hong Kong Young Scientist awards in 2010 and 2015.

PhD Supervisees:

· HAO, Xiaotian (2014 – 2021):

· Aapative Information Retrieval Technqiues For the Applications on Tweets and Tropical Moisture Cases

· CHENG, Ji (2014 – 2020):

· Thesis Title: Mining Order-Preserving Submatrices Under Uncertainty: A Possible-World Approach

· VOSECKY, Jan (2011 – 2015):

· PhD Thesis: INCORPORATING SEMANTIC AWARENESS AND PERSONALIZATION INTO MICROBLOG SEARCH

· PhD Graduate in 2015, The Hong Kong University of Science and Technology. 

· Working in industries in Shanghai, China now.

· ZHAO, Zhou (2010 – 2015):

· PhD Thesis: UNCERTAIN DATA PROCESSING AND APPLICATIONS

· PhD Graduate in 2015, The Hong Kong University of Science and Technology. 

· Working in Zhejiang University, China now.

· JIANG, DI (2009 – 2014):

· PhD Thesis: PROBABILSTIC TOPIC MODELING IN WEB SEARCH

· PhD Graduate in 2014, The Hong Kong University of Science and Technology. 

· Working in Baidu, China now.

· YAN, Da (2009 – 2014):

· PhD Thesis: QUERY PROCESSING OVER LARGE SPATIAL NETWORKS

· PhD Graduate in 2014, The Hong Kong University of Science and Technology. (2015 Hong Kong Young Scientist Award based on his PhD performance. He is my second PhD graduate who gets this prestigious award.)

· Working in University of Alabama at Birmingham, USA now.

· FANG, Qiong (2007– 2012):

· PhD Thesis: EFFECTIVE DISCOVERY OF ORDER-PERSERVING SUBMATRICS

· PhD Graduate in 2012, The Hong Kong University of Science and Technology. 

· Working in South China University of Technology, China now.

· LEUNG, Wai Ting Kenneth (2006 – 2010, Co-supervised with Prof Dik Lee):

· PhD Thesis: A FRAMEWORK FOR PERSONALISING WEB SEARCH WITH MULTI-FACETED USER PROFILES

· PhD Graduate in 2010, The Hong Kong University of Science and Technology. 

· Working in Hong Kong University of Science and Technology now.

· LU, An (2003 – 2009):

· PhD Thesis: PROCESSING AND MANAGING VAGUE DATA

· PhD Graduate in 2009, The Hong Kong University of Science and Technology. 

· Working in Dongguan University of Technology, China now.

· CHENG, Sheung Chak James (2003-2008):

· PhD Thesis: QUERY PROCESSING ON GRAPH DATABASES

· PhD Graduate in 2008, The Hong Kong University of Science and Technology. (2010 Hong Kong Young Scientist Award based on his PhD performance.)

· Working in Chinese University of Hong Kong now.

· KE, Yiping (2003 – 2007):

· PhD Thesis: EFFICIENT CORRELATED PATTERN DISCOVERY IN DATABASES

· PhD Graduate in 2007, The Hong Kong University of Science and Technology. 

· Working in Nanyang Technological University, Singapore now.

· LAU, Ho Lam (2001 – 2007):

· PhD Thesis: AN ADAPTIVE FRAMEWORK FOR SEARCHING XML DOCUMENTS

· PhD Graduate in 2007, The Hong Kong University of Science and Technology.

· Working in City University of Hong Kong now. 

MPhil Supervisees:

· CHENG, Weikeng (2014 – now):

· WANG, Xingyu (2014 – now):

· MPhil thesis: STUDY OF TEAM FORMATION PROBLEM FROM SINGLE TO PARALLEL PERSPECTIVE

· MPhil Graduate in 2016, The Hong Kong University of Science and Technology.

· Working in industries in China now.

· XING, Kai (2012 – 2014):

· MPhil thesis: TOWARDS A FRAMEWORK OF APP DEVELOPER INSPECTION

· MPhil Graduate in 2014, The Hong Kong University of Science and Technology.

· Working in industries in China now.

· SONG, Yuanfeng (2010 – 2012):

· MPhil thesis: FP-RANK: AN EFFECTIVE RANKING APPROACH BASED ON FREQUENT PATTERNANALYSIS

· MPhil Graduate in 2012, The Hong Kong University of Science and Technology.

· Working in industries in China now. 

· DENG, Lin (2003 – 2006):

· MPhil thesis: MINING USER PREFERENCE USING SPY VOTING FOR SEARCH ENGINE PERSONALIZATION

· MPhil Graduate in 2006, The Hong Kong University of Science and Technology.

· Working in financial sector in Hong Kong now. 

· TAN, Qingzhao (2002 – 2004, Co-supervised with Prof Dik Lee):

· MPhil thesis: An Effective Co-training Framework for Adapting Search Engine Rankers

· MPhil Graduate in 2004, The Hong Kong University of Science and Technology. 

· PhD Graduate in Pennsylvania State University. Working in industries in the US now.

· LAM Wai Yeung (2002 – 2003):

· MPhil thesis: XCQ: A Framework for Querying Compressed XML Data

· MPhil Graduate in 2003, The Hong Kong University of Science and Technology.

· Working in industries in Hong Kong now.