Professional Activities

Professor Xiaofang Zhou has been on the program committees of numerous international conferences, often as a Senior PC member, including SIGMOD, VLDB, ICDE, EDBT, WWW, ACM Multimedia, CIKM, ICDM, PAKDD, ICDCS, IJCAI, AAAI and SIGKDD.  He was the Convenor and Director of the ARC Research Network in Enterprise Information Infrastructure (2004-2011, a major national research collaboration initiative in Australia), Research Director of the ARC Training Centre for Information Resilience (2020), and a Chief Investigator for the ARC Centre of Excellence in Bioinformatics (2003 - 2010) and Center for Energy Data Innovation (2018 - 2023). Currently, he is an Associate Editor of The World Wide Web Journal and Springer's Encyclopedia of Database Systems. He was the Chair of IEEE Technical Committee on Data Engineering (2015 - 2018) and a member of IEEE Fellow Evaluation Committee (2018, 2021, 2022). He was the founding chair of ACM SIGSPATIAL Australian Chapter (2010-2011). He has been on the Steering Committees of ICDE, DASFAA (Vice Chair 2019-2021), WISE, APWeb (Chair, 2010 - 2018), Australasian Database Conferences (Chair, 2020-2021) and BigComp conferences, and a member of the PVLDB Advisory Board (2019-2021). In the past, he was an Associate Editor of The VLDB Journal (2008-2015), IEEE Data Engineering Bulletin, Information Processing Letters, IEEE Transactions on Knowledge and Data Engineering (2009 - 2015), IEEE Transactions on Cloud Computing (2013-2019), Distributed and Parallel Databases (2015-2020), Knowledge and Information Systems (2017-2021). 

From 2006 to 2020, he was a Professor of Computer Science at The University of Queensland, leading the Data and Knowledge Engineering (DKE) research group and Data Science Discipline at UQ. Under his leadership, UQ DKE/Data Science discipline received 5 out of 5 ranking in the Australian Research Council's research quality assessment for three consecutive rounds (ERA 2012, 2015, 2018). Before joining UQ in 1999, he worked as a Senior Research Scientist in the Commonwealth Scientific and Industrial Research Organisation (CSIRO) and was the leader of its Spatial Information Systems group. He was a Lecturer in Computer Science at Nanjing University (1987 - 1991) and held visiting positions at The National University of Singapore (2002 and 2018) and Nanyang Technological University (2006).  Xiaofang received his BSc and MSc degrees in Computer Science from Nanjing University in 1984 and 1987 respectively, and PhD in Computer Science from UQ in 1994.

Awards

• DASFAA Outstanding Contributions Award, 2021

• Hongjun Lu WAIM Outstanding Contribution Award, 2016

Some Major Activities 

• Member, The SIGMOD Jim Gray Doctoral Dissertation Award Committee (2023, 2024)

• Chair, ACM SIGSpatial China New Star Award Committee (2021) 

• Member, VLDB Endowment Awards Committee (since 2021, Chair since 2024 )

• Member, PVLDB Advisory Committee (2018 - 2021)

• Member, IEEE Fellow Evaluation Committee (2018, 2021, 2022) 

• Tutorial Chair, EDBT 2023

• Panel Chair, PVDLB 2023

• Panel Chair, SIGMOD 2022

• Associate Editor, PVLDB 2022

• Tutorial Chair, SIGMOD 2021

• Program Committee Chair, VLDB 2020, and Editor-in-Chief, PVLDB Volume 13

• Program Committee Chair, ACM CIKM 2016

• General Chair, ACM Multimedia Conference (MM 2015)

• Program Committee Chair, IEEE ICDE 2013

• Chair of IEEE Technical Committee on Data Engineering (TCDE) (2015 - 2018) (http://tab.computer.org/tcde/) and Member, TCDE Executive Committee (2013 - )

Steering Committee Member 

• International Conferences on Database Systems for Advanced Applications (2013-2021) 

• Asia Pacific Web Conferences (since 2000, Chair for 2000 - 2009) 

• Web Information Systems Engineering Society (since 2000) 

• Australasian Database Conferences (2013 - 2020, Chair for 2020) 

Editorial Board Member

• Knowledge and Information Systems (2017 - 2020)

• VLDB Journal (2008 - 2015)

• IEEE Data Engineering Bulletin (2013 - 2015)

• Distributed and Parallel Databases (2013 - 2019)

• IEEE Transactions on Cloud Computing (2013 - 2019)

• IEEE Transactions on Knowledge and Data Engineering (2009 - 2013)

• World Wide Web Journal (since 2010)

• Journal of Information Processing (since 2012, published by Information Processing Society of Japan)

• Encyclopedia of Database Systems (published in 2011 publication by Springer, 2nd edition in 2015)

• Information Processing Letters (2009 - 2010, published by Elsevier)

• Centennial Issue of Proceedings of IEEE, section editor, 2012

• International Journal of Multimedia Data Engineering and Management (IJMDEM)

• WISE Book Series, published by Springer

• Tamkang Journal of Science and Engineering, an international journal, Taiwan

• International Journal of Web and Grid Services (IJWGS)

• International Journal of Social Network Mining

Member

• Queensland State Government Open Data Bill Consultation Committee (2015)

• Member of Australian Research Council Future Fellow Selection Advisory Committee (2011)

• Member of University of Queensland Excellence in Research for Australia (ERA) Steering Committee, and Cluster Leader (Mathematical, Information and Computer Sciences) (2012)

The information below is yet to be maintained.

Advisory Board Member

• Academic Advisory Board, Chinese Ministry of Education Key Lab in Data Engineering and Knowledge Engineering, hosted by Renmin University of China (2007 – now)

• Centre for Biological Information Technology (www.cbit.uq.edu.au) (2005-2009)

• Adaptive Service Agreement and Process Management in Services Grids Project, an EU-DEST project hosted by Swinburne University (2004-2008)

Conference Chairs

• No longer updated since 2009

• [Vice Program Committee Chair] The 25th International Conference on Data Engineering (ICDE 2009), March 2009, Shanghai, China.

• [General Chair] The Joint Asia Pacific Web Conference (APWeb) and Web Age Information Management (WAIM) Conference, Suzhou, China, 1-3 April, 2009.

• [Tutorial Chair] The 6h International Conference on Service Oriented Computing (ICSOC 2008), 1-5 December 2008, Sydney, Australia.

• [General Chair] The Fourth International Conference on Advanced Data Mining and Applications (ADMA 2008), Chengdu, China, 29-31 July, 2008.

• [Tutorial Chair] The 34th International Conference on Very Large Databases (VLDB 2008), 24-30 August 2008, Auckland, New Zealand.

• [Workshop and Tutorial Chair] The 9th International Conference on Web Information Systems Engineering (WISE 2008),>Sept 2008, Auckland, New Zealand.

• [Workshop Chair] The 23rd International Conference on Data Engineering (ICDE 2006), April 3-7, 2006, Atlanta, USA. 

• [Program Committee Chair] The 8th Asia Pacific Web Conference (APWeb 2006), 16 - 18 January, 2006, Harbin, China.

• [General Chair] The First International Conference on Advanced Data Mining and Applications (ADMA 2005), Wuhan, China, 22 - 24 July, 2005.

• [General Chair, Oceania]  Human.Society@Internet 2005 Conference, 27 - 29 July, 2005, Tokyo, Japan.

• [Demo Chair] The 22nd International Conference on Data Engineering (ICDE 2005), April 5-8, 2005, Tokyo, Japan. 

• [Program Committee Chair] The 5th International Conference on Web Information Systems Engineering (WISE 2004),November 2004, Brisbane, Australia.

• [Tutorial Chair] The 6th Asia Pacific Web Conference (APWeb'2004), 14-17 April 2004, Hangzhou, China.

• [Program Committee Chair] The 5th Asia Pacific Web Conference (APWeb 2003), 23-25 April 2003, Xi'an, China.

• [Program Committee Chair] The 14th Australasian Database Conference (ADC 2003), 4-7 February 2003, Adelaide, Australia.

• [Program Committee Chair] The 13th Australasian Database Conference (ADC 2002), January 2002, Melbourne, Australia.

• [Tutorial Chair] The 3rd International Conference on Web Information System Engineering (WISE 2002), December 2002, Singapore.

• [Program Committee Chair] The 6th IFIP 2.6 Working Conference on Visual Database Systems (VDB6), May 2002, Brisbane.

• [Workshop Chair] The 1st International Conference on Web Information Systems Engineering (WISE 2000), June 2000, Hong Kong.

Program Committee Membership 

the full list no longer maintained after 2007 [pre-2007 full list]

• No longer updated since 2009

• The 35th International Conference on Very Large Databases (VLDB 2009), 24-28 August 2009, Lyons, France.

• The 18th International World Wide Web Conference (WWW 2009), 20-24 April 2009, Madrid, Spain.

• The 29th ACM SIGMOD International Conference on Management of Data (SIGMOD 2009), June 2009, Rhode Island, USA.

• The 34th International Conference on Very Large Databases (VLDB 2008), 24-30 August 2008, Auckland, New Zealand.

• The 28th ACM SIGMOD International Conference on Management of Data (SIGMOD 2008), Vancouver, Canada.

• The 17th International World Wide Web Conference (WWW 2008), 21-25 April 2008, Beijing, China. 

• The 27th ACM SIGMOD International Conference on Management of Data (SIGMOD 2007), June 2007, Beijing, China.

• The 24th International Conference on Data Engineering (ICDE 2007), April 17-20, 2007, Istanbul, Turkey.

• The 23rd International Conference on Data Engineering (ICDE 2006), April 3-7, 2006, Atlanta, USA. 

• The15th International Conference on World Wide Web (WWW 2006), May 23-26, 2006, Edinburgh, UK.

• The 10th International Conference on Extending DataBase Technology (EDBT 2006), 27-31 March, 2006, Munich, Germany.

• The 26th IEEE International Conference on Distributed Computing Systems (ICDCS 2006), July 4-7, 2006, Lisbon, Portugal.

• The 22nd International Conference on Data Engineering (ICDE 2005), April 5-8, 2005, Tokyo, Japan. 

Invited Lecturer

• No longer updated since 2009

• VLDB Database School (China), 2002

• Ewha Womans University (Korea), July 2004 

• Tamkang University (Taiwan), May 2006

• Renmin University (China), December 2006

• Nanjing University (China), July 2008

Tutorial Presenter

• (with S. Sadiq and K. Deng) "Research and Practice in Data Quality", APWeb 2008, Shenyang, China.

• (with H. T. Shen) "Video Sequence Indexing and Retrieval", DASFAA 2006, Singapore

Panelist

• WAIM 2004, April 2004, Hangzhou, China

• ADMA 2005, August 2005, Wuhan, China

• DASFAA 2006, April 2006, Singapore

Visitorship

• 2007 - 2010, Concurrent Professor, Nanjing University, CHina

• 2007 - 2010, Guest Professor, Renmin University, China

• November 2008 - January 2009, Visiting Professor, Nagoya University, Japan (Host, Prof Yoshiharu Ishikawa)

• December 2007 - January 2008, Distinguished Visiting Professor, Institute of Software, Chinese Academy of Sciences, Beijing, China (Host: Prof Mingshu Li and Prof Zhiming Ding)

• May 2006, Visiting Researcher, Wuhan University, China (Host: Prof Zhiyong Peng)

• Jan - June 2006, Visiting Senior Fellow, School of Computer Systems Engineering, Nanyang Technological University, Singapore (Hosts: A/Prof Ee Peng Lim) - on sabbatical from UQ

• December 2004, Visiting Professor, Microsoft Research Asia (Host: Dr Wei-Ying Ma)

• August 2002, Visiting Scholar, Department of System Engineering and Engineering Management, the Chinese University of Hong Kong (Host: Prof Jeffrey Yu)

• July - December 2002, Visiting Senior Fellow, Department of Computer Science, National University of Singapore (Hosts: Prof Beng Chin Ooi and A/Prof Kian Lee Tan) - on sabbatical from UQ

• August - November 2001, TAO Research Fellow, Institute of Industrial Science, The University of Tokyo, Japan (Host: Prof Masaru Kitsuregawa)

• December 2000 - January 2001, Visiting Researcher, The National Key Lab for Novel Software Technology at Nanjing University, China (Host: Prof Guihai Chen)

Other Activities

• November 2004: Microsoft Research Education Summit,  Beijing, China

• June 2006: The Greater China Database Summit, Hong Kong, China

Reviewer

• Australian Research Council (Large Grants) since 1995

• External Ph.D. and MSc. theses reviewer for many Universities in Australia and overseas

• Regular reviewers for a number of Australian and international journals, conferences and publishers