Biography
Education
Ph.D. Computer Science and Engineering, the University of New South Wales, Australia. 2007 - 2010.
B.E. Computer Science and Engineering, Northeastern University, China. 2001 - 2005.
Professional Experience
04/2021 -- present: Associate Professor, Osaka University, Japan / Guest Associate Professor, Nagoya University, Japan.
04/2019 -- 03/2021: Specially Appointed Associate Professor, Osaka University, Japan / Guest Associate Professor, Nagoya University, Japan.
03/2014 -- 03/2019: Designated Assistant Professor, Nagoya University, Japan.
10/2011 -- 02/2014: Postdoc Research Associate, Nagoya University, Japan.
09/2010 -- 09/2011: Postdoc Research Fellow, the University of New South Wales, Australia.
Supervision
Current
Ryoga Yoshida. Master, Osaka University.
Haochen Zhang. Master, Osaka University.
Song Que. Master, Osaka University.
Rei Taniguchi. Master, Osaka University.
Ryosuke Mizui. Undergraduate, Osaka University.
Graduated
Yuto Ikeda. Master, Osaka University.
Zhongqing Jiang. Master, Osaka University.
Samrat Thapa. Bachelor, Osaka University.
Zengqing Wu. Bachelor, 2023, Osaka University.
Jun Kawagoshi. Master, 2023, Osaka University.
Kuntian Zhang. Master, 2022, Osaka University.
Mingmin Gao. Master, 2020, Nagoya University.
Sheng Hu. PhD, 2019, Nagoya University.
Yaobin Hu. Master, 2018, Nagoya University.
Pei Wang. Master, 2016, Nagoya University.
Jie Zhang. PhD, 2015, Nagoya University.
Co-supervised with Other Faculty Members
Kazuto Matsumoto. Bachelor, 2022, Osaka University. Main supervisor: Makoto Onizuka.
Satoshi Koide. PhD, 2020, Nagoya University. Main supervisor: Yoshiharu Ishikawa.
Tingting Dong. PhD, 2016, Nagoya University. Main supervisor: Yoshiharu Ishikawa.
Xi Guo. PhD, 2013, Nagoya University. Main supervisor: Yoshiharu Ishikawa.
Xiang Zhao. PhD, 2013, University of New South Wales. Main supervisor: Xuemin Lin.
Professional Activities
Conference Officer
PC Chair: SFDI 2020.
PC Vice Chair: BigData 2023, DASFAA 2024 (on behalf of PC Chairs).
Track Chair: SoiCT 2017, APWeb-WAIM 2024.
International Relationship Chair: iDB 2012.
Program Committee Member (Research Track)
NeurIPS: 2022 -- 2024.
EMNLP: 2024.
LLM Agents: 2024.
KDD: 2022, 2023.
CIKM: 2014, 2022, 2024 (SPC).
VLDB: 2016, 2018, 2020.
ICDE: 2014, 2025.