Dr. Sheng Wang (王胜)
Associate Professor@Wuhan University
Ph.D. in Computer Science
MEng@NUAA, BEng@NUAA
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I am currently an associate professor at Wuhan University. My interests are mainly on spatial database. I have published full research papers on top venues in database and information systems as the first author, such as SIGMOD, PVLDB, ICDE, SIGIR, WSDM, TKDE, and ACM Computing Surveys.
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News
2021-8-19: I will serve as a PC at WSDM 2022.
2021-1-19: I will serve on the review board for PVLDB 2022.
2020-12-10: Our work "Public Transport Planning: When Transit Network Connectivity Meets Commuting Demand" is accepted to SIGMOD 2021 directly without revision.
2020-11-30: Our latest survey on trajectory data management, analytics, and learning is accepted to ACM Computing Surveys.
2020-11-28: I will give a guest lecture on clustering at Prof. Juliana Freire's Big Data Course.
2020-9-15: Our work "On the Efficiency of K-Means Clustering: Evaluation, Optimization, and Algorithm Selection" is accepted to VLDB 2021.
2020-8-25: I am invited to serve as a PC member for IJCAI 2021.
2020-3-25: Our latest survey on trajectory data management, analytics, and learning is online.
2019-9-27: I gave a 15 mins talk about my research at CUSP seminar, check the slides here.
Research Interests
Spatial dataset management: search, discovery, privacy, and decision making.
Fast Large-Scale Clustering. (PVLDB’20, PVLDB'21)
Trajectory Data Management (SIGMOD’18, SIGIR’18, WSDM’18, ICDE’17).
Real-Time Smart Cities (TKDE, WSDM’19, ICDE’18).
Experience
2019-09-present: Smart cities postdoctoral research associate at New York University.
2019.08-2019-09: Visiting scholar at Nanyang Technological University.
Selected Awards
3×TIGER/BDDA Group Top Student Paper Awards.
2018 ACM SIGIR Student Travel Grant ($2000 USD).
Travel Scholarship for 2017 ACM 50th Celebration of the Turing Award ($900 USD).
School-level Winner of 3 Minute Thesis Competition in 2016.
School-level People's Choice Winner of 3 Minute Thesis Competition in 2016.
2016 Outstanding Graduate of Nanjing University of Aeronautics and Astronautics.
2016 Excellent Master Thesis Award of Nanjing University of Aeronautics and Astronautics.
Professional Services
Journal Reviewer: TKDE (since 2019), VLDBJ (Since 2020), TIST (Since 2020), TNNLS (since 2019), WWWJ (since 2020)
PC Member: PVLDB 2022, IJCAI 2021, APWeb-WAIM 2020, ADC 2020, APWeb-WAIM 2019, MoBID@ER 2019, ADC 2019, ER 2018 (demo track), APWeb-WAIM 2018 (demo track), MLDQ@MDM 2019.
External reviewer: SIGMOD 2018, SIGIR 2018, 2017, 2016, VLDB 2019, 2018, 2017, 2016, ICDE 2020, 2019, 2018, 2017, CIKM 2017.
Membership: ACM Student Member (SIGIR, SIGMOD), IEEE Student Member.
Volunteer: IJCAI 2017.