Dr. Xinjie Zhou

Biography

Dr. Xinjie Zhou is currently a database researcher at Huawei. He received his PhD degree in Individualized Interdisciplinary Program (Data Science and Analytics) at Hong Kong University of Science and Technology (HKUST) in 2025, under the supervision of Prof. Xiaofang Zhou and Prof. Lei Li. Prior to that, he obtained a Bachelor's degree in Mechanical Engineering from Xi'an Jiaotong University (XJTU) in 2018 and received a Master's degree in Mechanical Engineering under the supervision of Prof. Xinguo Ming and A/ Prof. Qichang He from Shanghai Jiao Tong University (SJTU) in 2021.

Research Interests

Dynamic shortest-path algorithms, Spatial-temporal databases, Scalable graph database management

Selected Publications

1. [TKDE 2025] Mengxuan Zhang, Xinjie Zhou, Lei Li, Xiaofang Zhou. "Partitioned Dynamic Hub Labeling for Large Road Networks." In IEEE Transactions on Knowledge and Data Engineering (TKDE), 2025. DOI: 10.1109/TKDE.2025.3538694 [pdf] 

2. [ICDE 2025] Xinjie Zhou, Mengxuan Zhang, Lei Li, Xiaofang Zhou. "High Throughput Shortest Distance Query Processing on Large Dynamic Road Networks." In 41st IEEE International Conference on Data Engineering (ICDE), 2025. [pdf]

3. [TKDE 2024] Xinjie Zhou, Kai Huang, Lei Li, Mengxuan Zhang, Xiaofang Zhou. "I/O-Efficient Multi-Criteria Shortest Paths Query Processing on Large Graphs" In IEEE Transactions on Knowledge and Data Engineering (TKDE), 2024. DOI: 10.1109/TKDE.2024.3386906 [pdf] 

4. [ICDE 2024] Xinjie Zhou, Mengxuan Zhang, Lei Li, Xiaofang Zhou. "Scalable Distance Labeling Maintenance and Construction for Dynamic Small-World Networks." In 40th IEEE International Conference on Data Engineering (ICDE), 2024. [pdf, slides]

5. [ICSS 2021] Xinjie Zhou, Guyue Gao, Xinguo Ming, Liya Wang, Dao Yin, Xiaohong Ma. "Task-oriented Knowledge Representation and Ontology Modeling for Complex Product Design." In Proceeding of International Conference on Service Science (ICSS). IEEE, 2021.

Services

Invited Journal reviewer: 

• TKDE (IEEE Transactions on Knowledge and Data Engineering)

External reviewer: 

• ICDE (IEEE International Conference on Data Engineering) 2023-2025

• SIGKDD (ACM Special Interest Group on Knowledge Discovery and Data Mining) 2023, 2025

• ICDM (IEEE International Conference on Data Mining) 2024

Teaching Assistant

1. Advanced Database Management for Data Science, DSAA 5012 

• The Hong Kong University of Science and Technology (Guangzhou)

• Feb 2023 - May 2023 ; Feb 2024 - May 2024

2. Spatial-Temporal Data Analysis, DSAA 5027

• The Hong Kong University of Science and Technology (Guangzhou)

• Sep 2022 - Dec 2022

Honors & Awards

• Second Prize for the 2024 Excellent Papers of the Computer Academy of Guangdong     12/2024

• Postgraduate Studentship of HKUST                                                2021-2024

• 2021 Outstanding Graduates of Shanghai Colleges and Universities (top 5%)                         03/2021

• UAES Scholarship of SJTU                                                                       12/2020

• Third Prize in “HUAWEI Cup” The 16th China Post-Graduate Mathematical Contest in Modeling             12/2019

• 2018 Outstanding Graduates of XJTU (top 10%)                                                   06/2018

• Outstanding Student Awards of XJTU (top 10%)                              2015/2016/2017

• First Prize in the 7th National College Mechanical Innovation Competition (top 3%).                                   07/2016

• National College Students' Innovative Entrepreneurial Training Program (Excellent).         06/2015-07/2016