Dr. Eric Lo
Assistant Professor
Department of Computing
The Hong Kong Polytechnic University
FirstnameLastname[at]comp.polyu.edu.hk
-- Whatever
you
are
doing,
work
at
it
with
enthusiasm, as to the Lord and not for people. (Colossians
3:23)
Hi! My name is Eric. I am an assistant professor at the Hong Kong Polytechnic University
(HKPU). I received my MPhil degree in computer science from the University of Hong Kong (HKU).
Then, with God's bless and the support of Croucher Scholarship, I
received my PhD degree from ETH Zurich in
two years. At ETH Zurich, I was a member of the Systems Group.
Before I returned to Hong Kong, I had worked for Google (Mountain
View). I was also a visiting scientist of Microsoft (Redmond).
I am a member of the database group
in the department. My research interests are database, data
mining, and software engineering. Recently, I mainly focus
on OLAP (business intelligence/decision support) of
non-traditional data (e.g., graph data, RFID sequence data), big
data analytic (e.g., Hadoop), core database technology (e.g.,
query processing, query optimization, benchmarking and testing),
and database usability.
To students who want to join my
research group: Generally, I do not reply any unsolicited
emails unless you go through the procedure stated here.
Selected
Publications
- Andy He and Eric Lo: Answering
Why-Not Questions on Top-K Queries. ICDE 2012,
Washington D.C.
- Selected as Bests of ICDE 2012
- C. Ren, Eric Lo, Ben Kao, X. Zhu, and Reynold Cheng: On
Querying Historical Evolving Graph Sequences. PVLDB 2011,
Seattle.
- M. L. Yiu, Eric Lo, and Duncan Yung: Authentication
of Moving kNN Queries. ICDE 2011, Germany.
- M. L. Yiu, Eric Lo, and Duncan Yung: Measuring
the
Sky:
On
Computing
Data
Cubes
via
Skylining the Measures. TKDE, to appear.
- Eric Lo, Nick Cheng, and Wing-Kai Hon: Generating Databases for Query
Workload. PVLDB 2010, Singapore.
- Reynold Cheng, Eric Lo, X. Yang, Ming-Hay Luk, X. Li, and X.
Xie: Explore
or
Exploit?
Effective
Strategies
for
Disambiguating
Large
Databases. PVLDB 2010, Singapore.
- Eric Lo, C. Binnig, D. Kossmann, Tamer Ozsu, Wing-Kai Hon: A
Framework for Testing DBMS Features. VLDB Journal 2009.
- Eric Lo, Ben Kao, W.S. Ho, S.D. Lee, and David W. Cheung: OLAP on Sequence Data SIGMOD
2008, Vancouver. (Implementation)
- Eric Lo, Donald Kossmann, Florian Haftmann: Parallel Execution
of Test Runs for Database Application Systems. VLDB 2005.
- Selected as Bests of VLDB 2005
Or you can check out my DBLP.
Recent
Professional Services and Awards
- PC Co-Chair: DBTest
2012
- PC member: VLDB 2013, KDD 2012, EDBT 2012, ICDE 2012, SIGMOD
2012 (Demo), DASFAA 2012
- Publicity Chair: APSEC 2012, CIKM 2009
- Reviewers of Journals: TKDE, VLDB Journal, TSE, DKE,
Information Science
- Bests of VLDB 2005, Bests of ICDE 2012
- Croucher Scholarship: 2005, 2006, 2007
- Exco of IEEE Hong Kong Computer: 2009 -
Research Students
- Petrie Wong (from Hong Kong Polytechnic University)
- Andy He (from Zhejiang University, China)
- [Graduating] Duncan Yung (from The University of Hong Kong)
- [Graduated; MPhil 2011] Ming-Hay Luk (from UC Berkeley; First
Employment: Electronic Arts (San Francisco))
Teaching
- COMP5111 Database Systems
- COMP316 Object-Oriented Methods for Information System
Development (2010/2011)
- COMP305 Data Structures and Algorithms (2010/2011)
Others
- I don't know why you want to see my photo. But if you insist,
you can take a look here
(taken N years ago).
- You can see my Chinese name here
(in traditional Chinese).
- Some of my final year project students (Chan Ka Ho Marco, Lee
Wai Lok, Tong Chun Yin) had created an API
for
constructing System Dependency Graphs for Java programs.
(Disclaimer: I haven't tested it! All consequences
of using that are on your own.) But you may find it
useful.
