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I am now recruiting a PhD student and a research personnel: research associate / research assistant / research technical assistant working on topics related to outlier detection, data mining, uncertain database. Please contact me if you are interested. See Advertisement. Please email me your application form, CV (with research experience, if any), transcripts and relevant documents.

Email: csehung[at]comp[dot]polyu[dot]edu[dot]hk

Office: PQ711
Department of Computing
The Hong Kong Polytechnic University
Hung Hom, Kowloon, Hong Kong

Phone: (852) 2766 7288

Ph.D.(Maryland), M.S.(Maryland), M.Phil.(HK), B.Eng.(HK)

Edward Hung is an assistant professor at the Department of Computing, the Hong Kong Polytechnic University. He received his B.Eng. in Computer Engineering and M.Phil. in Computer Science from the University of Hong Kong in 1998 and 2000 respectively. He obtained his M.S. degree and Ph.D. degree from the Department of Computer Science, the University of Maryland, College Park (UMCP) in May 2002 and May 2005. He was supported by Scholarships from the Croucher Foundation and research assistantship for his Ph.D. research during 2000 - 2003 and 2003 - 2005 under supervision of Prof. V.S. Subrahmanian. He was awarded a number of scholarships and awards, including Jacob K. Goldhaber Travel Grant Award, Hung Hing Ying Scholarship, Epson Foundation Scholarship, the Hong Kong and China Gas Company Limited Postgraduate Scholarship, Stephen Kam-Chuen Cheong Memorial Scholarships, and the Hong Kong Institution of Engineers Student Prize, etc.

Edward's general research area is database, data mining, uncertainty reasoning and semantic web. He has broad interests in model theory, algebra, query processing, view maintenance, data warehousing and data integration, involving relational, XML, RDF and OWL databases. His recent research interests include outlier detection, probabilistic ontology, probabilistic data mining, classification, privacy preserving in data mining, etc. He has seventeen conference papers, five journal articles and two book chapters related to data mining (for uncertain data, outsourcing, parallel system), outlier detection, classification, probabilistic ontology, RDF aggregates and view maintenance, recall improvement in XML queries by ontologies and similarities, probabilistic semistructured databases, data warehousing and E-commerce.

Curriculum Vitae (pdf)

List of publications (with links and citations)

Teaching

2009-2010 Semester 1 Teaching: COMP5111-B Database Systems and Management
2008-2009 Semester 2 Teaching: COMP440 Customer Relationship Management
2008-2009 Semester 1 Teaching: COMP5111 and COMP5111-B Database Systems and Management
2007-2008 Semester 2 Teaching: COMP5111 Database Systems and Management, COMP440 Customer Relationship Management
2007-2008 Semester 1 Teaching: COMP5111 Database Systems and Management
2006-2007 Semester 2 Teaching: COMP305 Data Structures and Algorithms, COMP440 Customer Relationship Management
2006-2007 Semester 1 Teaching: COMP5111 Database Systems and Management
2005-2006 Summer Semester Teaching: COMP5538 Customer Relationship Management and Technology
2005-2006 Semester 2 Teaching: COMP5538 Customer Relationship Management and Technology
2005-2006 Semester 1 Teaching: COMP5111 Database Systems and Management

Research Interests

(1) Probabilistic Databases
(2) Data Mining and Knowledge Discovery
(3) Privacy-preserving Data Mining, and Parallel Data Mining
(4) Semistructured (XML) Databases
(5) Semantic Web (Ontology Management)
(6) Semantic Matchmaking (e.g., Online Dating, Social Networking)



Research Projects CIDM presentation

6 Publications in 2009: a journal paper in PVLDB, a journal paper in Computational Intelligence, a conference paper in VLDB, a conference paper in PAKDD, a conference paper in ACML, a book chapter in Managing and Mining Uncertain Data
4 Publications in 2008: a conference paper in AI-08, a conference paper in PAKDD, 2 papers in IEEE WMWA Workshop
4 Publications in 2007: a journal paper in TOCL, a conference paper in VLDB, a conference paper in PAKDD, a conference paper in CIDM
2 Publications in 2005: a conference paper in ICDE, an invited conference paper in OTM Confederated International Conferences (CoopIS, DOA, and ODBASE)
2 Publications in 2004: a conference paper in SIGMOD, a journal paper in JIIS (Journal of Intelligent Information Systems)
2 Publications in 2003: a conference paper in ICDT, a conference paper in ICDE
2 Publications in 2002: a journal paper in DAPD (Distributed and Parallel Database), a book chapter in E-Service
1 Publication in 2000: a conference paper in PAKDD
1 Publication in 1999: a conference paper in IDC
2 papers under review: 1 journal paper, 1 conference paper
2 papers in progress: 1 journal paper, 2 conference paper

Estimated impact of publications: (rank, name, impact factor, percentile)
66. SIGMOD Conference: 1.74 (top 5.40%)
106. VLDB: 1.52 (top 8.68%)
129. ICDT: 1.41 (top 10.56%)
150. TOCL: 1.30 (top 12.28%)
167. ICDE: 1.25 (top 13.67%)
206. Distributed and Parallel Databases: 1.16 (top 16.87%)
241. JIIS: 1.08 (top 19.73%)
447. Computational Intelligence: 0.72 (top 36.60%)
801. PAKDD: 0.30 (top 65.60%)
970. Australian Joint Conference on Artificial Intelligence: 0.16 (top 79.44%)

Grants Received

1. GRF (previously CERG) 2009-2010 (PolyU 5191/09E): Approximation of probabilistic distance distribution on uncertain data and its application in outlier detection (HK$448,791 plus HK$30,000 from Central Research Grant))
2. ICRG 2008-2009: Design and Generation of a Decision Cluster Classification Method (HK$100,000)
3. Internal Grant for Proposals Rated 3.5 in CERG 2008-2009 (HK$150,000)
4. ICRG 2007-2008: Clustering Web-Search Results (HK$80,000)
5. GRF (previously CERG) 2007-2008 (PolyU 5174/07E): Development of Enhanced Probabilistic Ontology (EPO) Model and EPO-Based Semantic Matching for Matching User Profiles (HK$369,600 plus HK$30,000 from Central Research Grant)
6. ICRG 2006-2007: Distance Representation Modeling for Uncertain Objects (HK$120,000)
7. Internal Grant for Proposals Rated 3.5 in CERG 2006-2007: Data Mining on Uncertain Data (HK$150,000)
8. ICRG 2005-2006: Probabilistic Outlier Detection on Uncertain Data (HK$120,000)

Academic Activities

Editorial Review Board Member

International Journal of Systems and Service-Oriented Engineering (IJSSOE)

Conference Program Committee Member

The Fifth International Conference on Internet and Web Applications and Services (ICIW), 2010
The Second International Conference on Advances in Databases, Knowledge, and Data Applications (DBKDA), 2010
The 2nd International workshop on Defense against Spam in Electronic Communication (DaSECo'10) (DEXA'10 workshop), 2010
The 18th ACM Conference on Information and Knowledge Management (CIKM), 2009
The Third International Conference on Scalable Uncertainty Management (SUM), 2009
The 8th International Conference on Machine Learning and Cybernetics (ICMLC), 2009
The Fourth International Conference on Internet and Web Applications and Services (ICIW), 2009
The First International Conference on Advances in Databases (DB 2009)
IADIS European Conference on Data Mining (ECDM), 2009
The 3rd International Workshop on Service-Oriented Knowledge Management (SOKM'09) (in conjunction with ICEBE 2009)
The First Workshop on Management and mining of UNcertain Data (MOUND 2009)
The 1st International workshop on Defense against Spam in Electronic Communication (DaSECo'09) (DEXA'09 workshop)
International Workshop on Mobile Business Collaboration (MBC'09) (DASFAA workshop), 2009
International Conference on Scalable Uncertainty Management (SUM) 2008
IADIS European Conference on Data Mining (ECDM), 2008
The 7th International Conference on Machine Learning and Cybernetics (ICMLC), 2008
International Workshop on Social and Legal Aspects under Emerging Computing Environments (SLAECE 2008) with ICIW 2008
International Workshop on Electronic Service Marketing (ESM 2008) (SCC Workshop), 2008
IADIS European Conference on Data Mining (ECDM), 2007
International Conference on Scalable Uncertainty Management (SUM) 2007
The 6th International Conference on Machine Learning and Cybernetics (ICMLC), 2007
The International Workshop on Service-Oriented Knowledge Management (SOKM 2007)
The 1st Workshop on Data Mining of Uncertain Data (DUNE 2007)
International Conference on Ontologies, Databases and Application of Semantics (ODBASE) 2006
International Conference on Web-Age Information Management (WAIM) 2006

Journal Reviewers

ACM Transactions on Database Systems (TODS), 2009
IEEE Transactions on Knowledge and Data Engineering (TKDE), 2005, 2007, 2008, 2009
VLDB Journal, 2008, 2009
Knowledge and Information Systems (KAIS), 2005, 2006, 2007, 2008, 2009
Soft Computing, 2009
International Journal of Computer Systems Science and Engineering, 2009
Service Oriented Computing and Applications, 2008
International Journal of Business Process Integration and Management, 2007, 2008
Computational Intelligence Journal, 2007
International Journal of Business Process Integration and Management, 2007
Special Issue on "Data Management" of the Journal of Computer Science and Technology (published by Springer Science + Business Media), 2006
Data & Knowledge Engineering (DKE) Journal, 2005
Software: Practice and Experience (SPE), 2005
Information Processing Letters (IPL), 2000

Others

Reviewer, Handbook of Research on Service Intelligence and Service Science (SISS), 2009
Reviewer, Special Session on Ontology Methodologies and Applications (OMA) at the 5th International Conference on Natural Computation (ICNC'09) & the 6th International Conference on Fuzzy Systems and Knowledge Discovery (FSKD'09) ICNC'09 & FSKD'09, 2009
Reviewer, the 24th Annual ACM Symposium on Applied Computing, 2009
Reviewer, the 23rd Annual ACM Symposium on Applied Computing, 2008
Reviewer, the IEEE International Conference on Data Mining (ICDM), Hong Kong, 2006.
Reviewer, International Conference Information Technology and Management (ICITM) 2006, Hong Kong, 2007.
External Reviewer, CERG proposals, Research Grants Council, Hong Kong SAR Government, Hong Kong, 2005-2006.
Reviewer, 7th ACM Postgraduate Research Day, Hong Kong, 2006.

Services

Session Chair, "Session 5C: Recommendation and Rating Systems", the 13th Pacific-Asia Conference on Knowledge Discovery and Data Mining (PAKDD), 2009
Final Year Project Quality Assurance Panel Member, Department of Computing, Hong Kong Polytechnic University, 2005-2009
Interview panel member of JUPAS applications, Department of Computing, Hong Kong Polytechnic University, 2006, 2007, 2008, 2009
External examiner of Ph.D. candidate, Ngai Wang Kay, Department of Computer Science, University of Hong Kong, 2009
External examiner of M.Phil. candidate, Chui Chun Kit, Department of Computer Science, University of Hong Kong, 2007
Judge of Finals of the IT Debate 2006, the 18th Hong Kong Joint School Electronics and Computer Exhibition, organized by Hong Kong Joint School Electronics and Computer Society, Aug 23, 2006.
Judge of ITª¬¤¸ª§ÅQ¾Ô (IT competition for secondary school students), co-organized by PC Weekly, OGCIO, and Department of Computing at Hong Kong Polytechnic University, May 28, 2006