Xiaofang Zhou

Professor Xiaofang Zhou _^PhD，FIEEE

School of Information Technology and Electrical Engineering
The University of Queensland, Brisbane QLD 4072 AUSTRALIA

Office:	Room 629, Building 78, St Lucia Campus (map)
Phone:	(61-7) 33652989
Email:	zxf@itee.uq.edu.au

Assistant:	Kathleen Williamson (Ph:0434070948, Email:bigk@itee.uq.edu.au)

Dr Xiaofang Zhou is a Professor of Computer Science at The University of Queensland. He received his BSc and MSc degrees in Computer Science from Nanjing University, China, and PhD in Computer Science from UQ. He was the Leader of UQ DKE/Data Science Research Division from 2006 to 2020, leading this large research group which received 5 out of 5 ranking in the Australian Research Council's research quality assessment for three consecutive rounds (ERA 2012, 2015, 2018). Before joining UQ in 1999, he worked in the Commonwealth Scientific and Industrial Research Organisation (CSIRO), leading its Spatial Information Systems group. His research focus is to find effective and efficient solutions for managing, integrating, and analyzing large-scale complex data for business, scientific and personal applications. He has been working in the area of spatiotemporal and multimedia databases, data mining, data quality management, high-performance query processing, big data analytics, and machine learning, co-authored over 350 research papers. He received the Best Paper Awards of WISE 2012&2013, ICDE 2015&2019, DASFAA 2016 and ADC 2019. He was the Program Committee Chair of IEEE International Conference on Data Engineering (ICDE 2013), ACM International Conference on Information and Knowledge Management (CIKM 2016), and International Conference on Very Large Databases (PVLDB 2020). He was the General Chair of ACM Multimedia Conference (MM 2015). He was a keynote speaker at WISE 2008, CIKM 2015, DEXA 2018 and MDM 2019. He has been on the program committees of numerous international conferences, often as a Senior PC member, including SIGMOD, VLDB, ICDE, WWW, ACM Multimedia, CIKM, ICDM, PAKDD, ICDCS, IJCAI, AAAI and SIGKDD. He was the Convenor and Director of the ARC Research Network in Enterprise Information Infrastructure (2004-2011, a major national research collaboration initiative in Australia), Research Director of the ARC Training Centre for Information Resilience (2020 - 2025), and a Chief Investigator for the ARC Centre of Excellence in Bioinformatics (2003 - 2010) and Center for Energy Data Innovation (2018 - 2023). Currently, he is an Associate Editor of The World Wide Web Journal, Knowledge and Information Systems, and Springer's Encyclopedia of Database Systems. He was the Chair of IEEE Technical Committee on Data Engineering (2015 - 2018), and the founding chair of ACM SIGSPATIAL Australian Chapter (2010-2011). He has been on the Steering Committees of ICDE, DASFAA (Vice Chair, 2019 - now), WISE, APWeb (Chair, 2010 - 2018), Australasian Database Conferences (Chair, 2020-now) and BigComp conferences, and a member of the PVLDB Advisory Board (2019-). In the past, he was an Associate Editor of The VLDB Journal (2008-2015), IEEE Data Engineering Bulletin, Information Processing Letters, IEEE Transactions on Knowledge and Data Engineering (2009 - 2015), IEEE Transactions on Cloud Computing (2013-2019), Distributed and Parallel Databases (2015-2020). He is a Fellow of IEEE.

Some Recent Publications more publications

Award Papers

Hongzhi Yin, Qinyong Wang, Kai Zheng, Zhixu Li, Jiali Yang, Xiaofang Zhou, "Social Influence-based Group Representation Learning for Group Recommendation", The 35th IEEE International Conference on Data Engineering (ICDE 2019), Macau, China, April 2019. (Best Paper Award)
Mengxuan Zhang, Lei Li, Wen Hua, Xiaofang Zhou, "Batch Processing of Shortest Path Queries in Road Networks", The 30th Australasian Database Conference (ADC 2019), Sydney, Australia, January 2019. (Best Paper Runner-up Award)
Yu Liu, Wen Hua, Xiaofang Zhou, "Extracting Temporal Patterns from Large-Scale Text Corpus, The 30th Australasian Database Conference (ADC 2019), Sydney, Australia, January 2019. (Best Paper Award)
X. Du, H. Yin, Z. Huang, Y. Yang, X. Zhou, "Using Detected Visual Objects to Index Video Database", The 27th Australasian Database Conference (ADC 2016), pages 333-345, Sydney, Australia, Sept 2016. (Best Paper Award)
Wei Chen, Feida Zhu, Lei Zhao, Xiaofang Zhou, "When Peculiarity Makes a Difference: Object Characterization in Heterogeneous Information Networks", The 21st International Conference on Database Systems for Advanced Applications (DASFAA 2016), pages 3-17, Dallas, USA, April 2016. (Best Paper Award)
Wen Hua, Zhongyuan Wang, Haixun Wang, Kai Zheng, Xiaofang Zhou, "Short Text Understanding Through Lexical-Semantic Analysis", The 31st IEEE International Conference on Data Engineering, (ICDE 2015), pages 495-506, Seoul, South Korea, April 2015. (Best Paper Award)
Xuefei Li, Hongyun Cai, Zi Huang, Yang Yang, Xiaofang Zhou, "Spatio-temporal Event Modeling and Ranking", The 14th International Conference on Web Information System Engineering (WISE 2013), pages 361-371, Nanjing, China, October 2013. (Best Paper Award)
Zhixu Li, Mohamed A. Sharaf, Laurianne Sitbon, Shazia Wasim Sadiq, Marta Indulska, Xiaofang Zhou, "WebPut: Efficient Web-based Data Imputation", The 13th International Conference on Web Information System Engineering (WISE 2012), pages 243-256, Paphos, Cyprus, November 2012. (Best Paper Award)

Keynote Speeches

"Efficient Processing of Big Spatiotemporal Data", The 7th China Computer Federation Big Data Conference
"Spatiotemporal Big Search: Dealing with the Bigness", The 7th International Conference on Advanced Cloud and Big Data (CBD 2019)
"New Advances in Spatial Trajectory Analytics", IEEE MDM 2019
"Spatial Trajectory Analytics: Past, Present and Future", DEXA 2018
"Making Sense of Spatial Trajectories", ACM CIKM 2015
"Fuzzy Nearest Neighbour Query Processing", National Database Conference of China (NDBC 2010)
"Building the World from Views", WAIM 2010
"Data Quality in Web Information Systems", WISE 2008
"Adding a Spatial Dimension to WWW", APWeb 2000
"Spatial Internet Marketplaces", APWeb 1998

Accepted Papers

An Liu, Yifan Zhang, Xiangliang Zhang, Guanfeng Li, Yanan Zhang, Zhixu Li, Lei Zhao, Qing Li, Xiaofanbg Zhou, "Representation Learning with Multi-level Attention for Activity Trajectory Similarity Computation", IEEE Transactions on Knowledge and Data Engineering (accepted in July 2020).
Mengxuan Zhang, Lei Li, Wen Hua, Xiaofang Zhou, "Stream Processing of Shortest Path Queries in Dynamic Road Networks", IEEE Transactions on Knowledge and Data Engineering (accepted in July 2020).
Pengpeng Zhao, Anjing Luo, Yanchi Liu, Fuzhen Zhuang, Jiajie Xu, Zhixu Li, Victor Sheng, Xiaofang Zhou, "Where to Go Next: A Spatio-Temporal Gated Network for Next POI Recommendation", IEEE Transactions on Knowledge and Data Engineering (accepted in June 2020).
Kangzhi Zhao, Yong Zhang, Hongzhi Yin, Jin Wang, Kai Zheng, Xiaofang Zhou, Chunxiao Xing, "Discovering Subsequence Patterns for Next POI Recommendation", IJCAI 2020.
Saeed Najafipour, Saeid Hosseini, Wen Hua, Mohammad Reza Kangavari, Xiaofang Zhou, "SoulMate: Short-text Author Linking Through Multi-aspect Temporal-textual Embedding", IEEE Transactions on Knowledge and Data Engineering (accepted in March 2020).
Lei Li, Sibo Wang, Xiaofang Zhou, "Fastest Path Query Answering using Time-Dependent Hop-Labeling in Road Network", IEEE Transactions on Knowledge and Data Engineering (accepted in March 2020).
Pinfgu Chao, Wen Hua, Rui Mao, Jiajie Xu, Xiaofang Zhou, "A Survey and Quantitative Study on Map Inference Algorithms from GPS Trajectories", IEEE Transactions on Knowledge and Data Engineering (accepted in Feb 2020).
Yongxuan Lai, Songyao He, Zhijie Lin, Fan Yang, Qi-Feng Zhou, Xiaofang Zhou, "An Adaptive Robust Semi-supervised Clustering Framework Using Weighted Consensus of Random k-Means Ensemble", IEEE Transactions on Knowledge and Data Engineering (accepted in October 2019).
Guohao Sun, Guanfeng Liu, Yan Wang, Xiaofang Zhou, "Updates-Aware Graph Pattern based Node Matching", ICDE 2020.
Zhong Yang, Bolong Zheng, Guohui Li, Xi Zhao, Xiaofang Zhou, Christian Jensen, "Adaptive Overlap Set Similarity Top-k Joins", ICDE 2020.
Tong Chen, Hongzhi Yin, Quoc Viet Hung Nguyen, Wen-Chih Peng, Xue Li, Xiaofang Zhou, "Sequence-Aware Factorization Machines for Temporal Predictive Analytics", ICDE 2020.
Lei Li, Mengxuan Zhang, Wen Hua, Xiaofang Zhou, "Fast Query Decomposition for Batch Shortest Path Processing in Road Networks", ICDE 2020.
Binbin Gu, Zhixu Li, An Liu, Jiajie Xu, Lei Zhao, Xiaofang Zhou, "Improving the Quality of Web-based Data Imputation with Crowd Intervention", IEEE Transactions on Knowledge and Data Engineering (accepted in October 2019).
Junhua Fang, Rong Zhang, Yan Zhao, Kai Zheng, Xiaofang Zhou, Aoying Zhou, "A-DSP: An Adaptive Join Algorithm for Dynamic Data Stream on Cloud System", IEEE Transactions on Knowledge and Data Engineering (accepted in October 2019).
Pengpeng Zhao, Chengfeng Xu, Yanchi Liu, Victor Sheng, Kai Zheng, Hui Xiong, Xiaofang Zhou, "Photo2Trip: Exploiting Visual Contents in Geo-tagged Photos for Personalized Tour Recommendation", IEEE Transactions on Knowledge and Data Engineering (accepted in Sept 2019).
Guohao Sun, Guanfeng Liu, Yan Wang, Mehmet A. Orgun, Quan Z. Sheng, Xiaofang Zhou, "Incremental Graph Pattern based Node Matching with Multiple Updates", IEEE Transactions on Knowledge and Data Engineering (accepted in Sept 2019).
Dan He, Sibo Wang, Xiaofang Zhou, Reynold Cheng, "GLAD: A Grid and Labeling Framework with Scheduling for Conflict-Aware kNN Queries”, IEEE Transactions on Knowledge and Data Engineering (accepted in Sept 2019).
Yan Zhao, Kai Zheng, Yue Cui, Han Su, Feida Zhu, Xiaofang Zhou, "Predictive Task Assignment in Spatial Crowdsourcing: A Data-driven Approach", ICDE 2020.
Han Su, Shuncheng Liu, Bolong Zheng, Xiaofang Zhou, Kai Zheng, "A Survey of Trajectory Distance Measures and Performance Evaluation", The VLDB Journal (accepted in August 2019).
Yan Zhao, Kau Zheng, Yang Li, Han Su, Jiajun Liu, Xiaofang Zhou, "Destination-aware Task Assignment in Spatial Crowdsourcing: A Worker Decomposition Approach", IEEE Transactions on Knowledge and Data Engineering (accepted in June 2019).
Tingting Zhang, Pengpeng Zhao, Yanchi Liu, Victor Sheng, Jiajie Xu, Deqing Wang, Guanfeng Liu, Xiaofang Zhou, "Feature-level Deeper Self-Attention Network for Sequential Recommendation", IJCAI 2019.
Chengfeng Xu, Pengpeng Zhao, Yanchi Liu, Victor Sheng, Jiajie Xu, Junhua Fang, Xiaofang Zhou, "Contextualized Self-Attention Networks for Session-based Recommendation", IJCAI 2019.
Yan Zhao, Kai Zheng, Defu Lian, Bolong Zheng, Guanfeng Liu, Xiaofang Zhou, "Reference-based Framework for Spatio-temporal Trajectory Compression and Query Processing", IEEE Transactions on Knowledge and Data Engineering (accepted in April 2019).
Guohui Li, Qi Chen, Bolong Zheng, Hongzhi Yin, Nguyen Quoc Viet Hung, Xiaofang Zhou, "Group based Recurrent Neural Networks for POI Recommendation", ACM Transactions on Data Science (accepted in Feb 2019).
Lei Li, Sibo Wang, Xiaofang Zhou, "Time-Dependent Hop Labeling on Road Network", ICDE 2019.
Junye Yang, Yong Zhang, Xiaofang Zhou, Jin Wang, Huiqi Hu, Chunxiao Xing, "A Hierarchical Framework for Top-k Location-aware Error-tolerant Keyword Search", ICDE 2019.
Dan He, Sibo Wang, Xiaofang Zhou, Reynold Cheng, "An Efficient Framework for Correctness-Aware kNN Queries on Road Networks", ICDE 2019.
Fengmei Jin, Wen Hua, Jiajie Xu, Xiaofang Zhou, "Moving Object Linking Based on Historical Trace", ICDE 2019.
Chengfeng Xu, Pengpeng Zhao, Yanchi Liu, Jiajie Xu, Victor Sheng, Zhiming Cui, Xiaofang Zhou, Hui Xiong, "Recurrent Convolutional Neural Network for Sequential Recommendation", WWW 2019.
Jianfeng Qu, Wen Hua, Dantong Ouyang, Yuxin Ye, Xiaofang Zhou, "Discovering Correlations Between Sparse Features in Distant Supervision for Relation Extraction", WSDM 2019.
Pengpeng Zhao, Haifenmg Zhu, Yanchi Liu, Jiajie Xu, Zhixu Li, Fuzhen Zhuang, Victor Sheng, Xiaofang Zhou, "Where to Go Next: A Spatio-Temporal Gated Network for Next POI Recommendation", AAAI 2019.
Kai Zheng, Yan Zhao, Defu Lian, Bolong Zheng, Guanfeng Liu, Xiaofang Zhou, "Reference-based Framework for Spatio-temporal Trajectory Compression and Query Processing”, IEEE Transactions on Knowledge and Data Engineering (published online in May 2019).
Minjun Xiao, Kai Ma, An Liu, Hui Zhao, Zhixu Li, Kai Zheng, Xiaofang Zhou, "SRA: Secure Reverse Auction for Task Assignment in Spatial Crowdsourcing", IEEE Transactions on Knowledge and Data Engineering (accepted in Jan 2019).
Xingzhong Du, Hongzhi Yin, Ling Chen, Yang Wang, Yi Yang, Xiaofang Zhou, "Personalized Video Recommendation Using Rich Contents from Videos", IEEE Transactions on Knowledge and Data Engineering (accepted in Dec 2018).
Bolong Zheng, Kai Zheng, Christian S. Jensen, Nguyen Quoc Viet Hung, Han Su, Guohui Li, Xiaofang Zhou, "Answering Why-Not Group Spatial Keyword Queries", IEEE Transactions on Knowledge and Data Engineering (accepted in Nov 2018).

Published Papers

Xingzhong Du, Feiping Nie, Weiqing Wang, Yi Yang, Xiaofang Zhou, "Exploiting Combination Effect for Unsupervised Feature Selection by l_{2,0} Norm", IEEE Transactions on Neural Networks and Learning Systems 30(1): 201-214 (2019).
Junhua Fang, Rong Zhang, Tom Z. J. Fu, Zhenjie Zhang, Aoying Zhou, Xiaofang Zhou, "Distributed Stream Rebalance for Stateful Operator Under Workload Variance", IEEE Transactions on Parallel and Distributed Systems 29(10): 2223-2240 (2018).
Zhongjian Lv, Jiajie Xu, Kai Zheng, Pengpeng Zhao, Hongzhi Yin, Xiaofang Zhou, "LC-RNN: A Deep Learning Model for Traffic Speed Prediction", IJCAI 2018: 3470-3476.
Weiqing Wang, Hongzhi Yin, Xiaofang Zhou, Quoc View Hung Nguyen, "TPM: A Temporal Personalized Model for Spatial Item Recommendation", ACM Transactions on Intelligent Systems and Technology 9(6): 61:1-61:25 (2018).
Lei Li, Kai Zheng, Sibo Wang, Wen Hua, Xiaofang Zhou, "Go Slow to Go Fast: Minimal On-Road Time Route Scheduling with Parking Facilities Using Historical Trajectory", VLDB Journal 27(3): 321-345 (2018).
Hongzhi Yin, Lei Zou, Quoc Viet Hung Nguyen, Zi Huang, Xiaofang Zhou, "Joint Event-Partner Recommendation in Event-based Social Networks", ICDE 2018: 929-940.
Wei Chen, Hongzhi Yin, Weiqing Wang, Lei Zhao, Xiaofang Zhou, "Effective and Efficient User Account Linkage Across Location Based Social Networks", ICDE 2018: 1085-1096.
Guohao Sun, Guanfeng Liu, Yan Wang, Mehmet A. Orgun, Xiaofang Zhou, "Incremental Graph Pattern based Node Matching", ICDE 2018: 281-292.
Xingcan Cui, Xiaohui Yu, Xiaofang Zhou, Jiong Guo, "ID Repair for Trajectories with Transition Graphs", EDBT 2018: 1-12.
Guanfeng Liu, Yi Liu, Kai Zheng, An Liu, Zhixu Li, Yan Wang, Xiaofang Zhou, "MCS-GPM: Multi-Constrained Simulation Based Graph Pattern Matching in Contextual Social Graphs", IEEE Transactions on Knowledge and Data Engineering 30(6): 1050-1064 (2018).
Zhixu Li, Ying He, Binbin Gu, An Liu, Hongsong Li, Haixun Wang, Xiaofang Zhou, "Diagnosing and Minimizing Semantic Drift in Iterative Bootstrapping Extraction", IEEE Transactions on Knowledge and Data Engineering 30(5): 852-865 (2018).
Nguyen Quoc Viet Hung, Huynh Huu Viet, Thanh Tam Nguyen, Matthias Weidlich, Hongzhi Yin, Xiaofang Zhou, "Computing Crowd Consensus with Partial Agreement", IEEE Transactions on Knowledge and Data Engineering 30(1): 1-14 (2018).
Hongzhi Yin, Weiqing Wang, Hao Wang, Ling Chen, Xiaofang Zhou, "Spatial-Aware Hierarchical Collaborative Deep Learning for POI Recommendation", IEEE Transactions on Knowledge and Data Engineering 29(11): 2537-2551 (2017).
Bolong Zheng, Han Su, Wen Hua, Kai Zheng, Xiaofang Zhou, Guohui Li, “Efficient Clue-Based Route Search on Road Networks”, IEEE Transactions on Knowledge and Data Engineering 29(9): 1846-1859 (2017).
Lei Zhu, Zi Huang, Xiaobai Liu, Xiangnan He, Jiande Sun, Xiaofang Zhou, "Discrete Multi-modal Hashing with Canonical Views for Robust Mobile Landmark", IEEE Transactions on Multimedia 19(9): 2066-2079 (2017).
Litao Yu, Zi Huang, Fumin Shen, Jingkuan Song, Heng Tao Shen, Xiaofang Zhou, "Bilinear Optimized Product Quantization for Scalable Visual Content Analysis", IEEE Transactions on Image Processing 26(10): 5057-5069 (2017).
Lei Li, Wen Hua, Xingzhong Du, Xiaofang Zhou, "Minimal on Road Time Route Scheduling on Time-Dependent Graph", PVLDB 10(11): 1274-1285 (2017).
Junling Liu, Ke Deng, Huanliang Sun, Yu Ge, Xiaofang Zhou, Christian S. Jensen, "Clue-based Spatio-textual Query", PVLDB 10(5): 529-540 (2017).
Nguyen Quoc Viet Hung, Chi Thang Duong, Thanh Tam Nguyen, Matthias Weidlich, Karl Aberer, Hongzhi Yin, Xiaofang Zhou, "Argument discovery via crowdsourcing", VLDB Journal 26(4): 511-535 (2017)
Weiqing Wang, Hongzhi Yin, Ling Chen, Yihzou Sun, Shazia Sadiq, Xiaofang Zhou, "ST-SAGE: A Spatial-Temporal Sparse Additive Generative Model for Spatial Item Recommendation", ACM Transactions on Intelligent Systems and Technology 8(3): 48:1-25 (2017).
Binbin Gu, Zhixu Li, An Liu, Guanfeng Liu, Kai Zheng, Lei Zhao, Xiangliang Zhang, Xiaofang Zhou, "The Interaction between Schema Matching and Record Matching in Data Integration", IEEE Transactions on Knowledge and Data Engineering 29(1): 186-199 (2017).
Hongzhi Yin, Xiaofang Zhou, Bin Cui, Hao Wang, Kai Zheng, Quoc Viet Hung Nguyen, "Adapting to User Interest Drift for POI Recommendation", IEEE Transactions on Knowledge and Data Engineering 28(10): 2566-2581 (2016).
Henning Koehler, Uwe Leck, Sebastian Link, Xiaofang Zhou, "Possible and Certain Keys for SQL", VLDB Journal 25(4): 571-596 (2016).
Wen Hua, Zhongyuan Wang, Haixun Wang, Kai Zheng, Xiaofang Zhou, "Understand Short Texts by Harvesting and Analyzing Semantic Knowledge", IEEE Transactions on Knowledge and Data Engineering 29(3): 499-512 (2017).
Yuan Su, Xi Zhang, Philip S. Yu, Wen Hua, Xiaofang Zhou, Binxing Fang, "Understanding Information Diffusion under Interactions", IJCAI 2016: 3875-3881.
Ke Deng, Jianxin Li, Chaoyi Pang, Jiuyong Li, Xiaofang Zhou, "Access Time Oracle for Planar Graphs", IEEE Transactions on Knowledge and Data Engineering 28(8): 1959-1970 (2016).
Tieke He, Hongzhi Yin, Zhenyu Chen, Xiaofang Zhou, Shazia W. Sadiq, Bin Luo, "A Spatial-Temporal Topic Model for the Semantic Annotation of POIs in LBSNs", ACM Transactions on Intelligent Systems and Technology 8(1): 12:1-12:24 (2016).
Qing Xie, Xiangliang Zhang, Zhixu Li, Xiaofang Zhou, "Optimizing Cost of Continuous Overlapping Queries over Data Streams by Filter Adaption", IEEE Transactions on Knowledge and Data Engineering 28(5): 1258-1271 (2016).
Hongzhi Yin, Bin Cui, Xiaofang Zhou, Weiqing Wang, Zi Huang, Shazia Sadiq, "Joint Modeling of User Check-in Behaviors for Real-time Point-of-Interest Recommendation", ACM Transactions on Information Systems 35(2): 11:1-11:44 (2016).
Hongzhi Yin, Zhiting Hu, Xiaofang Zhou, Hao Wang, Kai Zheng, Shazia Sadiq, "Discovering Interpretable Geo-Social Communities for User Behavior Prediction", ICDE 2016: 942-953.
Weiqing Wang, Hongzhi Yin, Shazia Sadiq, Ling Chen, Min Xie and Xiaofang Zhou, "SPORE: A Sequential Personalized Spatial Item Recommender System", ICDE 2016: 954-965.
Bolong Zheng, Kai Zheng, Xiaokui Xiao, Han Su, Xiaofang Zhou, Guohui Li, "Keyword-Aware Continuous kNN Query on Road Networks", ICDE 2016: 871-882.
Xiaojun Chang, Feiping Nie, Sen Wang, Yi Yang, Xiaofang Zhou, Chengqi Zhang, "Compound Rank-k Projections for Bilinear Analysis", IEEE Transactions on Neural Networks and Learning Systems 27(7): 1502-1513 (2016).
Wen-Yuan Zhu, Wen-Chih Peng, Ling-Jyh Chen, Kai Zheng, Xiaofang Zhou, "Modeling User Mobility for Location Promotion in Location-based Social Networks", SIGKDD 2015: 1573-1582.
Weiqing Wang, Hongzhi Yin, Ling Chen, Yizhou Sun, Shazia Sadiq, Xiaofang Zhou, "Geo-SAGE: A Geographical Sparse Additive Generative Model for Spatial Item Recommendation", SIGKDD 2015: 1255-1264.
Henning Koehler, Sebastian Link, Xiaofang Zhou, "Possible and Certain SQL Key", PVLDB 8(11): 1118-1129 (2015).
Wen Hua, Kai Zheng, Xiaofang Zhou, "Microblog Entity Linking with Social Temporal Context", SIGMOD 2015: 1761-1775.
Zhixu Li, Lu Qin, Hong Cheng, Xiangliang Zhang, Xiaofang Zhou, "TRIP: An Interactive Retrieving-Inferring Data Imputation Approach", IEEE Transactions on Knowledge and Data Engineering 27(9): 2550-2563 (2015).
Fuzheng Zhang, Kai Zheng, Nicholas Jing Yuan, Xing Xie, Enhong Chen, Xiaofang Zhou, "A Novelty-Seeking based Dining Recommender System", WWW 2015: 1362-1372.
Hongzhi Yin, Bin Cui, Ling Chen, Zhiting Hu, Xiaofang Zhou, "Dynamic User Modeling in Social Media Systems", ACM Transactions on Information Systems 33(3): 10:1-10:44 (2015).
Han Su, Kai Zheng, Kai Zeng, Jiamin Huang, Shazia Sadiq, Nicholas Jing Yuan, Xiaofang Zhou, "Making Sense of Trajectory Data: A Partition-and-Summarization Approach", ICDE 2015: 963-974.
Guanfeng Liu, Kai Zheng, Yan Wang, Mehmet A. Orgun, An Liu, Lei Zhao, Xiaofang Zhou, "Multi-Constrained Graph Pattern Matching in Large-Scale Contextual Social Graphs", ICDE 2015: 351-362.
Bolong Zheng, Nicholas Jing Yuan, Kai Zheng, Xing Xie, Shazia Sadiq, Xiaofang Zhou, "Approximate Keyword Search in Semantic Trajectory Database", ICDE 2015: 975-986.
Kai Zheng, Han Su, Bolong Zheng, Shuo Shang, Jiajie Xu, Jiajun Liu, Xiaofang Zhou, "Interactive Top-k Spatial Keyword Queries", ICDE 2015: 423-434.
An Liu, Kai Zheng, Lu Li, Guanfeng Liu, Lei Zhao, Xiaofang Zhou, "Efficient Secure Similarity Computation on Encrypted Trajectory Data", ICDE 2015: 66-77.
Xiaojun Chang, Feiping Nie, Zhigang Ma, Yi Yang, Xiaofang Zhou, "A Convex Formulation for Spectral Shrunk Clustering", AAAI 2015: 2532-2538.
Yahong Han, Yi Yang, Yan Yan, Zhigang Ma, Nicu Sebe, Xiaofang Zhou, "Semisupervised Feature Selection via Spline Regression for Video Semantic Recognition", IEEE Transactions on Neural Networks and Learning Systems 26(2): 252-264 (2015).
Ke Deng, Xin Li, Jiaheng Lu, X. Zhou, "Best Keyword Cover Search", IEEE Transactions on Knowledge and Data Engineering 27(1): 61-73 (2015).
Qing Xie, Chaoyi Pang, Xiaofang Zhou, Xiangliang Zhang, Ke Deng, "Maximum Error-bound Piecewise Linear Representation for Online Stream Approximation", VLDB Journal 23(6): 915-937 (2014).
Yahong Han, Xingxing Wei, Xiaochun Cao, Yi Yang, Xiaofang Zhou, "Augmenting Image Descriptions Using Structured Prediction Output", IEEE Transactions on Multimedia 16(6): 1665-1676 (2014).
Zhixu Li, Mohamed Sharaf, Laurianne Sitbon, Xiaoyong Du, Xiaofang Zhou, "CoRE: A Context-Aware Relation Extraction Method for Relation Completion", IEEE Transactions on Data and Knowledge Engineering 26(4): 836-849 (2014).
Shuo Shang, Ruogu Ding, Kai Zheng, Christian S. Jensen, Panos Kalnis, Xiaofang Zhou, "Personalized Trajectory Matching in Spatial Networks", VLDB Journal 23(3): 449-468 (2014).
Biao Qin, Shan Wang, Xiaofang Zhou, Xiaoyong Du, "Responsibility Analysis for Lineages of Conjunctive Queries with Inequalities", IEEE Transactions on Data and Knowledge Engineering 26(6): 1532-1543 (2014).
Han Su, Kai Zheng, Jiamin Huang, Hoyoung Jeung, Lei Chen, Xiaofang Zhou, "CrowdPlanner: A Crowd-Based Route Recommendation System", ICDE 2014: 1144-1155.
Kai Zheng, Yu Zheng, Nicholas Jing Yuan, Shuo Shang, Xiaofang Zhou, "Online Discovery of Gathering Patterns over Trajectories", IEEE Transactions on Data and Knowledge Engineering 26 (8), 1974-1988 (2014).
Zechao Li, Jing Liu, Yi Yang, Xiaofang Zhou, Hanqing Lu, "Clustering-Guided Sparse Structural Learning for Unsupervised Feature Selection", IEEE Transactions on Data and Knowledge Engineering 26(9): 2138-2150 (2014).
Chenqiang Gao, Deyu Meng, Yi Yang, Yongtao Wang, Xiaofang Zhou, Alexander G. Hauptmann, "Infrared Patch-image Model for Small Target Detection in a Single Image", IEEE Transactions on Image Processing 22(12): 4996-5009 (2013).
Han Su, Kai Zheng, Haozhou Wang, Jiamin Huang, Xiaofang Zhou, "Calibrating Trajectory Data for Similarity-based Analysis", SIGMOD 2013: 833-844.
Yahong Han, Yi Yang, Xiaofang Zhou, "Co-Regularized Ensemble for Feature Selection", IJCAI 2013: 1380-1386.
Zhixu Li, Laurianne Sitbon, Liwei Wang, Xiaofang Zhou, Xiaoyong Du, "AML: Efficient Approximate Membership Localization within a Web-Based Join Framework", IEEE Transactions on Knowledge and Data Engineering, 25(2):298-310 (2013).
Chaoyi Pang, Qing Zhang, Xiaofang Zhou, David P. Hansen, Sen Wang, Anthony J. Maeder, "Computing Unrestricted Synopses under Maximum Error Bound", Algorithmica 65(1):1-42 (2013).
Yang Yang, Yi Yang, Heng Tao Shen, Yanchun Zhang, Xiaoyong Du, Xiaofang Zhou, "Discriminative Nonnegative Spectral Clustering with Out-of-Sample Extension", IEEE Transactions on Data and Knowledge Engineering 25(8): 1760-1771 (2013).
Kexin Xie, Ke Deng, Shuo Shang, Kevin Zheng, Xiaofang Zhou, "Finding Alternative Shortest Paths in Spatial Networks", ACM Transactions on Database Systems 37(4):29:1-31 (2012).
Xiangmin Zhou, Lei Chen, Xiaofang Zhou, "Structure Tensor Series-based Large Scale Near-Duplicate Video Retrieval", IEEE Transactions on Multimedia 14(4):1220-1233 (2012).
Kai Zheng, Zi Huang, Aoying Zhou, Xiaofang Zhou, "Discovering the Most Influential Sites Over Uncertain Data: A Rank Based Approach", IEEE Transactions on Knowledge and Data Engineering 24(12):2156-2169 (2012).
Ke Deng, Shazia Wasim Sadiq, Xiaofang Zhou, Hu Xu, Gabriel Pui Cheong Fung, Yansheng Lu, "On Group Nearest Group Query Processing", IEEE Transactions on Knowledge and Data Engineering 24(2):295-308 (2012).
Zechao Li, Yi Yang, Jing Liu, Xiaofang Zhou, Hanqing Lu, "Unsupervised Feature Selection Using Nonnegative Spectral Analysis", AAAI 2012: 1026-1032.\
Kai Zheng, Xiaofang Zhou, Pui Cheong Fung, Kexin Xie, "Spatial Query Processing for Fuzzy Objects", VLDB Journal 21(5):729-751 (2012).
Kai Zheng, Yu Zheng, Xing Xie, Xing Zhou, "Reducing Uncertainty of Low-Sampling-Rate Trajectories", ICDE 2012: 1144-1155.
Minqi Zhou, Heng Tao Shen, Xiaofang Zhou, Weining Qian, Aoying Zhou, "Effective Data Density Estimation in Ring-based P2P Networks", ICDE 2012: 594-605.
Xiangmin Zhou, Xiaofang Zhou, Lei Chen, Athman Bouguettaya, "Efficient Subsequence Matching Over Large Video Databases", VLDB Journal 21(4):489-508 (2012).
Yi Yang, Heng Tao Shen, Feiping Nie, Rongrong Ji, Xiaofang Zhou, "Nonnegative Spectral Clustering with Discriminative Regularization", AAAI 2011: 555-560.
Yi Yang, Heng Tao Shen, Zhigang Ma, Zi Huang, Xiaofang Zho, "L2,1-Norm Regularized Discriminative Feature Selection for Unsupervised Learning", IJCAI 2011: 1589-1594.
Henning Koehler, Jing Yang, Xiaofang Zhou, "Efficient Parallel Skyline Processing using Hyperplane Projections", SIGMOD 2011: 85-96.
Zi Huang, Heng Tao Shen, Jiajun Liu, Xiaofang Zhou, "Effective Data Co-Reduction for Multimedia Similarity Search", SIGMOD 2011: 1021-1032.
Yi Luo, Wei Wang, Xuemin Lin, Xiaofang Zhou, Jianmin Wang, Keqiu Li, "SPARK2: Effective and Efficient Keyword Search on Relational Databases", IEEE Transactions on Knowledge and Data Engineering 23(12):1763-1780 (2011).
Kai Zheng, Goce Trajcevski, Xiaofang Zhou, Peter Scheuermann, "Probabilistic Range Queries for Uncertain Trajectories on Road Networks", EDBT 2011: 283-294.
Zaiben Chen, Heng Tao Shen, Xiaofang Zhou, "Discovering Popular Routes from Trajectories", ICDE 2011: 900-911.
Jie Shao, Heng Tao Shen, Zi Huang, Xiaofang Zhou, "Exploring Distributional Discrepancy for Multi-dimensional Point Set Retrieval", IEEE Transactions on Multimedia 13(1): 71-81 (2011).
Zi Huang, Heng Tao Shen, Jie Shao, Bin Cui, Xiaofang Zhou, "Practical Online Near-duplicate Subsequence Detection for Continuous Video Streams", IEEE Transactions on Multimedia 12(5): 386-398 (2010).
Zi Huang, Bo Hu, Hong Cheng, Heng Tao Shen, Hongyan Liu, Xiaofang Zhou, "Mining Near-duplicate Graph for Cluster-based Re-ranking of Web Video Search Results", ACM Transactions on Information Systems 28(4): 22:1-27 (2010).
Guoliang Li, Jianhua Feng, Xaofang Zhou, Jianyong Wang, "Providing Built-in Keyword Search Capabilities in RDBMS", VLDB Journal 20(1): 1-19 (2011).
Hoyoung Jeung, Man Lung Yiu, Xiaofang Zhou, Christian S. Jensen, "Path Prediction and Predictive Range Querying in Road Network Databases", VLDB Journal 19(4):585-602 (2010).
Kai Zheng, Gabriel Pui Cheong Fung, Xiaofang Zhou, "K-Nearest Neighbor Search for Fuzzy Objects", SIGMOD 2010: 699-710.
Henning Koehler, Xiaofang Zhou, Shazia Sadiq, Yanfeng Shu, Kerry Taylor, "Sampling Dirty Data for Matching Attributes", SIGMOD 2010: 63-74.
Zaiben Chen, Heng Tao Shen, Xiaofang Zhou, Yu Zheng, Xing Xie, "Searching Trajectories by Locations - An Efficiency Study", SIGMOD 2010: 255-266.
Xiangmin Zhou, Xiaofang Zhou, Athman Bouguettaya, John A. Taylor, "Adaptive Subspace Symbolization for Content-based Video Search", IEEE Transactions on Knowledge and Data Engineering 22(10): 1372-1387 (2010).
Xiangmin Zhou, Xiaofang Zhou, Lei Chen, Athman Bouguettaya, Nong Xiao, John A. Taylor, "An Efficient Near-Duplicate Video Shot Detection Method Using Shot-Based Interest Points", IEEE Transactions on Multimedia 11(5): 879-891 (2009).
Zaiben Chen, Heng Tao Shen, Xiaofang Zhou, Jeffrey Xu Yu, "Monitoring Path Nearest Neighbor in Road Networks", SIGMOD 2009: 591-602.
Ying Zhang, Xuemin Lin, Yidong Yuan, Masaru Kitsuregawa, Xiaofang Zhou, Jeffrey Xu Yu, "Duplicate-insensitive Order Statistics Computation over Data Streams", IEEE Transactions on Knowledge and Data Engineering 22(4): 493-507 (2010).
Zaiben Chen, Heng Tao Shen, Quanqing Xu, Xiaofang Zhou, "Instant Advertising in Mobile Peer-to-Peer Networks", ICDE 2009: 736-747.
Zi Huang, Heng Tao Shen, Jie Shao, Xiaofang Zhou, Bin Cui, "Bounded Coordinate System Indexing for Real-time Video Clip Search", ACM Transactions on Information Systems 27 (3): 17:1-33 (2009).
Heng Tao Shen, Jie Shao, Zi Huang, Xiaofang Zhou, "Effective and Efficient Query Processing for Video Subsequence Identification", IEEE Transactions on Knowledge and Data Engineering 21(3):321-334 (2009).
Ke Deng, Xiaofang Zhou, Heng Tao Shen, Shazia W. Sadiq, Xue Li, "Instance Optimal Query Processing in Spatial Networks", VLDB Journal 18(3):675-693 (2009).
Zi Huang, Heng Tao Shen, Jie Shao, Stefan M. Rüger, Xiaofang Zhou, "Locality Condensation: A New Dimensionality Reduction Method for Image Retrieval", ACM Multimedia 2008: 219-228.
Jie Shao, Zi Huang, Heng Tao Shen, Jialie Shen, Xiaofang Zhou, "Distribution-based Similarity Measures for Multi-dimensional Point Set Retrieval Applications", ACM Multimedia 2008: 429-438.
Hoyoung Jeung, Man Lung Yiu, Xiaofang Zhou, Christian S. Jensen, Heng Tao Shen, "Discovery of Convoys in Trajectory Databases", PVLDB 2008: 1068-1080.
Heng Tao Shen, Shouxu Jiang, Kian-Lee Tan, Zi Huang, Xiaofang Zhou, "Speed Up Interactive Image Retrieval", VLDB Journal 18(1):329-344 (2009).
Hoyoung Jeung, Qing Liu, Heng Tao Shen, Xiaofang Zhou, "A Hybrid Prediction Model for Moving Objects", ICDE 2008: 70-79.
Jie Shao, Zi Huang, Heng Tao Shen, Xiaofang Zhou, Ee-Peng Lim, Yijun Li, "Batch Nearest Neighbor Search for Video Retrieval", IEEE Transactions on Multimedia 10(3):409-420 (2008).
Zi Huang, Heng Tao Shen, Xiaofang Zhou, "Localized Co-occurrence Model for Fast Approximate Search in Structure Databases”, IEEE Transactions on Knowledge and Data Engineering 20(4):519-531 (2008).
Yi Luo, Xuemin Lin, Wei Wang, Xiaofang Zhou, "SPARK: Top-k Keyword Query in Relational Databases", SIGMOD 2007: 115-126.
Ke Deng, Xiaofang Zhou, Heng Tao Shen, Qing Liu, Kai Xu, Xuemin Lin, "A Multi-resolution Surface Distribution Model for k-NN Query Processing", VLDB Journal 17(5):1101-1119 (2008).
Heng Tao Shen, Xiaofang Zhou, Aoying Zhou, "An Adaptive and Dynamic Dimensionality Reduction Method for High-dimensional Indexing", VLDB Journal 16(2): 219-234 (2007).
Ke Deng, Xiaofang Zhou, Heng Tao Shen, "Multi-source Skyline Query Processing in Road Networks", ICDE 2007: 796-805.
Kai Xu, Xiaofang Zhou, Xuemin Lin, Heng Tao Shen, Ke Deng, "A Multiresolution Terrain Model for Efficient Visualization Query Processing", IEEE Transactions on Data and Knowledge Engineering 18(10):1382-1396 (2006).
Xuemin Lin, Qing Liu, Yidong Yuan, Xiaofang Zhou, Hongjun Lu, "Summarizing Level-Two Topological Relations in Large Spatial Datasets", ACM Transactions on Database Systems 31(2):584-630 (2006).
Xuemin Lin, Jian Xu, Qing Zhang, Hongjun Lu, Jeffrey Xu Yu, Xiaofang Zhou, Yidong Yuan, "Approximate Processing of Massive Continuous Quantile Queries over High Speed Data Streams", IEEE Transactions on Data and Knowledge Engineering 18(5):683-698 (2006).
Ke Deng, Xiaofang Zhou, Heng Tao Shen, Kai Xu, Xuemin Lin, "Surface kNN Query Processing", ICDE 2006: 78.
Heng Tao Shen, Beng Chin Ooi, Xiaofang Zhou, Zi Huang, "Towards Effective Indexing for Large Video Sequence Data", SIGMOD 2005: 730-741.
Kai Xu, Xiaofang Zhou, Xuemin Lin, "Direct Mesh: A Multiresolution Approach to Terrain Visualization", ICDE 2004: 766-776.
Xuemin Lin, Qing Liu, Yidong Yuan, Xiaofang Zhou, "Multiscale Histograms: Summarizing Topological Relations in Large Spatial Datasets", VLDB 2003: 814-825.

Current Grants: more grants and research projects

[ARC Industrial Transformation Training Centres $4.88M from ARC + $9M from partners] ARC Training Centre for Information Resilience, 2020 - 2025.
[ARC Discovery Project $493K] Making Spatiotemporal Data More Useful: An Entity Linking Approach, 2020-2022.
[ARC Linkage Project, $330K] Real-time Analytics on Urban Trajectory Data for Road Traffic Management, 2019-2022.
[Advance Queensland Platform Technology Program, $5.4M] Redback Smart Monitoring Platform, 2018 -2023.
[UQ Strategic Funding, $1.7M] Transport and Population Research Network, 2017 - 2021.
[ARC Discovery Project $352K] Managing Data with High Redundency and Low Value Density, 2017-2019.
[ARC Discovery Project $510K] Indexing Large Video Databases to Support Efficient Query Processing, 2015-2017.
[ARC Linkage Infrastructure, equipment and Facilities Project $1M] FlashLite: a high performance machine for data intensive science, 2014.
[ARC Discovery Project $452K] Declaration, Exploration, Enhancement and Provenance: The DEEP Approach to Data Quality Management Systems, 2014-2016.
[ARC Linkage Project $660K] In-memory Moving Objects Analytics for Real-time Business Applications, 2013 - 2016.
[UniQuest First Link $4.5K] In-memory Mobile Data Analytics for Real-time Enterprise Applications, 2012
[ARC Discovery Project $330K] Detection of Location Significance from Quality Enhanced Trajectory Data, 2012-2014.
[ARC Discovery Project $300K] Making Sense of Trajectory Data: a Database Approach, 2011-2013.
[UQ Vice Chancellor's Strategic Fund $640K] Managing Data Quality in Next Generation Information Infrastructure, 2009-2013.
[Microsoft Research Asia Internet Services Award $23K] Mining Location Association Patterns Between Web Queries and Documents, 2009.
[ARC Discovery Project $340K] Analyzing Uncertain Data: Probabilistic Approaches, 2009-2011.
[ARC Linkage Project $360K] Enhancement, Integration and Access Services for Smarter, Collaborative and Adaptive Whole-of-Water-Cycle Management, 2008 - 2010.
[CSIRO Flagship Program $189K] Query Feedback Based Integration of Distributed Scientific Data Sources, 2008 - 2009.
[ARC Centre $3.3M] ARC Centre of Excellence in Bioinformatics (ACB), 2008-2010 (extension and upgrade to ARC Centre for Bioinformatics).
[ARC Discovery Project $210K] Efficient Similarity Query Processing in High Dimensional Databases, 2006-2008.
[ARC Discovery Project $310K] Computing Order Statistics over Data Streams, 2006-2008.
[ARC Research Network $3.2M] ARC Research Network in Enterprise Information Infrastructure (EII), 2004-2009.

Some Professional Activities: more conferences

[General Co-Chair] MDM 2018.
[PC Co-Chair] SSTD 2017.
[General Co-Chair] APWeb 2016.
[PC Co-Chair] BigComp 2016.
[General Co-Chair] The 23rd Anniversary ACM Multimedia Conference (ACM Multimedia 2015), November 2015, Brisbane, Australia.
[PC Group Leader] SIGMOD 2015.
[PC Co-Chair] DASFAA 2015.
[PC Co-Chair] The 29th International Conference on Data Engineering (ICDE 2013), 8-12 April 2013, Brisbane, Australia.
[PC Co-Chair] The 20th International Conference on Cooperative Information Systems (CoopIS 2012), Sept 2012, Roma, Italy.
[PC Co-Chair] The 23rd International Conference on Database and Expert Systems Applications (DEXA 2012), 2012.
[PC Co-Chair] The 17th International Conference on Database Systems for Advanced Applications (DASFAA 2012), 15-18 April 2012, Busan, Korea.
[PC Member] ACM Multimedia 2011, November 2011, Arizona, USA.
[PC Co-Chair] The 22nd International Conference on Database and Expert Systems Applications (DEXA 2011), August 29 - September 2, 2011, Toulouse, France.
[PhD Symposium Co-Chair] The 20th International World Wide Web Conference (WWW 2011), 28 March - 1 April 2011, Hyderabad, India.
[PhD Program Co-Chair] The 36th International Conference on Very Large Databases (VLDB 2010), 13-17 Sept 2010, Singapore.
[General Chair] International Workshop on Location Based Social Networks (LBSN'09 and LBSN'10), in conjunction with The 17th/18th ACM SIGSPATIAL International Conference on Advances in Geographic Information Systems, 4-6 Nov, 2009, Seattle, USA.
[General Co-Chair] The 12th Asia Pacific Web Conference (APWeb 2010), to be held in 6-8 April 2010, Busan, Korea.
[PC Co-Chair] The 14th International Conference on Database Systems for Advanced Applications (DASFAA 2009), April 2009, Brisbane, Australia.
[PC Member] The 26th International Conference on Data Engineering (ICDE 2010), April 2010, LA, USA.
[PC Member] The 35th International Conference on Very Large Databases (VLDB 2009), 24-28 August 2009, Lyons, France.
[PC Member] The 18th International World Wide Web Conference (WWW 2009), 20-24 April 2009, Madrid, Spain.
[PC Member] The 29th ACM SIGMOD International Conference on Management of Data (SIGMOD 2009), June 2009, Rhode Island, USA.
[Vice PC Chair] The 25th International Conference on Data Engineering (ICDE 2009), March 2009, Shanghai, China.
[Tutorial Chair and PC Member] The 34th International Conference on Very Large Databases (VLDB 2008), 24-30 August 2008, Auckland, New Zealand.
[PC Member] The 28th ACM SIGMOD International Conference on Management of Data (SIGMOD 2008), Vancouver, Canada.
[PC Member] The 17th International World Wide Web Conference (WWW 2008), 21-25 April 2008, Beijing, China.
[PC Member] The 27th ACM SIGMOD International Conference on Management of Data (SIGMOD 2007), June 2007, Beijing, China.
[PC Member] The 24th International Conference on Data Engineering (ICDE 2007), April 17-20, 2007, Istanbul, Turkey.
[Workshop Chair and PC Member] The 23rd International Conference on Data Engineering (ICDE 2006), April 3-7, 2006, Atlanta, USA.
[PC Member] The15th International Conference on World Wide Web (WWW 2006), May 23-26, 2006, Edinburgh, UK.
[PC Member] The 10th International Conference on Extending DataBase Technology (EDBT 2006), 27-31 March, 2006, Munich, Germany.
[PC Member] The 26th IEEE International Conference on Distributed Computing Systems (ICDCS 2006), July 4-7, 2006, Lisbon, Portugal.
[Demo Chair and PC Member] The 22nd International Conference on Data Engineering (ICDE 2005), April 5-8, 2005, Tokyo, Japan.