Research Projects

Note: Venues highlighting in red (e.g., SIGMOD) are considered premium platforms in their respective computing fields.

CURRENT RESEARCH PROJECTS

Human-Data Interaction

Project	Description	Funding Source	Representative Publications
HINT	Towards Human Interaction with Network DaTa	MOE Tier 1, MOE Tier 2	SIGMOD [10,11, 13, 17, 18, 19, 20, 21, 22, 23], CIDR [13], VLDBJ [13, 17, 20], CACM [23], ICDE [19,15,12,09,06], CIKM [15], VLDB [16, 17, 21, 26], TKDE [17, 22]
ARTIST	Abstract ART Inspired ViSualization of DaTa	—	SIGIR [19], ACM MM [21], TCDE Bulletin [25]
PIANO	Psychology-Informed DAta-ceNtric COmputing	RSS, MOE Tier 1	SIGIR [25], WWW [24], SIGMOD [25, 24, 23, 20], EDBT [23], TCDE Bulletin [25]

Data Management & Analytics

Logo	Project	Description	Funding Source	Representative Publications
	GREASE	GRaph QuErying and Analytics on a Single MachinE	MOE Tier 2	VLDB [25,21,20,18], VLDB J [23, 17], SIGMOD [23, 20, 19,16], SIGMOD Record [22], ICDE [21,20,15], TKDE [24,20,15,14,12], TSC [13], CIKM [19,12]
	TRUSS	Technology-enabled LeaRning of QUery ProceSSing	MOE Tier 1	SIGCSE TS [25], SIGMOD [26, 23, 22, 21, 19], VLDB [26, 22], TCDE Bulletin [22], DataSysEd [23]

Data Science

Logo	Project	Description	Funding Source	Representative Publications
	DARE	DAta-driven Review ManagEment	ACM SIGMOD, VLDB	CACM [23], ACM SIGMOD Blog [21], SIGMOD Record [26, 25, 24, 23, 22], SIGMOD [22 (Panel), 18], CIKM [17]
	INGOT	Towards IN Silico Graph-driven COmbination Therapy	MOE Tier 2, MOE Tier 1, SMA-CSB	Bioinformatics [15, 17], Methods [17], ACM BCB [11, 12, 14, 16, 17, 22, 24], ICDM [16], SIGHIT [12], BigComp [14]

Human-Data Interaction

Psychology-AwarE SociaL InfLuence Analysis

ROAR

SIGMOD [15], VLDBJ [14], EDBT [13], CIKM [11]

Data Analytics

SODA	Summarization Of COmplex-structured DAta	SMA-CSB	BCB [11], SIGHIT [12], BMC Bioinfo [12], SIGIR [14, 17], JASIST [19], WWW [14], Methods [14], TKDE [16], VLDB [15, 17], Springer-Verlag [17]
PANORAMA	IncomPlete BiologicAl NetwORk Alignment and SumMArization	SMA-CSB	BCB [11], SIGHIT [12], BMC Bioinfo [12], Bioinformatics [12, 14], Methods [14], TKDE [16], ICDM [16], Springer-Verlag [17]
iMASON	Influence-driven Multi-level Analysis of SOcial Networks	ROAR	TCSS [22], SIGMOD [14], VLDBJ [14], EDBT [13], DMKD [13], CIKM [09, 10], JASIST [11]
TREASURE-MINER	Mining Evolution of Trees and Graphs	RSS	CIKM [04, 05, 08], KDD [06], WWW [06,07], VLDB [09], ICDE [11], DASFAA [09, 06, 04], PAKDD [06, 04]

Data Management

SIERRA	Social ImagE SeaRch and Results Analytics	—	VLDB [15], SIGIR [14,18], WWW [12,14], ICMR [12], MM [10, 11, 13], VLDB [10], JASIST [11]
QUARKS	High QUAlity, IRregularity-conscious Keyword Search	—	SIGIR [17], SIGMOD [24,13]
XMorph	A (Shape) Polymorphic XML Query System	—	ICDE [10], VLDB [10], ICDE [12], SIGMOD [14], VLDB [15]
XCALIBUR	XPath Processor on Commercial Relational Databases Having Tree-Unaware Kernel	RSS	VLDBJ [12], DKE [13, 06], DASFAA [12,11,07], CIKM [09,07], ER [04]
XANADUE	XML Change Management in Relational Databases having Tree-Unaware Kernel	RSS	SIGMOD [07], DKE [07,06], ER [06], CIKM [05], DASFAA [05,06, 04]
DEMON	Deep Web QuErying and MONitoring	RSS	ICDE [11], DKE [05]
XEDI	XML SchEma and Data Integration Framework	—	DKE [08], ER [03], DEXA [02]
WHOWEDA	A Warehousing System for Web Data	—	TKDE [03], ICDCS [00], ER [98], DKE [01, 02, 03]

Computational Systems Biology

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Mathematical Model of Activation of TGF-beta1 with Application to Liver Fibrosis

SMA-CSB

BioPhyJ [11, 12], PSB [10], ADDR J [10]