Instructors/Speakers
Prof. Raymond Chi-Wing WONG
The Hong Kong University of Science and Technology
Abstract
Nowadays, location-based services (LBSs), which refer to those services that are based on location (or spatial) data, are broadly used in our daily life. In this talk, we will talk about the recent development of LBSs. Some examples are “Search-nearby”, “Spatial Crowdsourcing”, “Trace Tracking” and “Shortest Distance”. We will focus on presenting some important results about shortest distance queries, one fundamental LBS, in the new context of the three-dimensional spatial database which receives a lot of attention from both the academic community and the industry community like Microsoft’s Bing Maps and Google Earth.
Biography
Raymond Chi-Wing Wong is an Associate Professor in Computer Science and Engineering (CSE) of The Hong Kong University of Science and Technology (HKUST). He was the director of the Computer Engineering (CPEG) program from 2014 to 2016 and was the associate director of the Computer Engineering (CPEG) program from 2012 to 2014. He received the BSc, MPhil and PhD degrees in Computer Science and Engineering in the Chinese University of Hong Kong (CUHK) in 2002, 2004 and 2008, respectively. In 2004-2005, he worked as a research and development assistant under an R&D project funded by ITF and a local industrial company called Lifewood.
He received 28 awards. He published 54 conference papers (e.g., SIGMOD, SIGKDD, VLDB, ICDE and ICDM), 23 journal/chapter papers (e.g., TODS, DAMI, TKDE, VLDB journal and TKDD) and 1 book. He reviewed papers from conferences and journals related to data mining and database, including VLDB conference, SIGMOD, TODS, VLDB Journal, TKDE, TKDD, ICDE, SIGKDD, ICDM, DAMI, DaWaK, PAKDD, EDBT and IJDWM. He is a program committee member of conferences, including SIGMOD, VLDB, ICDE, KDD, ICDM and SDM, and a referee of journals, including TODS, VLDBJ, TKDE, TKDD, DAMI and KAIS.