Database Technology for Advanced Applications - Database research activities in Northeastern University, China

Speaker:	Prof. Ge YU
		Professor and Associated Dean
		School of Information Science and Engineering
		Northeastern University of China

Title:		"Database Technology for Advanced Applications -
		Database research activities in Northeastern
		University, China"

Date:		Friday, 10 February 2006

Time:		4:00pm - 4:40pm

Venue:		Lecture Theatre H
		(Chen Kuan Cheng Forum, near lift nos. 27/28), HKUST


ABSTRACT:

The current research activities of  the database group of Northeastern
University will be introduced, including  sensor network database for
embedded applications, data stream management for real-time applications,
Web mining for next generation search engines, data privacy protection for
enterprise information sharing , etc. The research contents and the
progress of each research topic will be explained.



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Biography:

Ge YU received his B.E. degree and M.E degree from Northeastern
University, China in 1982 and 1986, respectively, Ph.D degree from Kyushu
University, Japan in 1996. He has been a professor at Northeastern
University of China since 1996. He is the associated dean of School of
Information Science and Engineering in charge of graduate study, the
director of Institute of Computer Software and Theory, the Chair Professor
of the 985 Innovation Platform for Computer Fields, at Northeastern
University.

He is the member of IEEE, ACM, IPSJ(Information Processing Society of
Japan), and the senior member of CCF(China Computer Federation). He is the
vice-chair of CCF Database Society, and the vice-chair of CCF Office
Automation Society. He is the member of the steering committee of WAIM
Conference. He served as the PC member for many international conferences
like ICDE 2002, WISE2005, ER2004, DASFAA 2005. His research interesting
includes data base theory and technology, distributed and parallel
information systems, embedded software, network information security. Ge
YU has published more than 130 papers on academic journals and well-known
conferences like ICDE, DASFAA, and TOIT. He has written 4 books and
translated 2 books in the recent 5 years. He has finished more than 10
research projects supported by the national foundation or the
international foundation since 1995. He has got more than 10 academic
awards from the Ministry of Education, the Ministry of Science and
Technology and the governments.