Ke Yi

EDUCATION

• Duke University, Durham, NC, USA, 09/2001 - 08/2006
  Ph.D. in Computer Science
  Advisors: Prof. Pankaj K. Agarwal and Prof. Lars Arge
• Tsinghua University, Beijing, China, 09/1997 - 07/2001
  B.E. in Computer Science

PROFESSIONAL EXPERIENCE

• 08/2007 - present: Assistant Professor, Department of Computer Science and Engineering, HKUST, Clear Water Bay, Kowloon, Hong Kong.
• 09/2006 - 07/2007: Postdoctoral Research Specialist, AT&T Labs - Research, Florham Park, NJ.
• 05/2002 - 08/2006: Research Assistant, Department of Computer Science, Duke University.
• 05/2004 - 08/2004: Summer intern, AT&T Labs - Research, Florham Park, NJ.
• 05/2003 - 08/2003: Summer intern, IBM T. J. Watson Research Center, Hawthorne, NY.
• 09/2002 - 05/2003: Teaching Assistant, Department of Computer Science, Duke University.

PUBLICATIONS

See my research page.

AWARDS

• Google Faculty Research Award, 2011.
• Outstanding Ph.D. Dissertation Award, Department of Computer Science, Duke University, August, 2006.
• TopCoder Collegiate Challenge 2003, top 16, April 2003.
• Graduate Fellowship, Duke University, September 2001.
• Tsinghua Top-Grade Scholarship, November 2000.
• Silver Medal in the 9th International Olympiad in Informatics (IOI '97), Cape Town, South Africa, December 1997.

STUDENTS ADVISING

• PhD students:
  • Ge Luo, 02/2010 - present.
  • Lu Wang, 09/2009 - present.
  • Zhewei Wei, 09/2008 - present.
  • Zengfeng Huang, 09/2008 - present.
  • Qin Zhang, 09/2007 - 07/2010 (co-advised with Mordecai Golin, now postdoc at MADALGO, University of Aarhus).
• MPhil students:
  • Ching-Hin Lau, 10/2007 - 08/2009 (First employment: Thomson Reuters).
  • Wenqi Zhu, 09/2007 - 08/2008 (First employment: Morgan Stanley).

PROFESSIONAL SERVICES

• Co-organizer: The First Shonan Meeting on Large-Scale Distributed Computation, 2012
• Program committees:
  • PODS: 2011.
  • ICDE: 2012, 2011, 2009, 2008.
  • ESA: 2012, 2007.
  • ACM GIS: 2011.
  • ISAAC: 2012, 2011.
  • ALENEX: 2011.
  • CIKM: 2011, 2010, 2009
  • SSTD: 2011, 2007.
  • DASFAA: 2012, 2009.
  • WAIM: 2010, 2009.
  • FAW-AAIM: 2012, 2011.
  • APWeb: 2009.
  • ICPADS: 2010.
  • VLDB PhD Workshop: 2010.
  • The Alberto Mendelzon International Workshop on Foundations of Data Management, 2012.
  • Workshop on Management and Mining of Uncertain Data (MOUND): 2010.
  • International Workshop on Ranking in Databases (DBRank): 2010, 2009.
  • International Workshop on Web Information and Data Management (WIDM): 2008.
• Activities co-chair, ACM Hong Kong Chapter, 2007 - 2009.
• Publication chair, ACM Hong Kong Student Research and Career Day, 2009.
• Local arrangement and system support, ACM Hong Kong Collegiate Programming Contest, 2009.
• Reviewer for conferences: STOC, FOCS, SODA, SoCG, SIGMOD, PODS, VLDB, SIGGRAPH, ESA, ICALP, ICDE, ICDT, SWAT, STACS, Visualization, ALENEX, WEA, SSTD, CIKM, DASFAA.
• Reviewer for journals: ACM Transactions on Algorithms, ACM Transactions on Database Systems, Algorithmica, Computational Geometry: Theory and Applications, The VLDB Journal, IEEE Transactions on Knowledge and Data Engineering, International Journal of Computational Geometry and Applications, Information Processing Letters, ACM Journal on Experimental Algorithmics, The Computer Journal, Distributed and Parallel Databases, Data and Knowledge Engineering.

SERVICES TO HKUST AND THE DEPARTMENT

• Coach, HKUST Programming Team, 2007 - present.
• Member, PG Committee, Department of Computer Science and Engineering, 2007 - present.