I am a 2nd year Ph.D. student in the Department of Computer Science and Engineering, The Hong Kong University of Science and Technology (HKUST). My advisor is Dr. Lei Chen. Before joining HKUST, I studied in the State Key Laboratory of Software Development Environment at Beihang University (BUAA). I received my Master degree in Software Engineering from Beihang University in China. In addition, I also received my Double Bachelor degree in Economics from China Centre for Economic Research (CCER) at Peking University.

• Frequent Pattern Mining,  Uncertain and Probabilistic Databases,  Graph Databases.

• Yongxin Tong, Lei Chen, Bolin Ding. "Discovering Threshold-based Frequent Closed Itemsets over Probabilistic Data", to appear in Proceedings of the 28th International Conference on Data Engineering, (ICDE 2012), Washington, DC, USA, April 1-5, 2012.


• Yongxin Tong, Yuanyuan Zhang, Mei Yuan, Shilong Ma, Dan Yu, Li Zhao. "An Efficient Algorithm for Mining Compressed Sequential Patterns", in Journal of Computer Research and Development, Volume47, No.1, pages 72-80, 2010. (in Chinese)
  -Selected as the Sa Shixuan Best Student Paper Award in the 26th National Database Conference (NDBC 2009).

• HKUST Research Travel Grant, HKUST, 2012.
• Excellent Master Dissertation Award, Beihang University, 2010.
• Tencent Technology Excellence Scholarship, Beihang University, 2009.
• Sa Shixuan Best Student Paper Award, NDBC2009 Conference, 2009.
• Best Paper Award, Graduate Student Academic Forum 2008, Beihang University, 2008.
• Third-Class Graduate Scholarship, Beihang University, 2008.

Teaching Experiences & Services

• Teaching Assistant Coordinator, Fall 2011 to Now, Hong Kong University of Science and Technology (HKUST).


• Teaching Assistant of Database Management Systems (COMP231), Spring 2011, Hong Kong University of Science and Technology (HKUST).
  -Undergraduate Level (Worked with Dr. Qiong Luo).


• Teaching Assistant of Computer Networks (COMP561), Fall 2010, Hong Kong University of Science and Technology (HKUST).
  -Graduate Level (Worked with Dr. Lin Gu).


• Teaching Assistant of Introduction to Data Mining, Spring 2009, Beihang University.
  -Graduate Level (Worked with Professor Ke Xu).


• Teaching Assistant of Introduction to Data Mining, Spring 2008, Beihang University.
  -Graduate Level (Worked with Professor Ke Xu).

Activities & Services

• Student member of ACM, IEEE and CCF
• External reviewer of PVLDB 2011, ICDM 2011, GIS 2011.
• Volunteer for WWW 2008.

• Student Lab Helper Recruitment: Fall 2011 | Spring 2012 |
• Useful Resources: Academic Calendar | R-Tree Portal |
• English Resources: VOA | 51VOA | BBC | SAC in HKUST |
• Friends' Links: Zhiyuan Cheng | Bolin Ding | Di Jiang | Xiang Lian | Weixiong Rao | Ming Shao | Shaoxu Song | Ke Xu | Haopeng Zhang |