Nikos Mamoulis Honorary Professor Department of Computer Science University of Hong Kong Pokfulam Road Hong Kong E-mail: nikos@cs.hku.hk

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I received my diploma in Computer Engineering from the Computer Engineering and Informatics Department, University of Patras, Greece, in 1995 and my PhD from the Computer Science Department, HKUST in 2000. Before joining HKU in 2001, I was a post-doctoral researcher at the Dutch national center for Mathematics and Computer Science (CWI). During 2008-09, I was on sabbatical leave to the Max Planck Institute for Informatics.

Research interests

Management and mining of complex data types including spatial, spatio-temporal, time-series, and text data; privacy and security in databases; uncertain data management.

Publications

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Research grants and awards

2002-2005: Storage schemes and search algorithms for high dimensional data, HKU 7380/02E (from Hong Kong RGC)
2003-2005: Evaluation of Proximity Queries over Spatial Road Networks, HKU 7149/03E (from Hong Kong RGC)
2004-2006: Periodicity of movement in spatiotemporal databases, HKU 7142/04E (from Hong Kong RGC)
2006-2008: Continuous Constraint Query Evaluation for Spatio-temporal Data Sequences, HKU 7160/05E (from Hong Kong RGC)
2007-2009: Evaluation of Advanced Spatial Queries in Sensor Networks, HKU 7155/06E (from Hong Kong RGC)
2008-2010: Top-k Dominating Queries on Multi-dimensional Data, HKU 714907E (from Hong Kong RGC)
2009-2011: Privacy Preservation in the Publication of Data Sequences, HKU 715108E (from Hong Kong RGC)
2010-2012: Algorithms for Large-Scale Matching Problems, HKU 715509E (from Hong Kong RGC)
2011-2014: Durable Queries in Temporal and Spatio-temporal Databases, HKU 715711E (from Hong Kong RGC)
2012-2015: Spatio-textual Joins, HKU 714712E (from Hong Kong RGC)
2013-2016: Efficient Management of Geosocial Data, HKU 715413E (from Hong Kong RGC)
2015-2018: Efficient Management of Spatial Semantics in RDF Knowledge Bases, 17205814 (from Hong Kong RGC)

Outstanding Young Researcher Award 2008-2009, University of Hong Kong

Best Paper Award @ SSTD 2015

Professional activities

Regular reviewer for journals: ACM TODS, IEEE TKDE, VLDB Journal, ACM TKDD, ACM TOIT, ACM TWEB, ACM TSAS, Information Systems, Information Sciences, International Journal of GIS, Geoinformatica, KAIS, ACM Transactions on Algorithms, Theoretical Computer Science, Pattern Analysis and Applications Journal, Communications of ACM, etc.

Program Committee memberships:
2018: SIGMOD, VLDB
2017: ICDE, SIGMOD, KDD, DASFAA, PAKDD (Senior PC member), SSTD, VLDB
2016: ICDE, SIGMOD, KDD, PAKDD (Senior PC member), GeoRich@SIGMOD, VLDB, CIKM
2015: ICDE, EDBT, SIGMOD, KDD, PAKDD (Senior PC member), CIKM (PC vice chair), DASFAA (Senior PC member), GeoRich@SIGMOD, SSTD, LocalRec@RecSys
2014: ICDE (Track Chair), SIGMOD, VLDB, KDD, SSDBM, CIKM (PC vice chair), PAKDD (Senior PC member), DASFAA
2013: ICDE, SIGMOD (Demo Track), SDM, ACM GIS, KDD, CIKM, SSTD, MDM, PAKDD (Senior PC member), DASFAA, DBRank@ICDE
2012: ICDE, KDD (Senior PC member), ACM GIS (Senior PC member), DEXA, HDMS, DASFAA, CIKM, DBRank@ICDE, HDMS, ASONAM
2011: EDBT, DASFAA, VLDB, MDM, SSTD, SIGMOD (demo track), DEXA, LBSN@GIS, DBRank@ICDE, ACM GIS, CIKM, MEDI, HDMS
2010: ICDE, SIGMOD, MDM, DEXA, DASFAA, SBBD, LBSN@GIS, CIKM, ICDM
2009: EDBT, ICDE, VLDB, SBBD, DASFAA, MDM, DEXA, SDM, PPDA, ADBIS, ASONAM, ICDM, COMAD, ACM GIS, CIKM (PC vice chair)
2008: ICDE, DBRank@ICDE, MDM, IADIS ECDM, DaWaK, KDD, HDMS, IDEAS, ACM GIS, ICDM (PC vice chair)
2007: ICDE, DBRank, STDM, MDM, IADIS ECDM, DaWaK, SSTDM-VAM, HPDMA, KDD, SSTD, HDMS, ECML/PKDD, VLDB, ADBIS, ACM GIS, IDEAS, ICDM (PC vice chair), DUNE, SSTDM
2006: WAIM, DaWaK, KDD, VLDB, HDMS, CIKM, ICDM
2005: ICDE, ICDM, COMAD 2005b,
2004: ACM GIS, HDMS, ICDM
2003: SSDBM

Conference Organization:
PC chair of the 12th Hellenic Data Management Symposium (HDMS 2014)
Demonstrations co-chair of the IEEE International Conference on Data Mining (ICDM 2014)
PC co-Chair of the 19th International Conference on Management of Data (COMAD 2013)
Tutorials co-Chair of the 27th International Conference on Data Engineering (ICDE 2011)
PC co-Chair of the ICDE 2010 PhD Workshop
PC co-Chair of the Eleventh International Symposium on Spatial and Temporal Databases (SSTD 2009)
Co-organizer of the Third International Workshop on Ranking in Databases (DBRank 2009)
Publicity Chair of the 25th International Conference on Data Engineering (ICDE 2009)
General Chair of the 20th International Conference on Scientific and Statistical Database Management (SSDBM 2008)
Co-organizer of the 1^st International Workshop on Spatial and Spatio-temporal Data Mining (SSTDM06).

Editorial Service:
Knowledge and Information Systems, An International Journal, Associate Editor, 2015-.
The VLDB Journal, Associate Editor, 2011-.
IEEE Transactions on Knowledge and Data Engineering (TKDE), Associate Editor, 2010-2014.
Proceedings of the VLDB Endowment (PVLDB), Associate Editor, 2013.
Geoinformatica Journal (Springer), Editorial Board Member, 2007- .
Encyclopedia of Geographic Information Systems, Field editor, 2008.

Graduate students

Current

LIU Yu, PhD student
LI Hui, PhD student
HUANG Zhipeng, PhD student
QIAN Yuqui, PhD student
SHAN Caihua, PhD student
DING Danhao, PhD student

Graduated

LU Ziyu, PhD graduated 2016
QI Shuyao, PhD graduated 2016
TU Wenting, PhD graduated 2016
SHI Jieming, PhD graduated 2015, now at Lenovo Big Data Lab
CAI Yilun, PhD graduated 2015, now at Lenovo Big Data Lab
WANG Hao, PhD, graduated 2014, now Lecturer at Nanjing University
GE Shen, PhD, graduated 2012, now at Microsoft Beijing
LI Jing, PhD, graduated 2012, now at Morgan Stanley
ZHANG Shiming (Simon), PhD, graduated 2011, now at Huawei's Noah's Ark Lab
U Leong Hou (Kamiru) , PhD, graduated 2010, now assistant professor at University of Macau
Panagiotis Karras, PhD, graduated 2007, assistant professor at Skoltech
CAO Huiping, PhD, graduated 2006, now assistant professor at New Mexico State University
YIU Man Lung (Ken), PhD, graduated 2006, now assistant professor at Hong Kong Polytechnic University
LI Hui, MPhil graduated 2015
TANG Yu, MPhil, graduated 2014
YU Wei, MPhil, graduated 2013
ZHANG Ye, MPhil, graduated 2010
LIN Zhifeng (Arthur), MPhil, graduated 2009
SIU Wing Yan (Angela), MPhil, graduated 2008
TAM Ming Wai, MPhil, graduated 2008
DAI Xiangyuan, MPhil, graduated 2006
CHENG Kit Hung (David), MPhil, graduated 2005

Post-docs

George Fakas, Jan. 2014 - Sep. 2014
Dingming Wu, since Sep. 2013
Panagiotis Bouros, 2011 - 2013
Reza Sherkat, 2009 - 2012
Yin Yang, 2010 - 2011
Manolis Terrovitis, 2007 - 2008

Teaching

CSIS0278: Introduction to Database Management Systems (fall 2001, fall 2003, fall 2006, spring 2008, spring 2010, spring 2011, spring 2012, spring 2013)
CSIS7101: Advanced Database Technologies (fall 2002, spring 2004, summer 2005)
CSIS0323: Advanced Database Systems (spring 2003, spring 2005, spring 2006, spring 2007, spring 2008, spring 2014)
CSIS1119: Introduction to Data Structures and Algorithms (spring 2004)
CSIS8101: Advanced Topics in Data Engineering (fall 2005, fall 2006, spring 2012, spring 2014)
CSIS7103: Data Mining (spring 2006, spring 2012)
CSIS9101: Data Analysis and Machine Learning (spring 2010, spring 2011)