Kenny Q. Zhu Distinguished Research Fellow (PhD. Advisor) Associate Professor Dept. of Computer Science & Engineering Shanghai Jiao Tong University

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Research

Current Research Projects (wiki)

• Probase: A Probabilitic Knowledge Base for Text Understanding
• PredicTV: A Dynamic TV Program Recommender System
• Inferring and Management of Movement Traces
• RICH-IP: A High-level Declarative Language for IP Core Synthesis
• GCC: A Language and System for Multi-agent Coordination (and Competition)

Past Research Projects

• Processing of Ad Hoc Data
• Gloves: distributed ad-hoc data processing system (PPDP'09)
• Pawk: a light-weight ad-hoc data processing system
• PADS/ML compiler and runtime infrastracture
• Open Constraint Programming (OCP): a coordination language and system for programming against knowledge bases (ICLP'05, Coord'07, thesis)
• RC-tree: an efficient spatial indexing technique (ICDE'06)
• Combinatorial optimization with applications in vehicle routing problems

My Talks and Presentations (2001 - )

• "LearnPADS++: An Incremental Inference Algorithm for Ad Hoc Data", PADL 2012, Philadelphia, PA, USA.
• "Data Processing: a Programming Language Perspective", invited talk at AWFS 2011.
• "From dirt to shovels: automatic tool generation from ad hoc data", invited talk at the Industrial Affiliates Day, Princeton. 09/17/2008.
• "LearnPADS: Automatic format inference from ad-hoc data", demo at SIGMOD 2008. (slides)
• "PADS: A Language and System for Processing Ad Hoc Data", invited talk at PL/Compiler visit day, Princeton University. 03/08/2008. (slides)
• "From dirt to shovels: automatic tool generation from ad hoc data", invited talk at IBM TJ Watson Research. 02/25/2008. (slides)
• "From dirt to shovels: automatic tool generation from ad hoc data", POPL 2008, San Francisco, CA. (slides)
• "From dirt to shovels", System lunch talk at Princeton CS department. 11/2007. (part1) and (part2 by David Walker)
• "Generalized Committed Choice", Coordination 2007. (slides)
• "Indexing of dynamic abstract regions", ICDE 2006. (slides)
• "Open constraint programming", invited talk at Singapore Management University. (slides)
• "Open constraint programming", PhD. defense talk. (slides)
• "Coordination of many agents", ICLP 2005. (slides)
• "Distributed DFS with greedy work stealing", ICTAI 2004. (poster)
• "Population diversity in permutation-based genetic algorithm", ECML 2004. (slides)
• "Empirical study of population diversity in permutation-based genetic algorithm", GECCO 2004. (poster)
• "A Diversity-controlling Adaptive GA for the VRP with Time Windows", ICTAI 2003. (slides)
• "A Meeting Scheduling System Based on Open Constraint Programming", CAiSE 2002. (slides)
• "Reactive Web Agents with OCP", the Fifth International Symposium on Autonomous Decentralized Systems (ISADS 2001). (slides)

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