Sotabase

Career

· Associate Professor, HKUST(GZ) Information Hub, 港科大（广州）信息枢纽2023–
· Senior Scientist, Qatar Computing Research Institute, HBKU2015–2023
· Research Scientist, Qatar Computing Research Institute2011–2015
· Research Fellow, University of Edinburgh2010–2012
· Scientific Staff Member, Centrum voor Wiskunde en Informatica2008–2010
· Visiting Scholar, University of Waterloo2007–2007
· PhD., Computer Science, The Chinese University of Hong Kong2004–2007
· BE; 2004 ME; PhD, Computer Science; Computer Science; Systems Engineering & Engineering Management, Northeastern University1997–2001

Publications (137)

NADEEF: a commodity data cleaning system
ACM SIGMOD Conference · 2013
337
cited
Distributed Representations of Tuples for Entity Resolution
Proceedings of the VLDB Endowment · 2017
326
cited
KATARA: A Data Cleaning System Powered by Knowledge Bases and Crowdsourcing
SIGMOD Conference · 2015
307
cited
Detecting Data Errors: Where are we and what needs to be done?
Proceedings of the VLDB Endowment · 2016
274
cited
Towards certain fixes with editing rules and master data
The VLDB journal · 2010
263
cited
DeepEye: Towards Automatic Data Visualization
IEEE International Conference on Data Engineering · 2018
255
cited
Making data visualization more efficient and effective: a survey
The VLDB journal · 2019
219
cited
Graph pattern matching
Proceedings of the VLDB Endowment · 2010
191
cited
Adding regular expressions to graph reachability and pattern queries
Frontiers of Computer Science · 2011
178
cited
BigDansing: A System for Big Data Cleansing
SIGMOD Conference · 2015
177
cited
The Data Civilizer System
Conference on Innovative Data Systems Research · 2017
167
cited
Raha: A Configuration-Free Error Detection System
SIGMOD Conference · 2019
161
cited
Reinforcement Learning with Tree-LSTM for Join Order Selection
IEEE International Conference on Data Engineering · 2020
152
cited
Interaction between Record Matching and Data Repairing
JDIQ · 2014
148
cited
Seeping Semantics: Linking Datasets Using Word Embeddings for Data Discovery
IEEE International Conference on Data Engineering · 2018
134
cited
Natural Language to Visualization by Neural Machine Translation
IEEE Transactions on Visualization and Computer Graphics · 2021
131
cited
Synthesizing Entity Matching Rules by Examples
Proceedings of the VLDB Endowment · 2017
126
cited
Synthesizing Natural Language to Visualization (NL2VIS) Benchmarks from NL2SQL Benchmarks
SIGMOD Conference · 2021
121
cited
Graph Stream Summarization: From Big Bang to Big Crunch
SIGMOD Conference · 2016
116
cited
Towards dependable data repairing with fixing rules
SIGMOD Conference · 2014
110
cited
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