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Email: csehung[at]comp[dot]polyu[dot]edu[dot]hk

Office: PQ711
Department of Computing
The Hong Kong Polytechnic University
Hung Hom, Kowloon, Hong Kong

Phone: (852) 2766 7288

Ph.D.(Maryland), M.S.(Maryland), M.Phil.(HK), B.Eng.(HK)

Edward Hung is an assistant professor at the Department of Computing, the Hong Kong Polytechnic University. He received his B.Eng. in Computer Engineering and M.Phil. in Computer Science from the University of Hong Kong in 1998 and 2000 respectively. He obtained his M.S. degree and Ph.D. degree from the Department of Computer Science, the University of Maryland, College Park (UMCP) in May 2002 and May 2005. He was supported by Scholarships from the Croucher Foundation and research assistantship for his Ph.D. research during 2000 - 2003 and 2003 - 2005 under supervision of Prof. V.S. Subrahmanian. He was awarded a number of scholarships and awards, including Jacob K. Goldhaber Travel Grant Award, Hung Hing Ying Scholarship, Epson Foundation Scholarship, the Hong Kong and China Gas Company Limited Postgraduate Scholarship, Stephen Kam-Chuen Cheong Memorial Scholarships, and the Hong Kong Institution of Engineers Student Prize, etc. He has fourteen conference full papers, three journal articles and two book chapters related to data mining for uncertain data and outsourcing, classification, probabilistic ontology, RDF aggregates and view maintenance, recall improvement in XML queries by ontologies and similarities, probabilistic semistructured databases, data warehousing, parallel data mining and E-commerce.

Curriculum Vitae (pdf)

List of publications (with links and citations)

Teaching

2008-2009 Semester 1 Teaching: COMP5111 and COMP5111-B Database Systems and Management
2007-2008 Semester 2 Teaching: COMP5111 Database Systems and Management, COMP440 Customer Relationship Management
2007-2008 Semester 1 Teaching: COMP5111 Database Systems and Management
2006-2007 Semester 2 Teaching: COMP305 Data Structures and Algorithms, COMP440 Customer Relationship Management
2006-2007 Semester 1 Teaching: COMP5111 Database Systems and Management
2005-2006 Summer Semester Teaching: COMP5538 Customer Relationship Management and Technology
2005-2006 Semester 2 Teaching: COMP5538 Customer Relationship Management and Technology
2005-2006 Semester 1 Teaching: COMP5111 Database Systems and Management

Research Interests

(1) Probabilistic Databases
(2) Data Mining and Knowledge Discovery
(3) Privacy-preserving Data Mining, and Parallel Data Mining
(4) Semistructured (XML) Databases
(5) Semantic Web (Ontology Management)
(6) Semantic Matchmaking (e.g., Online Dating, Social Networking)



Research Projects CIDM presentation

1 Publication in 2009: a book chapter in Managing and Mining Uncertain Data
4 Publications in 2008: a conference paper in AI-08, a conference paper in PAKDD, 2 papers in IEEE WMWA Workshop
4 Publications in 2007: a journal paper in TOCL, a conference paper in VLDB, a conference paper in PAKDD, a conference paper in CIDM
2 Publications in 2005: a conference paper in ICDE, an invited conference paper in OTM Confederated International Conferences (CoopIS, DOA, and ODBASE)
2 Publications in 2004: a conference paper in SIGMOD, a journal paper in JIIS (Journal of Intelligent Information Systems)
2 Publications in 2003: a conference paper in ICDT, a conference paper in ICDE
2 Publications in 2002: a journal paper in DAPD (Distributed and Parallel Database), a book chapter in E-Service
1 Publication in 2000: a conference paper in PAKDD
1 Publication in 1999: a conference paper in IDC
4 paper in progress: 1 journal paper, 3 conference papers

Estimated impact of publications: (rank, name, impact factor, percentile)
66. SIGMOD Conference: 1.74 (top 5.40%)
106. VLDB: 1.52 (top 8.68%)
129. ICDT: 1.41 (top 10.56%)
150. TOCL: 1.30 (top 12.28%)
167. ICDE: 1.25 (top 13.67%)
206. Distributed and Parallel Databases: 1.16 (top 16.87%)
241. JIIS: 1.08 (top 19.73%)
801. PAKDD: 0.30 (top 65.60%)

Grants Received

1. Internal Grant for Proposals Rated 3.5 in CERG 2008-2009 (HK$150,000)
2. ICRG 2007-2008: Clustering Web-Search Results (HK$80,000)
3. CERG 2007-2008 (PolyU 5174/04E): Development of Enhanced Probabilistic Ontology (EPO) Model and EPO-Based Semantic Matching for Matching User Profiles (HK$369,600)
4. ICRG 2006-2007: Distance Representation Modeling for Uncertain Objects (HK$120,000)
5. Internal Grant for Proposals Rated 3.5 in CERG 2006-2007: Data Mining on Uncertain Data (HK$150,000)
6. ICRG 2005-2006: Probabilistic Outlier Detection on Uncertain Data (HK$120,000)

Academic Activities

Conference Program Committee Member

The Fourth International Conference on Internet and Web Applications and Services (ICIW), 2009
The First International Conference on Advances in Databases (DB 2009)
IADIS European Conference on Data Mining (ECDM), 2009
The First Workshop on Management and mining of UNcertain Data (MOUND 2009)
The 1st International workshop on Defense against Spam in Electronic Communication (DaSECo'09) (DEXA'09 workshop)
International Workshop on Mobile Business Collaboration (MBC'09) (DASFAA workshop)
International Conference on Scalable Uncertainty Management (SUM) 2008
IADIS European Conference on Data Mining (ECDM), 2008
The 7th International Conference on Machine Learning and Cybernetics (ICMLC), 2008
International Workshop on Social and Legal Aspects under Emerging Computing Environments (SLAECE 2008) with ICIW 2008
IADIS European Conference on Data Mining (ECDM), 2007
International Conference on Scalable Uncertainty Management (SUM) 2007
The 6th International Conference on Machine Learning and Cybernetics (ICMLC), 2007
The International Workshop on Service-Oriented Knowledge Management (SOKM 2007)
The 1st Workshop on Data Mining of Uncertain Data (DUNE 2007)
International Conference on Ontologies, Databases and Application of Semantics (ODBASE) 2006
International Conference on Web-Age Information Management (WAIM) 2006

Journal Reviewers

ACM Transactions on Database Systems (TODS), 2009
VLDB Journal, 2008
IEEE Transactions on Knowledge and Data Engineering (TKDE), 2005, 2007, 2008
Knowledge and Information Systems (KAIS), 2005, 2006, 2007, 2008
Service Oriented Computing and Applications, 2008
International Journal of Business Process Integration and Management, 2007, 2008
Computational Intelligence Journal, 2007
International Journal of Business Process Integration and Management, 2007
Special Issue on "Data Management" of the Journal of Computer Science and Technology (published by Springer Science + Business Media), 2006
Data & Knowledge Engineering (DKE) Journal, 2005
Software: Practice and Experience (SPE), 2005
Information Processing Letters (IPL), 2000

Others

Reviewer, the 24th Annual ACM Symposium on Applied Computing, 2009
Reviewer, the 23rd Annual ACM Symposium on Applied Computing, 2008
Reviewer, the IEEE International Conference on Data Mining (ICDM), Hong Kong, 2006.
Reviewer, International Conference Information Technology and Management (ICITM) 2006, Hong Kong, 2007.
External Reviewer, CERG proposals, Research Grants Council, Hong Kong SAR Government, Hong Kong, 2005-2006.
Reviewer, 7th ACM Postgraduate Research Day, Hong Kong, 2006.

Services

External examiner of M.Phil. candidate, Chui Chun Kit, Department of Computer Science, University of Hong Kong, 2007
Final Year Project Quality Assurance Panel Member, Department of Computing, Hong Kong Polytechnic University, 2005-2007
Judge of Finals of the IT Debate 2006, the 18th Hong Kong Joint School Electronics and Computer Exhibition, organized by Hong Kong Joint School Electronics and Computer Society, Aug 23, 2006.
Interview panel member of JUPAS applications, Department of Computing, Hong Kong Polytechnic University, 2006.
Judge of ITª¬¤¸ª§ÅQ¾Ô (IT competition for secondary school students), co-organized by PC Weekly, OGCIO, and Department of Computing at Hong Kong Polytechnic University, May 28, 2006