Peixiang Zhao

• [Jan. 2013] I am now teaching COP5725: Advanced Database Systems.
• [Aug. 2012] I am now teaching COP4710: Database Systems.

My name is Peixiang Zhao, an assistant professor at the Department of Computer Science in the Florida State University. I graduated on Aug. 2012 from the Data Mining Research Group and the Data and Information Systems Laboratory at the Department of Computer Science in the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign (UIUC). I was fortunate to have Prof. Jiawei Han as my advisor.

I got my B.S. and M.S. degree from the Department of Computer Science and Technology (it now becomes the School of Electronics Enginnering and Computer Science) in Peking University at 2001 and 2004, respectively. Between 2004 and 2007, I was a Ph.D. student at the Department of Systems Engineering and Engineering Management, the Chinese University of Hong Kong. I was a member of the Database Research Group, supervised by Prof. Jeffrey Xu Yu.

My research interest lies in database systems, data mining, data-intensive computation and analytics. More specifically, I have been focused on the problems of modeling, querying and mining graph-structured data, such as large-scale graph databases, information networks and social networks, which have been witnessed extremely popular and are flourishing in a wide spectrum of real world application domains, such as bioinformatics, computer systems, business processes and ultimately, the Web.

I have been involved in the following research projects at UIUC:
  Information Network Academic Research Center                        BeeSpace

For a fairly complete publication list, please go check Research page.

• Peixiang Zhao, Charu Aggarwal, Min Wang. gSketch: On Query Estimation in Graph Streams. In the 38th International Conference on Very Large Data Bases (VLDB'12). 193-204. Istanbul, Turkey. Aug. 2012. [ Paper ]
• Peixiang Zhao, Xiaolei Li, Dong Xin, Jiawei Han. Graph Cube: On Warehousing and OLAP Multidimensional Networks. In the 2011 ACM International Conference on Management of Data (SIGMOD'11). 853-864. Athens, Greece. Jun. 2011. [ Paper | Slides ]
• Peixiang Zhao, Jiawei Han. On Graph Query Optimization in Large Networks. In the 36th International Conference on Very Large Data Bases (VLDB'10). 340-351. Singapore. Sept. 2010. [ Paper | Slides ]
• Peixiang Zhao, Jiawei Han, Yizhou Sun. P-Rank: A Comprehensive Structural Similarity Measure over Information Networks. In the 18th ACM Conference on Information and Knowledge Management (CIKM'09). 553-562. Hong Kong, China. Nov. 2009. [ Paper | Slides ]
• Peixiang Zhao, Jeffrey Xu Yu, and Philip S. Yu. Graph Indexing: Tree + Delta >= Graph. In the 33rd International Conference on Very Large Data Bases (VLDB'07). 91-102. Vienna, Austria. Sept. 2007. [ Paper | Slides ]

I had extensive industrial experiences as summer interns in major industrial research labs:

• Web Search and Mining Group (WSM), Microsoft Research Asia (May 2011 --- Aug. 2011)
  • Manager: Dr. Haixun Wang
  • Topic: Maximal clique enuemration from Internet-scale graphs: a vertex-centric approach on Trinity
• Sensing and Energy Research Group (SERG), Microsoft Research Redmond (May 2010 --- Aug. 2010)
  • Mentor: Dr. Dimitrios Lymberopoulos       Manager: Dr. Jie Liu
  • Topic: Location-aware click prediction on mobile local search
• IBM T. J. Watson Research Center, Yorktown Heights, NY (Jun. 2009 --- Aug. 2009)
  • Mentor: Dr. Amol Ghoting       Manager: Dr. Edwin Pednault
  • Topic: HadoopML: a parallel data mining and machine learning infrastructure over Hadoop
• IBM T. J. Watson Research Center, Hawthorne, NY (May 2008 --- Aug. 2008)
  • Mentor: Dr. Charu Aggarwal       Manager: Dr. Min Wang
  • Topic: Query estimation on massive graph streams