Dr. Bao Zhifeng  (鲍芝峰)



Database Research Lab 1

School of Computing
National University of Singapore
13 Computing Drive, Singapore 117417

Office: COM1 #01-08

 

 

Biography
He was born and spent his first 18 years in Nanjing
(南京), the ancient capital of ten dynasties. He received the degree of Bachelor of Computing (Honors), Second Upper Class from National University of Singapore (NUS) in 2006. He started his PhD journey under the supervision of Professor Ling Tok Wang from 2006, and got the PhD degree in early of 2011.

 

He is now a Research Fellow of School of Computing, NUS, working on the UTab Project, under supervision of Prof. Beng Chin Ooi and Prof. Y.C. Tay.
He is a member of the DB System Research Group

 

 

Research Interests
Data Management in Cloud Infrastructure, Evaluation of Platforms/Services in Cloud

Query Processing over Semi-structured Data

Query Processing over Streaming Data

Data Provenance and Lineage over RDBMS

Social Network Data Modeling and Generation



Awards
Undergraduate study

Place on Dean's List in academic season 2003/2004
Place on Dean's List in academic season 2005/2006

 

Graduate study
Research Achievement Award for 2009

Winner of IDA Medal and Prize - Best PhD Thesis Award of Class of 2011

Best Papers of DASFAA 2012

Best Papers of ICDE 2009

 

 

Internships
AT&T Shannon Lab 2009 June - Nov (GigaScope Project, work with Dr. Divesh Srivastava,

                                                      Dr. Graham Cormode, Dr. Theodore Johnson and Dr. Vladislav Shkapenyuk)

University of Queensland  2010 June-Sep (Data Provenance Project, work with Prof. Xiaofang Zhou and Dr. Henning Koehler)

 

 

System Demo

XClear (An XML keyword search engine with meaningful keyword suggestion functionality)

 


Publications

 

Junfeng Zhou, Zhifeng Bao, Wei Wang and Tok Wang Ling. Fast SLCA and ELCA Computation for XML Keyword Query Based on Set Intersection Operation. ICDE 2012, full paper.

 

Junfeng Zhou, Zhifeng Bao, Xian Tang, Ziyang Chen and Tok Wang Ling. Fast Result Enumeration for Keyword Queries on XML Data. Journal of Computing Science and Engineering (JCSE) 2012. Invited paper from DASFAA 2012..

 

Yong Zeng, Zhifeng Bao, Tok Wang Ling and Luochen Li. MALEX: A Map-like Exploration Model on XML Databases. KEYS 2012, full paper.

 

Zhong Zeng, Zhifeng Bao, Tok Wang Ling and Mongli Lee. ISearch: An Interpretation based Framework For Keyword Search in Relational Databases. KEYS 2012, full paper.

 

Junfeng Zhou, Zhifeng Bao, Ziyang Chen and Tok Wang Ling. Fast Result Enumeration for Keyword Queries on XML Data. To appear in DASFAA 2012, full paper (Best Papers of DASFAA 2012).

 

Junfeng Zhou, Zhifeng Bao, Ziyang Chen, Guoxiang Lan, Xudong Lin and Tok Wang Ling. Top-Down SLCA Computation based on List Partition. To appear in DASFAA 2012, short paper.

 

Huayu Wu and Zhifeng Bao. Object Oriented XML Keyword Search. To appear in ER 2011.

 

Zhifeng Bao, Henning Koehler, Xiaofang Zhou and Tok Wang Ling. Store and Use Provenance Information for Relational Query. DASFAA 2011 (demo paper).

 

Junfeng Zhou, Tok Wang Ling, Zhifeng Bao and Xiaofeng Meng. Related Axis: the Extension to XPath towards Effective XML Search. JCST 2011 (journal paper).

 

Zhifeng Bao, Jiaheng Lu, Tok Wang Ling and Bo Chen. Towards an effective XML keyword search. IEEE Transactions on Knowledge and Data Engineering (TKDE) 2010 (Regular Paper)

 

Jiaheng Lu, Tok Wang Ling and Zhifeng Bao. Extended XML Tree Pattern Matching: Theories and Algorithms. In IEEE Transactions on Knowledge and Data Engineering (TKDE) 2010 (Regular Paper)

 

Zhifeng Bao, Jiaheng Lu and Tok Wang Ling. XReal: An Interactive XML Keyword Searching. Demo paper in CIKM 2010.

 

Zhifeng Bao, Jiaheng Lu, Tok Wang Ling, Liang Xu and Huayu Wu. An Effective Object-level XML Keyword Search. Full paper in DASFAA 2010. (acceptance rate: 23%)

 

Huayu Wu, Tok Wang Ling, Gillian Dobbie, Zhifeng Bao and Liang Xu. Reducing Graph Matching to Tree Matching for XML Queries with ID References. Full paper in DEXA 2010. (acceptance rate: )

 

Liang Xu, Tok Wang Ling, Zhifeng Bao and Huayu Wu. Efficient Label Encoding for Range-based Dynamic XML Labeling Schemes. Full paper in DASFAA 2010. (acceptance rate: 23%)

 

Zhifeng Bao, Tok Wang Ling, Bo Chen and Jiaheng Lu. Effective XML Keyword Search with Relevance Oriented Ranking. Full paper in ICDE 2009. (acceptance rate: 16%)

 

Jiaheng Lu, Zhifeng Bao, Tok Wang Ling and Xiaofeng Meng. XML Keyword Query Refinement. Poster in KEYS 2009, collocated with SIGMOD 2009.

 

Liang Xu, Tok Wang Ling, Huayu Wu and Zhifeng Bao. DDE: From Dewey to a Fully Dynamic XML Labeling. Full paper in SIGMOD 2009. (acceptance rate: )

Huayu Wu, Tok Wang Ling, Liang Xu and Zhifeng Bao. Performing Grouping and Aggregation Functions in XML Queries. Full paper in WWW 2009. (acceptance rate: 11.7%)

Zhifeng Bao, Bo Chen, Tok Wang Ling and Jiaheng Lu. Demonstrating Effective Ranked XML Keyword Search with Meaningful Result Display. Demo paper in DASFAA 2009.

Junfeng Zhou, Zhifeng Bao, Tok Wang Ling and Xiaofeng Meng. MCN: A New Semantics Towards Effective XML Keyword Search. Full paper in DASFAA 2009. (acceptance rate: 20%)

Zhifeng Bao, Tok Wang Ling, Jiaheng Lu and Bo Chen. SemanticTwig: A Semantic Approach to Optimize XML Query Processing. Full paper in DASFAA 2008. (acceptance rate: 16.7%)

Zhifeng Bao, Bo Chen and Huayu Wu. Using Semantics in XML Query Processing. Invited paper in ICUMIC 2008.

Liang Xu, Zhifeng Bao and Tok Wang Ling. A Dynamic Labeling Scheme using Vectors. Full paper in DEXA 2007. (acceptance rate: 22%)



Technical Reports
 

Jiaheng Lu, Zhifeng Bao and Tok Wang Ling. Automatic XML Keyword Query Refinement. Technical Report TRB6/09, School of Computing, National University of Singapore.


Professional Service

 

PC Co-Chair:    

    XML-DM 2012

Program Committee:    

    2012 - DASFAA, DEXA

    2010, 2011 - XML-DM

I was an External Reviewer for the following conferences:    

    2011 - WWW, DEXA

    2010 - DASFAA, DEXA, VLDB, XMLDM(workshop colocated with WAIM 2010)

    2009 - SIGMOD, WWW, ER, DASFAA, DEXA, WISE

    2008 - DASFAA, DEXA, WISE

 

I was an Invited Reviewer for the following journal(s):

    IEEE Transactions on Knowledge and Data Engineering(TKDE) - 20092011

    The VLDB Journal  - 2010

   

 


Teaching
Teaching Assistant of IT1002 Introduction To Programming, Semester 2 AY05/06

Teaching Assistant of CS2102 Database System I, Semester 1 AY06/07, AY 07/08, AY 08/09

Teaching Assistant of CS4221 Database Design, Semester 1 AY 08/09, 10/11.

 

Travel

Australia, New Zealand

Canada, USA

China, India, Singapore, Thailand, Japan

Europe

 


Personal Interest
 

Photography

NBA  (Michael Jordan's Biography For the Love of the Game)

Formula 1   (Micheal Jordan & Schumacher)

                There is a very beautiful video clip about Michael Schumacher Tribute2005