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Lei ZOU

Associate Professor in
Institute of Computer Science and Technology of
Peking University, China
Email: zoulei AT pku.edu.cn

Biography

Lei Zou received his BS degree and Ph.D. degree in Computer Science at Huazhong University of Science and Technology (HUST) in 2003 and 2009, respectively. Now, he is an associate professor in Institute of Computer Science and Technology of Peking University. He visited Department of Computer Science and Engineering of Hong Kong University of Science and Technolgoy under supervision of Dr. Lei Chen from Nov. 2006 to Jun. 2007; and David R. Cheriton School of Computer Science of University of Waterloo under supervision of Prof. M. Tamer Ozsu from Oct. 2008 to Oct. 2009.

Research

Graph Data Managment AND Knowledge-base Construction & Search

Publications:

(authors associated with * are/were students I have supervised)

Refereed Journal Papers:

Lei Zou, Lei Chen, Pareto-Based Dominant Graph: An Efficient Indexing Structure to Answer Top-k Queries, IEEE Transactions on Knowledge and Data Engineering (TKDE) Vol. 23, pp 727-741 (2011).
Lei Zou, Lei Chen, M. Tamer Özsu Dongyan Zhao, Answering pattern match queries in large graph databases via graph embedding, VLDB Journal Vol.21(1), pp 97-120, 2012.
Lei Zou, Yueguo Chen, A Survey of Large-Scale RDF Data Management, Comunications of CCCF Vol.8(11), pp 32-43, 2012 (Invited Paper, in Chinese).

Refereed Conference and Workshop Papers:

2013

Ruizhe Huang*, Lei Zou, Natural Language Question Answering over RDF Data, to appear in Proc. SIGMOD 2013 (abstract only, Undergraduate Poster Competition).
Weiguo Zheng*, Lei Zou, Yansong Feng, Lei Chen, Dongyan Zhao,Efficient SimRank-based Similarity Join Over Large Graphs, to appear in Proc. VLDB 2013.
Dong Wang*, Lei Zou, Yansong Feng, Xuchuan Shen, Jilei Tian, and Dongyan Zhao,S-store: An Engine for Large RDF Graph Integrating Spatial Information, to appear in DASFAA 2013.
Xiaolu Zhang, Yueguo Chen, Jinchuan Chen, Xiaoyong Du, and Lei Zou, Mapping Entity-Attribute Web Tables to Web-Scale Knowledge Bases. to appear in DASFAA 2013.

2012

Liwei Chen, Yansong Feng, Lei Zou,Dongyan Zhao, Explore Person Specific Evidence in Web Person Name Disambiguation,EMNLP-CoNLL 2012: 832-842.
Dong Wang*, Lei Zou, Dongyan Zhao, Keyword Graph: Answering Keyword Search Over Large Graphs, ADMA 2012:635-649.

2011

Lei Zou, Jinghui Mo, Lei Chen,M. Tamer Özsu, Dongyan Zhao, gStore: Answering SPARQL Queries Via Subgraph Matching, Proc. VLDB 4(8): 482-493 (2011).
Lei Zou, Peng Peng, Dongyan Zhao, Top-K Possible Shortest Path Query Over a Large Uncertain Graph, WISE 2011: 72-86.
Weiguo Zheng*, Lei Zou, Dongyan Zhao, Efficient Answering Subgraph Queries Over Large Graphs, WAIM 2011: 390-402 .
Peng Peng*, Lei Zou, Lei Chen, Xueming Lin, Dongyan Zhao,Subgraph Search over Massive Disk Resident Graphs, SSDBM 2011: 312-321 (short paper) .
Kun Xu*, Lei Zou, Jeffery Xu Yu, Lei Chen, Yanghua Xiao, Dongyan Zhao, Answering Label-Constraint Reachability in Large Graphs, CIKM 2011: 1595-1600 (short paper) .

2010

Lei Zou, Lei Chen, M. Tamer Özsu,Dongyan Zhao, Dynamic Skyline Queries in Large Graphs, DASFAA (2) 2010: 62-78.
Wei Wang, Dongyan Zhao, Lei Zou, Dong Wang, Weiguo Zheng: Extracting 5W1H Event Semantic Elements from Chinese Online News, WAIM 2010: 644-655.

2009

Lei Zou, Lei Chen, M. Tamer Özsu: DistanceJoin: Pattern Match Query In a Large Graph Database. Proc. of VLDB 2(1): 886-897 (2009) .
Lei Zou, Lei Chen, M. Tamer Özsu: K-Automorphism: A General Framework For Privacy Preserving Network Publication. Proc. of VLDB 2(1): 946-957 (2009)
Lei Zou, Lei Chen, Yansheng Lu: Top-K Correlation Sub-graph Search in Graph Databases. DASFAA 2009: 168-185

2008

Lei Zou, Lei Chen, Huaming Zhang, Yansheng Lu, Qiang Lou: Summarization Graph Indexing: Beyond Frequent Structure-Based Approach. DASFAA 2008: 141-155 .
Lei Zou , Lei Chen, Jeffrey Xu Yu, Yansheng Lu: A novel spectral coding in a large graph database. EDBT 2008: 181-192
Lei Zou , Lei Chen: Dominant Graph: An Efficient Indexing Structure to Answer Top-K Queries. ICDE 2008: 536-545

2007

Lei Zou, Lei Chen, Yansheng Lu: Top-k subgraph matching query in a large graph. PIKM 2007: 139-146.
Rong Hu, Yansheng Lu, Lei Zou, Chong Zhou: Progressive Subspace Skyline Clusters Mining on High Dimensional Data. PAKDD Workshops 2007: 268-279
Chong Zhou, Yansheng Lu, Lei Zou , Rong Hu: Evaluate Structure Similarity in XML Documents with Merge-Edit-Distance. PAKDD Workshops 2007: 301-311

2006

Lei Zou, Lei Zou, Yansheng Lu, Huaming Zhang, Rong Hu: Mining Frequent Induced Subtree Patterns with Subtree-Constraint. ICDM Workshops 2006: 3-7.
Lei Zou, Yansheng Lu, Huaming Zhang, Rong Hu: PrefixTreeESpan: A Pattern Growth Algorithm for Mining Embedded Subtrees. WISE 2006: 499-505

Professional Services:

Reviewer for the following journals:

ACM Transactions on Database System (Since 2009);
IEEE Transactions on Knowledge and Data Engineering (Since 2010)
IEEE Transactions on Parallel and Distributed Systems (Since 2011)
World Wide Web Journal (Since 2011)
Knowledge and Information Systems (Since 2012)

Program Committee Member for the following conferences

CIKM 2009 (Demo track ), 2010 (demo track), 2012 (DB track)
DASFAA 2012
WAIM 2010, 20WISE 2010, 2011
NDBC 2012

Conference Organizers:

The 14th Asia-Pacific Web Conference (APWeb 2012), workshop co-Chairs;
The First International Workshop on Graph Database (co-located with WAIM 2010), PC co-Chairs;
The 2nd and 3rd International Workshop on Graph Data Management: Techniques and Applications
(GDM 2011,12) (co-located with ICDE 2011,2012), PC co-Chairs;