Dr. Sheng Wang
Professor of Computer Science
TOTEM Database Laboratory
Office: C502, School of Computer Science, Wuhan University, China
News
2023-8-24: Another work on fair clustering from my group “F3KM: Federated, Fair, and Fast k-means” is accepted to SIGMOD 2024.
2023-8-24: Congrats to Juntao Zhang who I co-supervised! His proposal on fair clustering for online education is funded by NSFC Youth Program.
2023-6-15: Congrats to my student Yuhui Lai who just got an Excellent Undergraduate Thesis Award of Wuhan University.
2023-2-23: Our work “Prerequisite-driven Fair Clustering on Heterogeneous Information Networks” is accepted to SIGMOD 2023.
2022-12-17: I am elected as one of the five executive committee members of the CCF Wuhan Chapter.
2022-9-8: Our proposal “Efficient Spatio-Temporal Dataset Search for Interactive Data Discovery” is funded by NSFC Youth Program.
2022-6-22: Congrats to my student Tianyao Wen who just got an Excellent Undergraduate Thesis Award of Wuhan University.
2022-6-16: Our work “Fast Dataset Search with Earth Mover's Distance” is accepted to PVLDB 2022.
2022-3-31: Congrats to my student Zehui Xu who just got a Finland Scholarship and was admitted to Aalto University to pursue a CS Master Degree
2022-3-10: I receive a research funding from Oppo.
2022-2-26: Our paper “Boosting Ant Colony Optimization via Solution Prediction and Machine Learning” is accepted by Computers & Operations Research.
2021-12-1: I receive an OceanBase research funding from Ant Group.
2021-11-27: I win the best presentation award at CCF Wuhan Young Faculty Academic Forum.
2021-11-22: I will serve as a PC at KDD 2022.
2021-11-18: Our work “A Resource-Aware Deep Cost Model for Big Data Query Processing” is accepted to ICDE 2022.
2021-9-25: I am invited to serve as a meta-reviewer for Climate Change AI Innovation Grants program.
2021-9-1: I join the School of Computer Science, Wuhan University as an associate professor.
Biography
I am currently a professor at the School of Computer Science, Wuhan University. I am also a part of the TOTEM Database Laboratory. My interests are mainly on spatial database. I have published full research papers on venues in database and information systems as the first author, such as SIGMOD, PVLDB, ICDE, SIGIR, WSDM, TKDE, and ACM Computing Surveys.
EXPERIENCE
2023-07-current: Professor at Wuhan University.
2021-09-2023.06: Associate professor at Wuhan University.
2019-09-2021-08: Smart cities postdoctoral research associate at New York University.
2019-08-2019-09: Visiting scholar at Nanyang Technological University.
RESEARCH INTERESTS
Fast and Fair Large-Scale Clustering (SIGMOD’24, SIGMOD’23, PVLDB’21, PVLDB’20).
Spatial Dataset Management (PVLDB’22).
Public Transport Planning (SIGMOD’21, TKDE, WSDM’19, ICDE’18).
Trajectory Data Management (SIGMOD’18, SIGIR’18, WSDM’18, ICDE’17).
Grants & Funding
co-PI, National Key R&D Program of China.
PI, Key R&D Program of Hubei Province.
SI, NSFC Youth Program.
SI, Oppo Research Grant (Twice).
SI, AntFinance Research Grant (Twice).
SELECTED AWARDS
Best presentation award at 2021 CCF Wuhan Young Faculty Academic Forum.
2018 ACM SIGIR Student Travel Grant ($2000 USD).
Travel Scholarship for 2017 ACM 50th Celebration of the Turing Award ($900 USD).
School-level Winner of 3 Minute Thesis Competition in 2016.
School-level People's Choice Winner of 3 Minute Thesis Competition in 2016.
2016 Outstanding Graduate of Nanjing University of Aeronautics and Astronautics.
2016 Excellent Master Thesis Award of Nanjing University of Aeronautics and Astronautics.
PROFESSIONAL SERVICES
Journal Reviewer: TKDE (since 2019), VLDBJ (Since 2020), TIST (Since 2020), TNNLS (since 2019), WWWJ (since 2020)
PC Member: KDD 2022 2023, PVLDB 2022, IJCAI 2021 2024, APWeb-WAIM 2020, ADC 2020, APWeb-WAIM 2019, MoBID@ER 2019, ADC 2019, ER 2018 (demo track), APWeb-WAIM 2018 (demo track), MLDQ@MDM 2019.
