Peixiang Zhao

Office: ****A, Siebel CenterDepartment of Computer Science

Mobile: (217) 819-1177University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign

Email: pzhao4@illinois.edu201 North Goodwin Avenue

Home page: www.cs.illinois.edu/homes/pzhao4Urbana, IL 61801-2302

Research Interest

Database systems

Data mining and knowledge discovery

Information/social network analysis

Algorithm design for large-scale data analytics

Education

Urbana IL., U.S. (Sept. 2007 { 2012 expected)University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign

Status: Ph.D. candidate in Data Mining Research Group, Data and Information Systems

(DAIS) Laboratory,

Department of Computer Science

Advisor: Prof. Jiawei Han GPA: 3:96=4:0

Hong Kong SAR, China (Sept. 2004 { Jul. 2007)Chinese University of Hong Kong

Status: Ph.D. student in Database Research Group, Department of Systems Engineering and

Engineering Man-

agement (SEEM)

Advisor: Prof. Jeffrey Xu Yu GPA: 3:95=4:0

Beijing, China (Sept. 2001 { Jul. 2004)Peking University

Status: M.S. student in Database Research Group, Department of Computer Science

Advisor: Prof. Ming Zhang, Prof. Dongqing Yang GPA: 3:80=4:0

Beijing, China (Sept. 1997 { Jul. 2001)Peking University

Status: B.S. student in Department of Computer Science

Advisor: Prof. Dongqing Yang GPA: 3:70=4:0

Research Experience

Urbana, IL (Sept. 2007 { now)University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign

Research/Teaching assistant Advisor: Prof. Jiawei HanPosition:

Studied and worked as a group member of Information Network Academic Research Center

(INARC)

Designed and implemented Graph Cube, a data warehousing and OLAP tool for

multidimensional networks

[SIGMOD 11]

Designed and implemented SPath, a high-performance graph indexing mechanism for graph

query processing in

large networks [VLDB 10]

Designed and implemented P-Rank, a comprehensive structural-context similarity measure in

large information

networks [CIKM 09]

Designed and implemented the concept switching module of the BeeSpace project in the

Institute For Genome

Biology (IGB)

Beijing, China (May 2011 { Aug. 2011)Microsoft Research Asia

Summer intern Group: Web Search and Mining GroupPosition:

Dr. Haixun WangMentor:

Maximal clique enumeration on Internet-scale networks: worked on the maximal clique

enumeration problem

on a distributed graph computational platform, Trinity, in a new vertex-centric approach.

Redmond, WA (May 2010 { Aug. 2010)Microsoft Research

Summer intern Group: Sensing and Energy Research GroupPosition:

Dr. Dimitrios Lymberopoulos Manager: Dr. Jie LiuMentor:

1

Research Experience (continued)

Location-aware click prediction for mobile local search: worked in the location-aware

mobile local search data, which contain 1:7M mobile search logs across the whole U.S.

collected from m.bing.com

[CIKM 11][SIGIR 11]

Yorktown Heights, NY (Jun. 2009 { Aug. 2009)IBM Research

Summer intern Group: Data Analytics Research GroupPosition:

Dr. Amol Ghoting Manager: Dr. Edwin PednaultMentor:

Hadoop-ML: a parallel data mining and machine learning infrastructure over Hadoop: worked

in the Hadoop-ML

project to support major data mining and machine learning algorithms in parallel on top

of

Hadoop

Hawthorn, NY (May 2008 { Aug

. 2008)IBM Research

853 864, Athens, Greece, Jun. 2011 (full paper, acc. rate = 23%).

7. Peixiang Zhao, Jiawei Han. On Graph Query Optimization in Large Networks. In

proceedings of the

36th International Conference on Very Large Data Bases (VLDB 10), 340 351, Singapore,

Sept. 2010 (full

paper, acc. rate = 15:8%).

8. Charu C. Aggarwal, Peixiang Zhao. Graphical Models for Text: A New Paradigm for Text

Representation

and Processing. In proceedings of the 33rd Annual International ACM SIGIR Conference on

Research and

Development in Information Retrieval (SIGIR 10), 899 900, Geneva, Switzerland, Jul. 2010

(poster, acc.

rate = 30:7%).

9. Heli Sun, Jianbin Huang, Jiawei Han, Hongbo Deng, Peixiang Zhao, and Boqin Feng.

gSkeleton-Clu:

Density-based Network Clustering via Structure-Connected Tree Division or Agglomeration.

In proceedings

of International Conference on Data Mining (ICDM 10), 481 490, Sydney, Australia, Dec.

2010 (full

paper, acc. rate = 9:08%).

Peixiang Zhao, Jiawei Han, Yizhou Sun. P-Rank: A Comprehensive Structural Similarity

Measure over10.

Information Networks. In proceedings of the 18th ACM Conference on Information and

Knowledge Man-

agement (CIKM 09), 553 562, Hong Kong, China, Nov. 2009 (full paper, acc. rate = 14:5%).

Yizhou Sun, Jiawei Han, Peixiang Zhao, Zhijun Yin, Hong Cheng and Tianyi Wu, RankClus:

Integrating11.

Clustering with Ranking for Heterogeneous Information Network Analysis. In proceedings of

International

Conference on Extended Data Base Technology (EDBT 09), 565 576, Saint-Petersburg, Russia,

Mar. 2009

(full paper, acc. rate = 32:5%).

Yizhou Sun, Tianyi Wu, Hong Cheng, Jiawei Han, Xiaoxin Yin and Peixiang Zhao,

BibNetMiner: Mining12.

Bibliographic Information Networks. In proceedings of ACM SIGMOD International Conference

on Man-

agement of Data (SIGMOD 08), 1341 1344, Vancouver, BC, Canada, Jun. 2008 (demo, acc. rate

=

31:9%).

Peixiang Zhao, Jeffrey Xu Yu and Philip S. Yu. Graph Indexing: Tree + Delta >= Graph. In

proceedings13.

of the 33rd International Conference on Very Large Data Bases (VLDB 07), 91 102, Vienna,

Austria, Sept.

2007 (full paper, acc. rate = 16:4%).

Peixiang Zhao and Jeffrey Xu Yu. Closed Frequent Free Tree Mining in Graph Databases. In

proceedings of14.

the Twelfth International Conference on Database Systems for Advanced Applications

(DASFAA 07), 91 102,

Bangkok, Thailand, Jun. 2007 (full paper, acc. rate = 18:7%).

Peixiang Zhao and Jeffrey Xu Yu. Fast Frequent Free Tree Mining in Graph Databases. In

proceedings15.

of the IEEE International Conference on Data Mining (ICDM 06), 315 319, Hong Kong, China,

Dec. 2006

(workshop paper).

Peixiang Zhao, Ming Zhang, Dongqing Yang and Shiwei Tang. Finding Hidden Semantics behind

Reference16.

Linkages:

Honors and Awards

2011 SIGMOD 2011 Travel Grant

2011 Data Mining Research Silver Award, UIUC

4

Honors and Awards (continued)

2010 Data Mining Research Award, Honorable mention, UIUC

2006 Best Teaching Assistant Award, CUHK

2004 Best Graduate Award, Peking University

2004 Excellent Master Thesis Award, Peking University

2003 Social Work Excellence Award, Peking University

2003 Dean s Award for Study Excellence, Peking University

2003 May 4th Scholarship, Peking University

2002 Kodak Scholarship, Peking University

2002 Tri-excellence Model Honor, Peking University

2001 Excellent Undergraduate Thesis Award, Peking UniversityReferences

Jeffrey Xu YuJiawei Han

ProfessorAble Bliss Professor

Department of Systems EngineeringDepartment of Computer Science

Room 511B, William M.W. Mong Engineering Building201 N. Goodwin Avenue

Shatin, Hong Kong, ChinaUrbana, IL 61801, USA

(852-****-****(217) 333-6903

abo4yn@r.postjobfree.com@cs.illinois.edu

Kevin Chen-Chuan ChangCharu C. Aggarwal

Associate ProfessorResearch Scientist

Department of Computer ScienceIBM T. J. Watson Research Center

201 N. Goodwin Avenue19 Skyline Drive

Urbana, IL 61801, USAHawthorne, NY 10532, USA

217-***-****(914) 784-6699

abo4yn@r.postjobfree.com@us.ibm.com

5

Contact this candidate