STAFF PROFILE
Professor Zhifeng Bao
Position:
Professor
College / Portfolio:
STEM College
School / Department:
STEM|School of Computing Technologies
Phone:
+61399251940
Email:
zhifeng.bao@rmit.edu.au
Campus:
City Campus
Contact me about:
Research supervision
Research Interests
Dr Zhifeng Bao is highly interested in how to make data usable to data consumers, and make the implementation of such usability module as efficient and generalized as possible. In particular, he has been playing actively in:
Improving the Usability of Heterogeneous Cross-domain Data
- (Semi-)Structured data: relational, XML, spatial
- Unstructured data: text string
- Social network data (is NOT just a graph): modelling, management and analysis
- High-dimensional data: image, video, time-series trajectory
Methodology:
- Keyword Search (fuzzy search, type-ahead search, geo-textual search, personalized search, real time search)
- Query Relaxation/Suggestion,
- Visualized data exploration and analysis
- Provenance Data Storage and Tracking
Awards
- Singapore Infocomm Development Authority Medal and Prize - Best PhD Thesis Award of Class of 2011 (The only Winner)
Research: Faculty member of RMIT-NICTA Data Analytics Lab
Teaching: Coordinator of COSC1169: Intranet and Internet Data Engineering
Administration: Staff Representative of the International Committee of School of CSIT
PhD, computer science, National University of Singapore, 2011
- Wang, X.,Luo, F.,Wu, Q.,Bao, Z. (2023). How Context or Knowledge Can Benefit Healthcare Question Answering? In: IEEE Transactions on Knowledge and Data Engineering, 35, 575 - 588
- Xu, J.,Bao, Z.,Lu, H. (2023). A Framework to Support Continuous Range Queries over Multi-Attribute Trajectories In: IEEE Transactions on Knowledge and Data Engineering, 35, 1119 - 1133
- Huang, J.,Hu, W.,Bao, Z.,Chen, Q.,Qu, Y. (2023). Deep entity matching with adversarial active learning In: VLDB Journal, 32, 229 - 255
- Xu, J.,Lu, H.,Bao, Z. (2023). A Query Optimizer for Range Queries over Multi-Attribute Trajectories In: ACM Transactions on Intelligent Systems and Technology, 14, 1 - 28
- Lan, H.,Xie, J.,Bao, Z.,Li, F.,Tian, W.,Wang, F.,Wang, S.,Zhang, A. (2022). VRE: A Versatile, Robust, and Economical Trajectory Data System In: Proceedings of the VLDB Endowment, 15, 3398 - 3410
- Lan, H.,Zhang, Y.,Bao, Z.,Dong, Y.,Huang, D.,Tang, L.,Zhang, J. (2022). AutoDI: Towards an Automatic Plan Regression Analysis In: Proceedings of the VLDB Endowment, 15, 3626 - 3629
- Huang, S.,Lin, W.,Bao, Z.,Sun, J. (2022). Influence Maximization in Real-World Closed Social Networks In: Proceedings of the VLDB Endowment, 16, 180 - 192
- Zhang, Z.,Gan, J.,Bao, Z.,Kazemi, S.,Chen, G.,Zhu, F. (2022). Approximate Range Thresholding In: SIGMOD '22: International Conference on Management of Data, Philadelphia, PA, USA, June 12 - 17, 2022., Philadelphia, PA, USA, 12-17 June 2022
- Yudong, N.,Li, Y.,Fan, J.,Bao, Z. (2022). Local Clustering over Labeled Graphs: An Index-Free Approach In: 38th IEEE International Conference on Data Engineering, ICDE 2022, Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia, 9-12 May 2022
- Tedjopurnomo, D.,Bao, Z.,Choudhury, F.,Luo, H.,Qin, A. (2022). Equitable Public Bus Network Optimization for Social Good: A Case Study of Singapore In: FAccT '22: 2022 ACM Conference on Fairness, Accountability, and Transparency, Seoul, Republic of Korea, 21-24 June 2022
- CSIRO Data61 Postgraduate Student Agreement (Ge Lee) - Capturing and Leveraging Collective Behaviours in Social Networks with Causality Analysis. Funded by: Data61 PhD Scholarship from (2023 to 2026)
- Advancing Analytical Query Processing with Urban Trajectory Data. Funded by: ARC Discovery Projects commencing in 2022 from (2022 to 2025)
- Data61 PhD Scholarship - Generalisable understanding of objects in complex environments from 3D point clouds (PhD student Xiaoyu Zhang). Funded by: Data61 PhD Scholarship from (2022 to 2025)
- Next-generation Intelligent Explorations of Geo-located Data (externally led by Swinburne University of Technology). Funded by: ARC Discovery Projects via other university 2020 from (2020 to 2023)
- Towards a Personalised Visual Exploration on Structured Data. Funded by: Google Faculty Research Award 2016 onwards from (2019 to 2025)
Note: Supervision projects since 2004
6 PhD Current Supervisions8 PhD Completions and 1 Masters by Research Completions
Database management, Keyword search over database, Spatial-textual data processing, Heterogeneous data usability, Social network analysis