Yu Tang

I am a PhD student at Oxford University, working with Prof. Dan Olteanu. My study is generously funded by VADA.

My research insterests are in both foundational and systems aspects of Databases and Data Management. The aim of my research is to build practical data management systems (preferably with theoretical foundations) that process and make use of data at scale.

I earned my MPhil degree from The University of Hong Kong, advised by Prof. Nikos Mamoulis and Prof. Reynold Cheng. I had been also affiliated with EPFL (Swiss Federal Institute of Technology Lausanne), QCRI (Qatar Computing Research Institute), and MSRA (Microsoft Research Asia).

• Earth Mover's Distance based Similarity Search at Scale,
  Yu Tang, Leong Hou U, Yilun Cai, Nikos Mamoulis, Reynold Cheng,
  [VLDB] the 40th International Conference on Very Large Data Bases (VLDB 2014).
• Scaling Similarity Joins over Tree-Structured Data,
  Yu Tang, Yilun Cai, Nikos Mamoulis,
  [VLDB] the 41st International Conference on Very Large Data Bases (VLDB 2015).
• Maximizing a Record's Standing in a Relation,
  Yu Tang*, Yilun Cai*, Nikos Mamoulis (* indicates equal contribution),
  [TKDE] IEEE Transactions on Knowledge and Data Engineering (IEEE TKDE).
• Joint Search by Social and Spatial Proximity,
  Kyriakos Mouratidis, Jing Li, Yu Tang, Nikos Mamoulis,
  [TKDE] IEEE Transactions on Knowledge and Data Engineering (IEEE TKDE).
• Voronoi-based Nearest Neighbor Search for Multi-Dimensional Uncertain Databases,
  Peiwu Zhang, Reynold Cheng, Nikos Mamoulis, Matthias Renz, Andreas Züfle, Yu Tang, Tobias Emrich,
  [ICDE] the 29th IEEE International Conference on Data Engineering (ICDE 2013).
• Maximizing a Record's Standing in a Relation (short paper),
  Yu Tang, Yilun Cai, Nikos Mamoulis,
  [ICDE] the 32nd IEEE International Conference on Data Engineering (ICDE 2016).
• Joint Search by Social and Spatial Proximity (short paper),
  Kyriakos Mouratidis, Jing Li, Yu Tang, Nikos Mamoulis,
  [ICDE] the 32nd IEEE International Conference on Data Engineering (ICDE 2016).

• Gold Medal, 34th ACM International Collegiate Programming Contest, Asia Regional.
• Gold Medal, 35th ACM International Collegiate Programming Contest, Asia Regional.
• Postgraduate Scholarships (tuition and stipends), The University of Hong Kong.
• Professor Ram Kumar Travel Fellowship, ICDE 2016.
• VLDB Travel Fellowship, VLDB 2014.

• Reviewer (invited):
  • ACM SIGMOD Reproducibility: 2015.
  • IEEE Transactions on Knowledge and Data Engineering (IEEE TKDE): 2015, 2014, 2013.
• External Reviewer:
  • Conference: SIGMOD '15, VLDB '13, ICDE '14/'13, EDBT '15, KDD '14/'13, CIKM '12, ICDM '12, SDM '14/'13.
  • Journal: VLDB Journal '13, IEEE TKDE '14/'13.