Kai Zheng    
PhD Student
School of Information Technology & Electrical Engineering
The University of Queensland
Brisbane QLD 4072 Australia


Office: 642, Building 78, Staff House Road, St Lucia Campus(map)
Email: kevinz@itee.uq.edu.au
Tel: +61-7-3365-1153


Kai Zheng is currently a PhD student with the Data and Knowledge Engineering Research Group, School of Information Technology & Electrical Engineering at the University of Queensland. He received his bachelor degree (honor) and master degree of computer science from Tongji University in 2006 and Fudan University in 2009 respectively. Then he joined UQ as a PhD student under the supervision of Professor Xiaofang Zhou. His research interests include efficient query processing in spatio-temporal database, uncertain data management, trajectory search and mining.



Publications
  • "Spatial Query Processing for Fuzzy Objects", K. Zheng, X. Zhou, P. C. Fung and K. Xie. The VLDB Journal (accepted in Jan 2012).
  • "User Oriented Trajectory Search for Trip Recommendation", S. Shang, R. Ding, B. Yuan, K. Xie, K. Zheng and P. Kalnis. EDBT 2012, Berlin, Germany, March 26-30, 2012.
  • "Reducing Uncertainty of Low-Sampling-Rate Trajectories", K. Zheng, Y. Zheng, X. Xie and X. Zhou, ICDE 2012, April 2012, Washington DC, USA.
  • "PNN Query Processing on Compressed Trajectories", S. Shang, B. Yuan, K. Deng, K. Xie, K. Zheng and X. Zhou, Geoinformatica (accepted in September 2011).
  • "Trajectory Indexing and Retrieval", K. Deng, K. Xie, K. Zheng and X. Zhou, Springer press, 2011. Book chapter in "Computing with Spatial Trajectories", ISBN: 978-1-4614-1628-9
  • "Discovering the Most Influential Sites over Uncertain Data: A Rank Based Approach", K. Zheng, Z. Huang, A. Zhou and X. Zhou, IEEE Transactions on Knowledge and Data Engineering (accepted in May 2011).
  • "Probabilistic Range Queries for Uncertain Trajectories on Road Networks", K. Zheng, G. Trajcevski, X. Zhou and P. Scheuermann, EDBT 2011, March 2011, Sweden.
  • "Fuzzy Nearest Neighbour Query Processing", X. Zhou and K. Zheng, National Database Conference of China (NDBC 2010),Beijing, Keynote speech
  • "K-Nearest Neighbor Search for Fuzzy Objects", K. Zheng, P.C. Fung and X. Zhou, SIGMOD 2010, June 2010, Indianapolis, USA.
  • "Transitivity-Preserving Skylines for Partially Ordered Domains", Henning Köhler, K. Zheng, J. Yang and X. Zhou, DASFAA 2010, Japan
  • "Efficient best path monitoring in road networks for instant local traffic information", S. Shang, K. Deng and K. Zheng, ADC 2010, Brisbane, Australia
Work Experience
  • Visiting Scholar, Microsoft Research Asia, Beijing, Aug 2011 - Nov 2011
  • Visiting Scholar, Microsoft Research Asia, Beijing, Aug 2010 - Nov 2010
  • Business Intelligence Specialist, The Dow Chemical Company, Shanghai, Sep 2007 - Dec 2007
  • Software Develop Engineer, Microsoft Window Live Centre, Shanghai, Jul 2005 - Jun 2006
Honors and Awards
  • ITEE PhD International Living Allowance Scholarships from UQ, Feb 2009 - Dec 2011
  • International Research Tuition Award (UQIRTA) from UQ, Feb 2009 - Dec 2011
  • ARC Research Network in Enterprise Information Infrastructure Fellowship, Aug 2010 - Nov 2010