Xiaofang Zhou - Professional Activities

Steering Committee Member Asia Pacific Web Conferences (APWeb) (Chair, 2000-2009) APWeb conferences at DBLP

Executive Committee Member, Web Information Systems Engineering Society WISE conferences at DBLP

Editorial Board Member

• VLDB Journal
  
• IEEE Transactions on Knowledge and Data Engineering
• World Wide Web Journal (published by Springer)
• Journal of Information Processing (published by Information Processing Society of Japan)
  
• Encyclopedia of Database Systems (published in 2008 publication by Springer)
• Information Processing Letters (2009-2010, published by Elservier)
• International Journal of Multimedia Data Engineering and Management (IJMDEM)
• WISE Book Series, published by Springer
• Tamkang Journal of Science and Engineering, an international journal, Taiwan
• International Journal of Web and Grid Services (IJWGS)
• International Journal of Social Network Mining
  

Keynote and Plenary Speeches

• "Location Significance Ranking from Quality Enhanced Trajectory Data", X. Zhou, Joint Conference of the Sixth International Conference on Embedded and Multimedia Computing and the 4th International Conference on Human-Centric Computing (HumanCom/EMC 2011), August 2011, Enshi, China
• "Data Management in Open Environment", Taobao Tech Festival, July 2011, hangzhou, China.
  
• "Making Sense of Trajectory Data", X. Zhou, 1st IEEE International Conference on Spatial Data Mining and Geographical Knowledge Services, June 2011, Fuzhou, China.
  
• "Fuzzy Nearest Neighbour Query Processing", X. Zhou and K. Zheng, National Database Conference of China (NDBC 2010), Beijing, China.
  
• "Building the World from Views", X. Zhou and H. Koehler, WAIM 2010, Chengdu, China
• "Data Quality in Web Information Systems", The 9th International Conference on Web Information Systems Engineering (WISE 2008), Sept 2008, Auckland, New Zealand.
• "Content-Based Video Search: is there a need, and is it possible?", the First International Workshop on Information-explosion and Next Generation Search (INGS), April 2008, Shenyang, China.
• "Data Quality - The Key Success Factor for Data Driven Engineering", IEEE/IFIP International Workshop on Frontier of Data-Driven Engineering (FDDE 2007), in conjunction with IFIP International Conference on Network and Parallel Computing (NPC 2007), 17-18 September 2007, Dalian, China.
• "Spatial Databases and their Applications"2001 SIGMOD Japan Annual Conference, November 2001, Tokyo, Japan.
• "Adding a Spatial dimension to WWW", the 3rd Asia Pacific Web Conference, October 2000, Xi'an, China.
• "Spatial Internet Marketplaces", the 1st Asian Pacific Web Conference (APWeb98), September 1998, Beijing, China.

Conference Chairs

• No longer updated since 2009
  
• [Vice Program Committee Chair] The 25th International Conference on Data Engineering (ICDE 2009), March 2009, Shanghai, China.
• [General Chair] The Joint Asia Pacific Web Conference (APWeb) and Web Age Information Management (WAIM) Conference, Suzhou, China, 1-3 April, 2009.
• [Tutorial Chair] The 6h International Conference on Service Oriented Computing (ICSOC 2008), 1-5 December 2008, Sydney, Australia.
• [General Chair] The Fourth International Conference on Advanced Data Mining and Applications (ADMA 2008), Chengdu, China, 29-31 July, 2008.
• [Tutorial Chair] The 34th International Conference on Very Large Databases (VLDB 2008), 24-30 August 2008, Auckland, New Zealand.
• [Workshop and Tutorial Chair] The 9th International Conference on Web Information Systems Engineering (WISE 2008),>Sept 2008, Auckland, New Zealand.
• [Workshop Chair] The 23rd International Conference on Data Engineering (ICDE 2006), April 3-7, 2006, Atlanta, USA.
• [Program Committee Chair] The 8th Asia Pacific Web Conference (APWeb 2006), 16 - 18 January, 2006, Harbin, China.
• [General Chair] The First International Conference on Advanced Data Mining and Applications (ADMA 2005), Wuhan, China, 22 - 24 July, 2005.
• [General Chair, Oceania]  Human.Society@Internet 2005 Conference, 27 - 29 July, 2005, Tokyo, Japan.
• [Demo Chair] The 22nd International Conference on Data Engineering (ICDE 2005), April 5-8, 2005, Tokyo, Japan.
• [Program Committee Chair] The 5th International Conference on Web Information Systems Engineering (WISE 2004),November 2004, Brisbane, Australia.
• [Tutorial Chair] The 6th Asia Pacific Web Conference (APWeb'2004), 14-17 April 2004, Hangzhou, China.
• [Program Committee Chair] The 5th Asia Pacific Web Conference (APWeb 2003), 23-25 April 2003, Xi'an, China.
• [Program Committee Chair] The 14th Australasian Database Conference (ADC 2003), 4-7 February 2003, Adelaide, Australia.
• [Program Committee Chair] The 13th Australasian Database Conference (ADC 2002), January 2002, Melbourne, Australia.
• [Tutorial Chair] The 3rd International Conference on Web Information System Engineering (WISE 2002), December 2002, Singapore.
• [Program Committee Chair] The 6th IFIP 2.6 Working Conference on Visual Database Systems (VDB6), May 2002, Brisbane.
• [Workshop Chair] The 1st International Conference on Web Information Systems Engineering (WISE 2000), June 2000, Hong Kong.

Program Committee Membership the full list no longer maintaind after 2007 [pre-2007 full list]

• No longer updated since 2009
  
• The 35th International Conference on Very Large Databases (VLDB 2009), 24-28 August 2009, Lyons, France.
• The 18th International World Wide Web Conference (WWW 2009), 20-24 April 2009, Madrid, Spain.
• The 29th ACM SIGMOD International Conference on Management of Data (SIGMOD 2009), June 2009, Rhode Island, USA.
• The 34th International Conference on Very Large Databases (VLDB 2008), 24-30 August 2008, Auckland, New Zealand.
• The 28th ACM SIGMOD International Conference on Management of Data (SIGMOD 2008), Vancouver, Canada.
• The 17th International World Wide Web Conference (WWW 2008), 21-25 April 2008, Beijing, China.
• The 27th ACM SIGMOD International Conference on Management of Data (SIGMOD 2007), June 2007, Beijing, China.
• The 24th International Conference on Data Engineering (ICDE 2007), April 17-20, 2007, Istanbul, Turkey.
• The 23rd International Conference on Data Engineering (ICDE 2006), April 3-7, 2006, Atlanta, USA.
• The15th International Conference on World Wide Web (WWW 2006), May 23-26, 2006, Edinburgh, UK.
• The 10th International Conference on Extending DataBase Technology (EDBT 2006), 27-31 March, 2006, Munich, Germany.
• The 26th IEEE International Conference on Distributed Computing Systems (ICDCS 2006), July 4-7, 2006, Lisbon, Portugal.
• The 22nd International Conference on Data Engineering (ICDE 2005), April 5-8, 2005, Tokyo, Japan.

Invited Lecturer

• No longer updated since 2009
  
• VLDB Database School (China), 2002
• Ewha Womans University (Korea), July 2004
• Tamkang University (Taiwan), May 2006
• Renmin University (China), December 2006
• Nanjing University (China), July 2008

Guest Editor

• Journal of Applied System Studies: Special Issue on "Web Information Systems Applications", Vol.3, ,No. 2, 2002.
• World Wide Web Journal Special Issue on "Multimedia information and retrieval", Vol. 6, No.2, May 2003, Kluwer Academic Publishers (with Pearl Pu and Qing Li).

Tutorial Presenter

• (with S. Sadiq and K. Deng) "Research and Practice in Data Quality", APWeb 2008, Shenyang, China.
• (with H. T. Shen) "Video Sequence Indexing and Retrieval", DASFAA 2006, Singapore

Panelist

• WAIM 2004, April 2004, Hangzhou, China
• ADMA 2005, August 2005, Wuhan, China
• DASFAA 2006, April 2006, Singapore

Visitorship

• 2007 - 2010, Concurrent Professor, Nanjing University, CHina
• 2007 - 2010, Guest Professor, Renmin University, China
• November 2008 - January 2009, Visiting Professor, Nagoya University, Japan (Host, Prof Yoshiharu Ishikawa)
• December 2007 - January 2008, Distinguished Visiting Professor, Institute of Software, Chinese Academy of Sciences, Beijing, China (Host: Prof Mingshu Li and Prof Zhiming Ding)
• May 2006, Visiting Researcher, Wuhan University, China (Host: Prof Zhiyong Peng)
• Jan - June 2006, Visiting Senior Fellow, School of Computer Systems Engineering, Nanyang Technological University, Singapore (Hosts: A/Prof Ee Peng Lim) - on sabbatical from UQ
• December 2004, Visiting Professor, Microsoft Research Asia (Host: Dr Wei-Ying Ma)
• August 2002, Visiting Scholar, Department of System Engineering and Engineering Management, the Chinese University of Hong Kong (Host: Prof Jeffrey Yu)
• July - December 2002, Visiting Senior Fellow, Department of Computer Science, National University of Singapore (Hosts: Prof Beng Chin Ooi and A/Prof Kian Lee Tan) - on sabbatical from UQ
• August - November 2001, TAO Research Fellow, Institute of Industrial Science, The University of Tokyo, Japan (Host: Prof Masaru Kitsuregawa)
• December 2000 - January 2001, Visiting Researcher, The National Key Lab for Novel Software Technology at Nanjing University, China (Host: Prof Guihai Chen)

Other Activities

• November 2004: Microsoft Research Education Summit,  Beijing, China
• June 2006: The Greater China Database Summit, Hong Kong, China

Reviewer

• Australian Research Council (Large Grants) since 1995
• External Ph.D. and MSc. theses reviewer for many Universities in Australia and overseas
• Regular reviewers for a number of Australian and international journals, conferences and publishers