Weiyi Meng received his Ph.D. from the Department of Electrical Engineering and Computer Science, University of Illinois at Chicago, in 1992. He joined the Department of Computer Science of Binghamton University in 1992. He is currently a professor. He is the co-author of the book Principles of Database Query Processing for Advanced Applications. He has published more than 100 papers in various journals and international conferences including ACM Transactions on Database Systems, ACM Transactions on Information Systems, IEEE Transactions on Knowledge and Data Engineering, International Conference on Very Large Data Bases, ACM SIGMOD Conference, ACM SIGIR Conference, IEEE International Conference on Data Engineering and World Wide Web Conference. Weiyi Meng is also the associate director of the Center for Computing Technologies (CCT) at the Watson School.

Research Interests

Internet-based Information Retrieval, Metasearch Engines, Web Database Integration, Database Systems, Query Processing and Optimization

Courses taught

• CS432: Database Systems
• CS532: Database Systems
• CS632: Advanced Database Systems
• CS634: Web Data Management

Selected Publications

• Hongkun Zhao, Weiyi Meng, and Clement Yu. Mining Templates from Search Result Records of Search Engines. 13th ACM International Conference on Knowledge Discovering and Data Mining (SIGKDD 2007), San Jose, California, August 2007.
• Hai He, Weiyi Meng, Yiyao Lu, Clement Yu, and Zonghuan Wu. Towards Deeper Understanding of the Search Interfaces of the Deep Web. World Wide Web Journal, Vol.10, No.2, pp.133-155, June 2007.
• Yiyao Lu, Hai He, Hongkun Zhao, Weiyi Meng, and Clement Yu. Annotating Structured Data of the Deep Web . IEEE 23rd International Conference on Data Engineering (ICDE 2007), pp.376-385, Istanbul, Turkey, April 2007.
• Hongkun Zhao, Weiyi Meng, Clement Yu. Automatic Extraction of Dynamic Record Sections From Search Engine Result Pages. 32nd International Conference on Very Large Data Bases (VLDB06), pp.989-1000, Seoul, Korea, September 2006.
• Fang Liu, Clement Yu, Weiyi Meng, and Abdur Chowdhury. Effective Keyword Search in Relational Databases. ACM SIGMOD Conference, pp.563-374, Chicago, June 2006.
• Yiyao Lu, Weiyi Meng, Liangcai Su, Clement Yu, and King-Lup Liu. Evaluation of Result Merging Strategies for Metasearch Engines. Proc. of 6th International Conference on Web Information Systems Engineering (WISE05), pp.53-66, New York City, November 2005.
• Hongkun Zhao, Weiyi Meng, Zonghuan Wu, Vijay Raghavan, and Clement Yu. Fully Automatic Wrapper Generation for Search Engines. Proc. of 14th International World Wide Web Conference (WWW14), pp.66-75, Chiba, Japan, May 2005.
• Fang Liu, Clement Yu, and Weiyi Meng. Personalized Web Search for Improving Retrieval Effectiveness. IEEE Transactions on Knowledge and Data Engineering, Vol.16, No.1, pp.28-40, January 2004.
• Hai He, Weiyi Meng, Clement Yu, and Zonghuan Wu. Automatic Integration of Web Search Interfaces with WISE-Integrator. VLDB Journal, Vol.13, No.3, pp.256-273, September 2004. (Special Issue for Best Papers of VLDB 2003).
• Weiyi Meng, Clement Yu, and King-Lup Liu. Building Efficient and Effective Metasearch Engines. ACM Computing Surveys, 34(1), March 2002, pp.48-84.