Weiyi Meng
Weiyi Meng is currently a professor in the Department of Computer Science,
State University of New York at Binghamton. He received his Ph.D. in
computer science from University of Illinois at Chicago in 1992. At the
same year, he joined his current department as a faculty member. His
research interests include metasearch engines, Web database integration,
Internet-based information retrieval, information extraction, opinion
retrieval and database management systems. He is the co-author of the
book Principles of Database Query Processing for Advanced
Applications. He has published over 100 papers and many of them
in top conferences and journals in his research areas, including ACM SIGMOD,
VLDB, IEEE ICDE, WWW, KDD, ACM SIGIR, ACM TODS, ACM TOIS, and IEEE TKDE.
He has done pioneering work in large-scale metasearch engines. He is a
co-founder of an Internet company (Webscalers) and serves as its president.
Weiyi Meng also holds the following positions:
- Associate director of the Center for Computing Technologies (CCT)
at the Watson School
- Director of the database
laboratory located in the Department of
Computer Science at Binghamton University
- Chair of the Graduate Committee of Computer Science Department
- Guest Professor (honorary), School of Information, Renmin University, China
Teaching Schedule of Spring 2009
- CS432 Database Systems 9:40-10:40am, Monday, Wednesday and Friday.
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here to see the tentative syllabus.
Office Hours: 1:30pm - 2:30pm, Monday and Wednesday, or by appointment.
Classroom: LH012.
- CS532 Database Systems 8:30am-9:30am, Monday, Wednesday and Friday.
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here to see the tentative syllabus.
Office Hours: 1:30pm - 2:30pm, Monday and Wednesday, or by appointment.
Classroom: EB N25.
Main Current University Services
- Chair of the Department Graduate Committee
- Member of Graduate Council
- Member of Strategic Planning Committee of Graduate Council
- Coordinator of Dual-degree Program between Watson School and
School of Information of Renmin University
Research Interests
Metasearch Engines, Web Database Integration,
Internet-based Information Retrieval, Information Extraction,
Opinion Retrieval, Database Management Systems
Active Research Projects
Education
- Ph.D., Computer Science, 1992, University of Illinois at Chicago
- M.S., Computer Science, 1988, University of Illinois at Chicago
- B.S., Mathematics, 1982, Sichuan University, China
Selected Recent Professional Activities (click
here for a more
complete list)
- Program Committee member of the
26th IEEE International Conference on Data Engineering (ICDE), 2010.
- Guest editor of a special issue for Journal of Computer
Science and Technology, 2009.
- Program Committee member of the
18th ACM Conference on Information and Knowledge Management (CIKM),
2009.
- Program Committee member of the
International Conference
on Web Information Systems and Mining (WISM), 2009.
- Program Committee member of the
IEEE International
Conference on Web Services (ICWS), 2009.
- Program Committee member of the
The Joint International
Conferences on Asia-Pacific Web Conference (APWeb) and Web-Age
Information Management (WAIM), 2009
- Program Committee member of the
International
Workshop on Information Integration on the Web (IIWeb), 2009.
- Program Committee member of the
International Symposium on Database Theory and Application (DTA), 2009.
- Program Committee Co-Chair of the
Ninth
International Conference on Web-Age Information Management
(WAIM), 2008.
- Program Committee member of the
First International Workshop on the Semantic Web meets the
Deep Web (SWDW), 2008.
- Program Committee member of the
Fourth International Conference on Advanced Data Mining and Applications
(ADMA), 2008.
- Program Committee member of the
Seventeenth ACM
Conference on Information and Knowledge Management (CIKM), 2008.
- Program Committee member of the
10th Asia Pacific
Web Conference (APWeb), 2008
- Program Committee member of the
World Wide Web
conference (WWW in China track), 2008.
- Program Committee member of the
IEEE International
Conference on Web Services (ICWS), 2008.
- Area editor of
Encyclopedia of Database Systems (responsible for area
"IR Evaluation Measures"), 2007-2008.
Student Supervision
- Weiyi Meng has supervised six PhD dissertations and 52 Masters
theses/projects.
- Weiyi Meng is supervising five PhD students and five MS students.
Books
Clement Yu, Weiyi Meng. Principles of Database Query Processing
for Advanced Applications. Morgan Kaufmann Publishers, 1998.
Yan Jia, Weiyi Meng, Ning Jing (Edited). Proceedings of
2008 WAIM Conference, IEEE Computer Society CPS, 2008.
Selected Recent Publications (click
here for complete list)
- Fang Liu, Clement Yu, Weiyi Meng, and Abdur Chowdhury.
Effective Keyword
Search in Relational Databases. ACM
SIGMOD Conference, pp.563-374, Chicago, June 2006.
- 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.
- Eduard Dragut, Clement Yu, Weiyi Meng.
Meaningful Labeling of Integrated Query Interfaces
. 32nd International Conference on Very Large Data Bases
(VLDB06), pp.679-690, Seoul, Korea, September 2006.
- 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.
- 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.
- King-Lup Liu, Weiyi Meng, Jing Qiu, Clement Yu, Vijay
Raghavan, Zonghuan Wu, Yiyao Lu, Hai He, Hongkun Zhao.
AllInOneNews: Development and
Evaluation of a Large-Scale News Metasearch Engine.
26th ACM SIGMOD International Conference on Management of Data ACM
(SIGMOD 2007), Industrial track, pp.1017-1028, Beijing, China, June 2007.
- 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), pp.884-893, San Jose, California, August 2007.
- Liang Zhu, Weiyi Meng, Wenzhu Yang, Chunnian Liu.
Region Clustering Based
Evaluation of Multiple Top-N Selection Queries.
International Journal of Data & Knowledge Engineering, Vol.64,
No.2, pp.439-461, February 2008.
- Liangcai Shu, Bo Long, Weiyi Meng.
A Latent Topic Model for Complete Entity Resolution.
25th IEEE International Conference on Data Engineering (ICDE), pp.880-891,
Shanghai, China, March 2009.
- Wei Liu, Xiaofeng Meng, Weiyi Meng. ViDE: A Vision-based
Approach for Deep Web Data Extraction. IEEE Transactions on
Knowledge and Data Engineering (to appear).
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Last change: June 24, 2009 / meng@cs.binghamton.edu