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, topic sentiment
change analysis, information trustworthiness analysis, and database
management systems. He is the co-author of three books ( Principles
of Database Query Processing for Advanced Applications,
Advanced Metasearch Engine Technology and Deep Web Query
Interface Understanding and Integration). He has
published over 120 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. His publications have been
cited by other researchers
more than 3,000 times. 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:
- Director of the database
laboratory located in the Department of
Computer Science at Binghamton University
- Chair of the Graduate Studies Committee of Watson School
- Chair of the Graduate Committee of Computer Science Department
- Guest Professor (honorary), School of Information, Renmin University, China
Teaching Schedule of Spring 2012
- CS432 Database Systems 8:30-9:30am, Monday, Wednesday and Friday.
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here to see the tentative syllabus.
Office Hours: 2:00pm - 3:00pm, Monday and Wednesday, or by appointment.
Classroom: LN G209.
- CS433/CS533 Information Retrieval 10:50am-11:50am, Monday, Wednesday and Friday.
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here to see the tentative syllabus.
Office Hours: 2:00pm - 3:00pm, Monday and Wednesday, or by appointment.
Classroom: SW 329.
Main Current University Services
- Chair of the Department Graduate Committee
- Chair of the Watson School's Graduate Studies Committee
- 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, Web 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
10th
International Workshop on Quality in DataBases (QDB), 2012.
- Program Committee member of the
21st ACM Conference on Information and Knowledge Management (CIKM),
2012.
- Program Committee member and publicity co-chair of the
13th
International Conference on Web-Age Information Management (WAIM), 2012.
- Program Committee member of the
International
Conference on Web Information System Engineering (WISE), 2012.
- Program Committee member of the
International
workshop on Information Integration on the Web (IIWeb), 2012.
- Program Committee member of the
International
Conference on Database Systems for Advanced Applications (DASFAA),
2012.
- Program Committee member of the
14th Asia
Pacific Web Conference (APWeb), 2012.
- Program Committee member of the
20th ACM Conference on Information and Knowledge Management (CIKM),
2011.
- Program Committee member of the
International
Conference on Web Information System Engineering (WISE), 2011.
- Program Committee member and publicity co-chair of the
12th
International Conference on Web-Age Information Management (WAIM), 2011.
- Program Committee member of the
13rd Asia
Pacific Web Conference (APWeb), 2011.
- Program Committee member of the
International
Conference on Database Systems for Advanced Applications (DASFAA),
2011.
- Editorial Board of World Wide Web Journal,
since 2010.
- Editorial Board of
Frontiers of Computer Science, since 2011.
Student Supervision
- Weiyi Meng has supervised eight PhD dissertations and 59 Masters
theses/projects.
- Weiyi Meng is supervising four PhD students and three MS students.
Books
Clement Yu, Weiyi Meng. Principles of Database Query
Processing for Advanced Applications. Morgan Kaufmann Publishers, 1998.
Weiyi Meng, Clement Yu.
Advanced Metasearch Engine Technology. Morgan & Claypool Publishers,
December 2010.
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here to download this book.
Eduard Dragut, Weiyi Meng, Clement Yu. Deep Web Query Interface
Understanding and Integration, Morgan & Claypool Publishers, 2012 (to appear).
Selected Recent Publications (click
here for complete list)
- 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.
- 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,
Vol.22, No.3, pp.447-460, March 2010.
- Xian Li, Weiyi Meng, Clement Yu.
T-verifier: Verifying Truthfulness of Fact Statements.
IEEE International Conference on Data Engineering (ICDE), pp.63-74,
Hannover, Germany, April 2011.
- Liangcai Shu, Aiyou Chen, Ming Xiong, Weiyi Meng.
Efficient Spectral
Neighborhood Blocking for Entity Resolution. IEEE
International Conference on Data Engineering (ICDE), pp.1067-1078,
Hannover, Germany, April 2011.
- Yiyao Lu, Hai He, Hongkun Zhao, Weiyi Meng, Clement Yu.
Annotating Search Results From Web Databases. IEEE Transactions
on Knowledge and Data Engineering (TKDE) (to appear).
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Last change: May 6, 2012 / meng@cs.binghamton.edu