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Weiyi Meng

Professor
Room N4, Engineering Building
Department of Computer Science
Watson School of Engineering
Binghamton University
Binghamton, NY 13902
Phone: (607) 777-4311
Fax: (607) 777-4729
Email: meng@cs.binghamton.edu

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 International World Wide Web Conference.

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
Adjunct Professor (honorary), School of Computer Science, Sichuan University, China
President, Webscalers, LLC.

Teaching Schedule of Fall 2008

CS634 Web Data Management, 8:30am-9:55am, Tuesday and Thursday. Click here to see the tentative syllabus.
Classroom: FA-346.
Office hour: 2:00pm - 3:00pm, Tuesday and Thursday, or by appointment.

Main Current University Services

Chair of the Department Graduate Committee
Member of Graduate Council
Member of Advisory Committee for Scholarship and Research
Member of the Search Committee for Associate Dean of Watson School

Research Interests

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

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

Book

Principles of Database Query Processing for Advanced Applications

Clement Yu, Weiyi Meng

Morgan Kaufmann Publishers, 1998

Selected Recent Professional Activities (click here for a more complete list)

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 four PhD students and five MS students.

Selected Recent Publications (click here for complete list)

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)
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.
Yiyao Lu, Weiyi Meng, Liangcai Shu, Clement Yu, and King-Lup Liu. Evaluation of Result Merging Strategies for Metasearch Engines . 6th International Conference on Web Information Systems Engineering (WISE05) , pp.53-66, New York City, November 2005.
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.

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Last change: July 9, 2008 / meng@cs.binghamton.edu