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 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 2013

• CS375 Design and Analysis of Algorithms,
  • Section A: 1:10-2:10pm, Monday, Wednesday and Friday.
  • Section B: 2:20-3:20pm, Monday, Wednesday and Friday.
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• Office Hours: 4:00pm - 5:00pm, Monday and Wednesday, or by appointment.
• Classroom: EB N25.

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, Information Trustworthiness Analysis, Web Data Quality, Web Information Extraction, Topic Sentiment Analysis, Database Management Systems

Active Research Projects

• Efficient and Effective Metasearch
• Integrated Access to Web Databases
• Truthfulness Analysis of Web Information
• Sentiment Analysis and Topic Sentiment Change Analysis
• Top-N Query Processing

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 Co-Chair of the International Conference on Database Systems for Advanced Applications (DASFAA), 2013.
• Program Committee member of the ACM International Conference on Knowledge Discovery and Data Mining (KDD), 2013.
• Program Committee member of the Demo track of the IEEE International Conference on Data Engineering (ICDE), 2013.
• Program Committee member of the 14th International Conference on Web-Age Information Management (WAIM), 2013.
• Program Committee member of the Asia Pacific Web Conference (APWeb), 2013.
• Program Committee member of the International Conference on Web Information System Engineering (WISE), 2013.
• Program Committee member of the International Workshop on Web Information and Data Management (WIDM), 2012.
• 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.
• Chair of the Steering Committee of the International Conference on Web-Age Information Management (WAIM), since September 2012.
• Editorial Board of World Wide Web Journal, since 2010.
• Editorial Board of Frontiers of Computer Science, since 2011.
• Editorial Review Board of Journal of Database Management, since 2001

Student Supervision

• Weiyi Meng has supervised 10 PhD dissertations and 61 Masters theses/projects.
• Weiyi Meng is supervising three PhD students and two MS students.

Books

Weiyi Meng, Clement Yu. Advanced Metasearch Engine Technology. Morgan & Claypool Publishers, December 2010.
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Eduard Dragut, Weiyi Meng, Clement Yu. Deep Web Query Interface Understanding and Integration. Morgan & Claypool Publishers, 2012.
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Selected Recent Publications (click here for complete list)

1. 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.
2. 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.
3. Eduard Dragut, Fang Fang, Prasad Sistla, Clement Yu, Weiyi Meng. Stop Word and Related Problems in Web Interface Integration. 35th International Conference on Very Large Data Bases (VLDB), pp.349-360, Lyon, France, August 2009.
4. Eduard Dragut, Fang Fang, Prasad Sistla, Clement Yu, Weiyi Meng. Stop Word and Related Problems in Web Interface Integration. Proc. of the VLDB Endowment (PVLDB), 2(1), pp.349-360, August 2009.
5. 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.
6. 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.
7. 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.
8. Eduard C. Dragut, Hong Wang, Clement Yu, A. Prasad Sistla and Weiyi Meng. Polarity Consistency Checking for Sentiment Dictionaries. Annual Meeting of the Association for Computational Linguistics (ACL), pp.997-1005, Jeju Island, Korea, July 2012.
9. Yiyao Lu, Hai He, Hongkun Zhao, Weiyi Meng, Clement Yu. Annotating Search Results From Web Databases. IEEE Transactions on Knowledge and Data Engineering (TKDE), 25(3), pp.514-527, March 2013.
10. Xian Li, Xin Luna Dong, Kenneth B. Lyons, Weiyi Meng, and Divesh Srivastava. Truth Finding on the Deep Web: Is the Problem Solved? Proc. of the VLDB Conference, Riva del Garda, Trento, Italy, August 2013 (to appear).

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