Hong Wei
   
  Ph.D. (graduated in May 2020)

     Department of Computer Science
     University of Maryland


     Office: 4112 Iribe Center
     Email: hyw [at] umd [dot] edu
     Google Scholar

 



Biography

I defended my Ph.D. thesis in May 2020, and am now a research scientist at Facebook. While in the Ph.D. program, I was working with Prof. Hanan Samet in the Department of Computer Science at University of Maryland. Before the Ph.D. study, I completed my master degree at Department of Computer Science & Engineering at Shanghai Jiao Tong University under the advisory of Prof. Yanmin Zhu. I hold my Bachelor's degree from the School of Software majoring in Software Engineering at Huazhong University of Science and Technology in 2011.

Research Interests

My research interests are in the areas of spatial computing and spatial data mining.

Professional Activities

● PC Member of ACM SIGSPATIAL, 2020
● PC Member of W-NUT, 2020
● PC Member of SPACOMM, 2020
● PC Member of GEOProcessing, 2019-2020
● PC Member of ACM SIGSPATIAL LENS, 2019
● PC Member of ACM SIGSPATIAL GeoAI, 2019
● Reviewer for Graphical Models, 2020
● Reviewer for SPACOMM, 2020
● Reviewer for GEOProcessing, 2020
● Reviewer for ACM SIGSPATIAL LENS, 2019
● Reviewer for ACM SIGSPATIAL GeoAI, 2019
● Reviewer for IEEE Transactions on Computers, 2019
● Reviewer for IEEE Transactions on Emerging Topics in Computing, 2019
● Reviewer for IEEE Transactions on Dependable and Secure Computing, 2019
● Reviewer for ACM Transactions on Spatial Algorithms and Systems, 2018
● Reviewer for IEEE Transactions on Knowledge and Data Engineering, 2017 and 2019-2020
● Reviewer for IEEE Transactions on Automation Science and Engineering, 2017
● Reviewer for European Symposium on Algorithms, 2017
● Reviewer for Distributed and Parallel Databases, 2013

Honors and Awards

● ACM SIGSPATIAL NSF Travel Grant, 2017-2019
● Jacob K. Goldhaber Travel Grant, University of Maryland, 2018
● Outstanding Graduate Assistant, University of Maryland, 2018
● ACM SIGSPATIAL GIS CUP, 2012-2013 and 2016
● Best Teaching Award, University of Maryland, 2015
● Dean's Scholarship, University of Maryland, 2014 and 2015
● Best Video Award on MobiSys 2013
● Scholarship for Graduates, Shanghai Jiao Tong University, 2011-2012

Publications

● Hanan Samet, Yunheng Han, John Kastner, Hong Wei, "Using Animation to Visualize Spatio-Temporal Varying COVID-19 Data"; ACM SIGSPATIAL COVID-19 2020, pdf

Hong Wei, Jagan Sankaranarayanan, Hanan Samet, "Enhancing Local Live Tweet Stream to Detect News"; GeoInformatica, 24:411-441, 2020, pdf

Hong Wei, Janit Anjaria, Hanan Samet, "Learning Embeddings of Spatial, Textual and Temporal Entities in Geotagged Tweets"; ACM SIGSPATIAL 2019, pdf

Hong Wei, Hao Zhou, Jagan Sankaranarayanan, Sudipta Sengupta, Hanan Samet, "DeLLe: Detecting Latest Local Events from Geotagged Tweets"; ACM SIGSPATIAL LENS 2019, pdf

Hong Wei, Hao Zhou, Jagan Sankaranarayanan, Sudipta Sengupta, Hanan Samet, "Detecting Latest Local Events from Geotagged Tweet Streams"; ACM SIGSPATIAL 2018, pdf

Hong Wei, Riccardo Fellegara, Yin Wang, Leila De Floriani, Hanan Samet, "Multi-Level Filtering to Retrieve Similar Trajectories under the Fréchet Distance"; ACM SIGSPATIAL 2018, pdf

Hong Wei, Jagan Sankaranarayanan, Hanan Samet, "Enhancing Local Live Tweet Stream to Detect News"; ACM SIGSPATIAL LENS 2018, pdf

Hong Wei, Hao Zhou, Jagan Sankaranarayanan, Sudipta Sengupta, Hanan Samet, "Residual Convolutional LSTM for Tweet Count Prediction"; WWW MSM 2018, pdf

Hong Wei, Jagan Sankaranarayanan, Hanan Samet, "Measuring Spatial Influence of Twitter Users by Interactions"; ACM SIGSPTIAL LENS 2017, pdf

● Faizan Wajid, Hong Wei, Hanan Samet, "Identifying Short-Names for Place Entities from Social Networks"; ACM SIGSPTIAL LocalRec 2017, pdf

Hong Wei, Jagan Sankaranarayanan, Hanan Samet, "Finding and Tracking Local Twitter Users for News Detection "; ACM SIGSPTIAL 2017, pdf

● Shangfu Peng, Hong Wei, Hao Li, Hanan Samet, "Simplification and Refinement for Speedy Spatio-temporal Hot Spot Detection Using Spark "; ACM SIGSPTIAL GIS 2016, pdf

Yanmin Zhu, Yin Wang, George Forman, Hong Wei, "Mining Large-Scale GPS Streams for Connectivity Refinement of Road Maps"; The Computer Journal 58 (9), 2109-2119, 2015 pdf

● Tianyu Zhou, Hong Wei, Heng Zhang, Yin Wang, Haibo Chen, Yanmin Zhu, "Point-Polygon Topological Relationship Query using Hierarchical Indices"; ACM SIGSPTIAL GIS 2013, pdf

Hong Wei, Yin Wang, George Forman, Yanmin Zhu, "Map Matching: Comparison of Approaches using Sparse and Noisy Data"; ACM SIGSPTIAL 2013, pdf

● Yin Wang, Hong Wei, George Forman, Yanmin Zhu, "Mining Large-Scale GPS Streams for Connectivity Refinement of Road Maps"; ACM SIGSPTIAL 2013, pdf

● Yin Wang, Xuemei Liu, Hong Wei, George Forman, Chao Chen, Yanmin Zhu, "CrowdAtlas: Self-Updating Maps for Cloud and Personal Use"; MobiSys 2013, pdf

● Yin Wang, Xuemei Liu, Hong Wei, George Forman, Yanmin Zhu, "Video: CrowdAtlas: Self-Updating Maps for Cloud and Personal Use"; MobiSys 2013 Video, video

Hong Wei, Yin Wang, George Forman, Yanmin Zhu, Haibing Guan, "Fast Viterbi Map Matching with Tunable Weight Functions"; ACM SIGSPTIAL GIS 2012, pdf

Professional Activities

Local Arrangement Chair of CCGrid 2009
Local Arrangement Chair of HPSR 2008



Last modified: Nov. 23, 2020