Speaker: Prof Chengqi Zhang, University of Technology Sydney Australia

Time：14:00-15:00, January 8, 2016

Venue: Room 310, Third Floor, Office Building, Software Campus

Host: Prof. Lizhen Cui

Title: Graph Processing and Mining in the Era of Big Data

Abstract: With the emergence and rapid proliferation of applications that deal with big graphs, graph processing and mining has become increasingly prevalent and important in recent years. In this talk, I will first investigate the new challenges for graph processing and mining in the era of big data. To tackle these challenges, I will introduce the recent research developments in QCIS in terms of new graph query semantics, new graph mining tasks, new query processing algorithms, new graph indexing techniques, and new computing paradigms. Finally, I will show our current achievements in building a general-purpose graph processing and mining system in QCIS center, and discuss our potential future research directions.

Bio: Chengqi Zhang has been appointed as a Research Professor of Information Technology at the University of Technology Sydney (UTS) since December 2001. He has been the Director of the UTS Research Centre for Quantum Computation & Intelligent Systems (QCIS) since April 2008. Prof. Zhang’s key areas of research are Distributed Artificial Intelligence, Data Mining and its applications. He has published more than 200 refereed research papers.

Prof. Zhang is a Fellow of the Australian Computer Society (ACS) and a Senior Member of the IEEE Computer Society (IEEE). He has been the Chair of the Australian Computer Science National Committee on Artificial Intelligence from 2005 till now. He was General Co-Chair of PAKDD 2014, WI/IAT 2018, ICDM 2010, and KDD 2015. He is also Local Arrangements Chair of IJCAI 2017.