Recent Progress on Selected Topics in Database Research--A Report by Nine Young Chinese Researchers Working in the United States
Recent Progress on Selected Topics in Database Research ——-A Report by Nine Young Chinese Researchers Working in the United States

The study on database technologies, or more generally, the technologies of data and information management, is an important and active research field. Recently, many exciting results have been reported. In this fast growing field, Chinese researchers play more and more active roles. Research papers from Chinese scholars, both in China and abroad, appear in prestigious academic forums. In this paper, we, nine young Chinese researchers working in the United States, present concise surveys and report our recent progress on the selected fields that we are working on. Although the paper covers only a small number of topics and the selection of the topics is far from balanced, we hope that such an effort would attract more and more researchers, especially those in China, to enter the frontiers of database research and promote collaborations. For the obvious reason, the authors are listed alphabetically, while the sections are arranged in the order of the author list. Zhiyuan Chen is currently a post-doctoral researcher at Microsoft Research, Redmond, WA. He received his B.S. (1995) and M.S. (1997) degrees from Fudan University, China. From 1997 to 2002, he was a graduate student at Cornell University under the guidance of Prof. Johanues Gehrke and Praveen Seshadri. He received his Ph.D. degree in August, 2002. His research interests include automatic database tuning and administration, database compression, selectivity estimation, and XML indexing. Chen Li is an assistant professor in the School of Information and Computer Science at the University of California, Irvine. He received his Ph.D. degree in computer science from Stanford University in 2001, and his B.S. degree in computer science from Tsinghua University, China. His research interests are in the fields of database and information systems, including data integration, data warehouses, data cleansing, multimedia databases, and XML. Jian Pei received the B.Eng and the M.Eng degrees, both in computer science, from Shanghai Jiaotong University, China, in 1991 and 1993, respectively, and the Ph.D. degree in Computing Science from Simon Fraser University, Canada, in 2002. He was a Ph.D. candidate in Peking University in 1997–1999. He is currently an Assistant Professor of Computer Science and Engineering, the State University of New York at Buffalo, USA. His research interests include data mining, data warehousing, online analytical processing, database systems, and bio-informatics. He is a member of the editorial board of the ACM SIGMOD Digital Symposium Collection (DiSC) and a guest editor of Journal of Computer Science and Technology. He has served in the program committees of international conferences and workshops, and has been a reviewer for some leading academic journals in his fields. He is a member of the ACM, the ACM SIGMOD, the ACM SIGKDD and the IEEE Computer Society, and a professional member of the ASEE. He is the Chair of the East Coast Regional Chapter of ACM SIGKDD. Yufei Tao becam