Haibo Hu
Tel: +852-3411-2421 (O)
Fax:+852-3411-7892
E-mail: haibo@comp.hkbu.edu.hk
URL: http://www.comp.hkbu.edu.hk/~haibo

Address:
Department of Computer Science
Hong Kong Baptist University
Kowloon Tong, Kowloon
Hong Kong

Doctor of Philosophy, Hong Kong University of Science and Technology   (HKUST), Hong Kong
Major in Computer Science, Supervised by Prof. Dik Lun Lee, Dissertation: “Spatial and Continuous Spatial Queries on Smart Mobile Clients”

09/1997-06/2001

Bachelor of Engineering, Shanghai JiaoTong University, China
Major in Computer Science and Engineering, Minor in Finance

Research Assistant Professor, Department of Computer Science, HKBU

09/2008 – 08/2010

Assistant Professor, Department of Computer Science, HKBU

• Teach full-time undergraduate courses "Build Attractive and Interactive Web Graphics”, “Photo, Music and Video Processing”
• Conduct research in privacy-aware mobile database

09/2006 – 08/2008

Postdoctoral (Teaching) Fellow, Department of Computer Science, HKBU

• Teach full-time undergraduate courses "Computer Organization", “Data Communications and Networking”, and “Object-oriented Programming”
• Conduct research in privacy-aware mobile and sensor database.

09/2005 – 08/2006

Postdoctoral Fellow, Department of Computer Science, HKUST

• Served as the co-investigator of RGC/CERG grant HKUST6158/06E “Semantic Location Modeling, Distance Browsing and Query Processing for Mobile Indoor Applications”.

02/2003 – 08/2005

Research Assistant, Department of Computer Science, HKUST

• Conducted research in mobile and location-based services
• Published papers in leading journals and conferences, including ACM SIGMOD, VLDB, IEEE TKDE, ICDE, EDBT, and ACM/Kluwer Journal of Wireless Networks (WINET).

09/2004 – 01/2005

Co-instructor of a graduate course “Mobile Computing” in Department of Computer Science, HKUST

09/2001 – 01/2003

Teaching Assistant, Department of Computer Science, HKUST

• Courses in computer languages (C++, Java) and information retrieval.

• H. Hu, J. Xu, S. T. On, J. Du, and K. Y. Ng. “Privacy-Aware Location Data Publishing”. ACM Transactions on Database Systems (TODS), 35(3), July 2010.

• H. Hu and J. Xu. "2PASS: Bandwidth-Optimized Location Cloaking for Anonymous Location-Based Services." IEEE Transactions on Parallel and Distributed Systems (TPDS), 21(10): 1458-1472, October 2010.

• H. Hu, J. Xu and D. L. Lee. “PAM: An Efficient and Privacy-Aware Monitoring Framework for Continuously Moving Objects.” IEEE Transactions on Data and Knowledge Engineering (TKDE), 22(3): 404-419, March 2010.

• J. Xu, X. Tang, H. Hu and J. Du. “Privacy-Conscious Location-Based Queries in Mobile Environments.” IEEE Transactions on Parallel and Distributed Systems (TPDS), 21(3): 313-326, March 2010.

• S. T. On, H. Hu, Y. Li, and J. Xu. “Flash-Optimized B+-Tree.” Journal of Computer Science and Technology (JCST), 25(3): 509-522, 2010.

• H. Hu and D. L. Lee. "Range Nearest Neighbor Search." IEEE Transactions on Data and Knowledge Engineering (TKDE), Volume 18, Number 1, 2006.

• H. Hu and D. L. Lee. “Energy-Efficient Monitoring of Spatial Predicates over Moving Objects.” IEEE Data Engineering Bulletin, 28(3): 19-26 (2005)

• C.-W. Lin, H. Hu and D. L. Lee. "Adaptive realtime bandwidth allocation for wireless data delivery." ACM/Kluwer Journal of Wireless Networks (WINET), Volume 10, Issue 2 (March 2004), pp: 103 - 120.

• D. L. Lee, M. Zhu and H. Hu. "When location-based services meet databases." Mobile Information System, Volume 1, Number 2, 2005.

Book Chapters

• H. Hu, J. Zhou, J. Xu and K. Y. Ng. “Positioning and Privacy in Location-based Services.” Handheld Computing for Mobile Commerce: Applications, Concepts and Technologies. Wen-Chen Hu and Yanjun Zuo,, Eds., IGI Global, 2010.
• J. Xu, H. Hu, X. Tang, and B. Zheng. "Mobile Cache Management." Wireless Information Highways, D. Katsaros, A. Nanopoulos, and Y. Manolopoulos, Eds., Idea Group Publishing, 2005.
• H. Hu, J. Xu, and X. Tang. “Energy Efficient Sensor Data Management.” Sencor Network and Configuration: Fundamentals, Techniques, Platforms, and Experiments. N. P. Mahalik et al, the Springer-Verlag Publishing, Germany, 2006.

Conference Papers

• H. Hu,  J. Xu,  C. Ren, B. Choi. “Processing Private Queries over Untrusted Data Cloud through Privacy Homomorphism.” Proc. of the 27th IEEE International Conference on Data Engineering (ICDE '11), accepted and to appear.
• Y. Li, J. Xu, B. Choi, and H. Hu. "StableBuffer: Optimizing Write Performance for DBMS Applications on Flash Devices." Proc. the 19th ACM International Conference on Information and Knowledge Management (CIKM '10), Toronto, Canada, October 2010.
• S. Gao, Y. Li, J. Xu, B. Choi, H. Hu: "DigestJoin: Expediting Joins on Solid-State Drives." DASFAA 2010: 428-431.

• H. Hu and J. Xu. "Non-Exposure Location Anonymity." Proc. the 25th Int. Conf. on Data Engineering (ICDE '09), Shanghai, China, pp. 1120-1131.

• Y. Li, S. T. On, J. Xu, B. Choi, and H. Hu. "DigestJoin: Exploiting Fast Random Reads for Flash-based Joins." Proc. the 10th International Conference on Mobile Data Management (MDM '09), Taipei, Taiwan, May 2009.

• S. T. On, H. Hu, Y. Li, and J. Xu. "Lazy-Update B+-Tree for Flash Devices." Proc. the 10th International Conference on Mobile Data Management (MDM '09), Taipei, Taiwan, May 2009.

• J. Du, J. Xu, X. Tang, and H. Hu. "iPDA: Supporting Privacy-Preserving Location-Based Mobile Services." Proc. the 8th Int. Conf. on Mobile Data Management (MDM '07), Mannheim, Germany, May 2007. (Demo)

• Chen, C. Lai, X. Meng, J. Xu, and H. Hu. "Clustering Moving Objects in Spatial Networks." Proc. the 12th Int. Conf. on Database Systems for Advanced Applications (DASFAA '07), Bangkok, Thailand, April 2007.

• H. Hu and D. L. Lee. “Distance Indexing on Road Networks” Proc. of the 32th International Conference on Very Large Data Bases, Seoul, Korea, 2006, pp. 894-905.

• H. Hu, D. L. Lee and J. Xu. “Fast Nearest Neighbor Search on Road Networks” Proc. of the 10th International Conference on Extending Database Technology, Munich, Germany, 2006, pp. 186-203.

• H. Hu, J. Xu and D. L. Lee. “A Generic Framework for Monitoring Continuous Spatial Queries over Moving Objects” Proc. of the 24th ACM SIGMOD International Conference on Management of Data, Baltimore, Maryland, 2005, pp. 479-490.

• H. Hu, J. Xu, W. S. Wong, B. Zheng and D. L. Lee. "Proactive Caching for Spatial Queries in Mobile Environments." Proc. of the 21th IEEE International Conference on Data Engineering (ICDE '05), Tokyo, Japan, pp. 403-414.

• H. Hu and D. L. Lee. "GAMMA: A Framework for Moving Object Simulation." Proc. of 9th International Symposium on Spatial and Temporal Databases (SSTD’05), Angra dos Reis, Brazil, pp. 37-54.

• H. Hu and D. L. Lee. "Semantic Location Modeling for Location Navigation in Mobile Environment." Proc. of the 5th Int. Conf. on Mobile Data Management (MDM '04), Berkeley, California, USA, 2004, pp. 52-61.

• H. Hu, M. Zhu and D. L. Lee. "Towards Real-time Parallel Processing of Spatial Queries." Proc. of the Int. Conf. on Parallel Processing (ICPP '03), Kaohsiung, Taiwan, 2003, pp. 565-572.

• H. Hu, J. Xu and D. L. Lee. "Adaptive Power-Aware Prefetching Schemes for Mobile Environments." Proc. of the 4th Int. Conf. on Mobile Data Management (MDM '03), Melbourne, Australia, Jan. 2003, Springer-Verlag LNCS, vol. 2574, pp. 374-380.

• Conference Organization:
• Program Co-Chair: 1st International Workshop on Data Management for Emerging Network Infrastructures (DaMEN), in conjunction with DASFAA' 2011
• Panel Co-Chair: 16th Database Systems for Advanced Applications (DASFAA'11)
  
• Program Committee Member:
• 7th International Conference on Web-Age Information Management (WAIM ’06)
• 12th Database Systems for Advanced Applications (DASFAA'07)
• 2nd International Conference on Scalable Information Systems (INFOSCALE'07)
• 13th Database Systems for Advanced Applications (DASFAA'08)
• International Conference on Wavelet Analysis and Pattern Recognition (ICWAPR’08)
• 2008 International Conference on Communications in Computing (CIC’08)
• 15th Database Systems for Advanced Applications (DASFAA'10)
• 16th Database Systems for Advanced Applications (DASFAA'11)

• Private Distance-Based Query on Private Data without Trusted Middleware (PI: HKBU FRG2/09-10/047, 2010-2011, HK$ 114,500)

• Privacy-Guaranteed Nearest Neighbor Query (PI: HKBU FRG/08-09/II-48, 2009-2011, HK$ 150,000)

• Semantic Location Modeling, Distance Browsing and Query Processing for Mobile Indoor Applications (Co-I: RGC/CERG HKUST6158/06E, 2006-2008, HK$ 688,000)

• Best PhD Paper Award of the 6th ACM Postgraduate Research Day

• Team Leader of the Fourth Runner-up Winner of Microsoft Imagine Cup 2004, Hong Kong
  Project name: i-surroud: A Location-Aware Messenger Service

• Team Leader of the First Runner-up Winner of IBM Websphere National University Student Competition, 2000

• IBM Excellent University Student Award, 2000 (only 80 students nationwide were awarded)

• Exceptional Student Scholarship (for top 1% students), SJTU, 1998 – 2001, 4 years in a row