Ju Fan
  Ph.D. Candidate    
 
 
   Database Research Group
   Room 10-204, East Main Building
   Department of Computer Science and Technology
   Tsinghua University, Beijing 100084, China
   Phone: (+86) 10-62789150
   

Hello, I am Ju Fan. Welcome to my homepage. I am a Ph.D. candidate at Database Research Group of Tsinghua University (Beijing, China). My supervisor is Prof. Lizhu Zhou.


Education           Research Interests           Publications           Research Activities            Teaching Experiences           CV

Education 
  • Ph.D Candidate: Department of Computer Science and Technology, Tsinghua University, Sep 2007 - Now.
  • Visiting Scholar: Database Group, State University of New York, Binghamton University (SUNY Binghamton), supervised by Prof. Weiyi Meng, Sep 2010 - Mar 2011.
  • Bachelor: Department of Computer Science and Technology, Beijing University of Technology, Sep 2003 - July 2007.
Research Interests 
  • Query Suggestion for Unstructured and Structured Data
  • Web-Scale Data Management
  • Spatio-Textual Search and Recommendation
Publications 
  1. Ju Fan, Guoliang Li, Lizhu Zhou, Shanshan Chen, Jun Hu. SEAL: Spatio-Textual Similarity Search. VLDB 2012 (to appear).
  2. Ju Fan, Guoliang Li, and Lizhu Zhou. Interactive SQL Query Suggestion: Making Databases User-Friendly. ICDE 2011: 351-362. [paper] [slides]
  3. Ju Fan, Guoliang Li, and Lizhu Zhou. An Effective Approach for Searching Closest Sentence Translations from The Web. DASFAA 2011: 47-57. [paper] [slides]
  4. Guoliang Li, Ju Fan, Hao Wu, Jiannan Wang, and Jianhua Feng. DBease: Making Databases User-Friendly and Easily Accessible. CIDR 2011: 45-56. [paper] [slides]
  5. Ju Fan and Lizhu Zhou. Keyword-Based Deep Web Database Selection. Chinese Journal of Computers. (to appear)
  6. Juan Liu, Ju Fan, and Lizhu Zhou. Measuring Similarity of Chinese Web Databases Based on Category Hierarchy. APWEB 2011:225-236.
  7. Ju Fan, Hao Wu, Guoliang Li, and Lizhu Zhou. Suggesting Topic-Based Query Terms as You Type. APWEB 2010: 61-67.            [paper] [slides]
  8. Qingyan Yang, Ju Fan, Jianyong Wang, and Lizhu Zhou. Personalizing Web Page Recommendation via Collaborative Filtering and Topic-Aware Markov Model. ICDM 2010. [paper] [slides]
  9. Yukui Liu, Lizhu Zhou, and Ju Fan. A Survey to Chinese Deep Web Databases (in Chinese). NDBC 2010 (Best Paper Award).
  10. Ling Lin, Yukai He, Hang Guo, Ju Fan, Lizhu Zhou, Qi Guo, and Gang Li. SESQ: A Model-Driven Method for Building Object Level Vertical Search Engines. ER 2008, pp: 516-517.
Research Activities 
  • 26 Sep - 1 Oct 2011, Attending EII PhD School in Data Management and Information Retrieval, ANU's Kioloa Coastal Campus, Australia, Convenor: Prof. Xiaofang Zhou.
  • 2 Sep 2011, Attending Baidu Technology Innovation Conference, Beijing, China.
  • 22-25 Apr 2011, Attending DASFAA 2011 and presenting our paper, Hong Kong.
  • 11-16 Apr 2011, Attending ICDE 2011 and presenting our paper, Hannover, Germany.
  • 9-12 Jan 2011, Attending CIDR 2011 and presenting our paper, Asilomar, California, USA.
Teaching Experiences 
  • Spring 2008, Teaching Assistant of Undergraduate Student Class "Database Systems and Applications", Department of Computer Science and Technology, Tsinghua University.
  • Fall 2008, Teaching Assistant of Graduate Student Class "Distributed Database Systems", Department of Computer Science and Technology, Tsinghua University.
  • Fall 2009, Teaching Assistant of Graduate Student Class "Distributed Database Systems", Department of Computer Science and Technology, Tsinghua University.
  • Fall 2011, Teaching Assistant of Graduate Student Class "Database Technology", Department of Computer Science and Technology, Tsinghua University.