Weilong Ren (PhD, KSU, Late 2021)



Research Scientist

ShenZhen Institute of Computing Sciences
Shenzhen, Guangdong, China

Office: Room 0504
Hongshan 6979 Building No. 25, Minbao Road
Shenzhen, Guangdong, China

Email: renweilong@sics.ac.cn
DBLP: Link
Google Scholar: Link

Biography

I obtained my PhD degree at the Department of Computer Science, Kent State University in December, 2021, under the co-supervision of Dr. Xiang Lian and Dr. Kambiz Ghazinour. Starting from February 2022, I am a research scientist at Shenzhen Institute of Computing Sciences.

Research Interests

Incomplete Data Management
Data Cleaning for ML
Query Processing and Optimization
Data Integration
Data Privacy

Publications (* refers to corresponding authors)

Wenfei Fan, Ziyan Han, Weilong Ren*, Ding Wang, Yaoshu Wang, Min Xie, and Mengyi Yan. Splitting Tuples of Mismatched Entities. In ACM SIGMOD/PODS International Conference on Management of Data (SIGMOD), pages 1-29, Santiago, Chile, June 9-15, 2024.
Mengyi Yan, Weilong Ren*, Yaoshu Wang, Jianxin Li*. A Retrieval-Augmented Framework for Tabular Interpretation with Large Language Model. In DASFAA, 2024.
Weilong Ren, Kambiz Ghazinour, and Xiang Lian. kt-Safety: Graph Release via k-Anonymity and t-Closeness. In IEEE Transactions on Knowledge and Data Engineering (TKDE), 35(9): 9102-9113, 2023.
Weilong Ren, Xiang Lian, and Kambiz Ghazinour. Online Topic-Aware Entity Resolution Over Incomplete Data Streams. In ACM SIGMOD/PODS International Conference on Management of Data (SIGMOD), pages 1478-1490, Xian, China, June 20-25, 2021.
Weilong Ren, Xiang Lian, and Kambiz Ghazinour. Effective and Efficient Top-k Query Processing Over Incomplete Data Streams. In Information Science (INS), 544: 343-371, 2021.
Weilong Ren, Xiang Lian, and Kambiz Ghazinour. Skyline Queries Over Incomplete Data Streams. In Very Large Data Bases Journal (VLDBJ), 28(6), pages 961-985, 2019.
Weilong Ren, Xiang Lian, and Kambiz Ghazinour. Efficient Join Processing Over Incomplete Data Streams. In Proceedings of the ACM Conference on Information and Knowledge Management, (CIKM'19), pages 209-218, Beijing, China, Nov. 03-07, 2019.
Weilong Ren, Xiang Lian, and Kambiz Ghazinour. Online Topic-Aware Entity Resolution Over Incomplete Data Streams (Technical Report). In arXiv preprint arXiv:2103.08720, 2021.
Weilong Ren, Xiang Lian, and Kambiz Ghazinour. Skyline Queries Over Incomplete Data Streams (Technical Report). In arXiv preprint arXiv:1909.11224, 2019.
Weilong Ren, Xiang Lian, and Kambiz Ghazinour. Efficient Join Processing Over Incomplete Data Streams (Technical Report). In arXiv preprint arXiv:1908.08654, 2019.

Awards

University Fellowship, Kent State University, US, 2020-2021
CIKM19 / SIGIR Student Travel Grant, 2019
Full Scholarship of Edinburgh Napier University, UK, 2015-2016
Pass with the Distinction of Edinburgh Napier Univerisity, UK, 2016
Outstanding Graduate of Shandong Province, China, 2014
Scholarship of Shandong University of Finance and Economics, China, 2010-2014

Professional Services

  Journal reviewer for:
  • IEEE Transactions on Knowledge and Data Engineering (TKDE) [2020, 2022, 2023, 2024];
  • Transactions on Knowledge Discovery from Data (TKDD) [2024];
  • ACM Transactions on Database Systems (TODS) [2023];
  • Scientific Reports [2024];
  • Open Journal of Databases (OJDB) [2020];
  • PeerJ Computer Science [2021];
  • Journal of Database Management (JDM) [2022, 2023, 2024];
  • Journal of Computational Methods in Sciences and Engineering (JCMSE) [2021];
  • Ceramics International [2022];
  • International Journal of Business Intelligence Research (IJBIR) [2022];
  • Journal of Data and Information Quality (JDIQ) [2022];

  Program committee (PC) member and reviewer for:
  • International Conference on Data Engineering (ICDE) [2023, 2024];
  • ACM SIGKDD Conference on Knowledge Discovery and Data Mining (SIGKDD) [2022];
  • ACM International World Wide Web Conference (WWW) [2025];
  • ACM International Conference on Web Search and Data Mining (WSDM) [2022];
  • European Conference on Information Retrieval (ECIR) [2023, 2024];

  External conference reviewer for:
  • International Conference on Very Large Data Bases (PVLDB) [2019, 2022, 2023, 2024];
  • International Conference on Data Engineering (ICDE) [2018 (Demo Track), 2021, 2022];
  • ACM SIGKDD Conference on Knowledge Discovery and Data Mining (SIGKDD) [2021];
  • International ACM SIGIR Conference on Research and Development in Information Retrieval (SIGIR) [2020, 2021, 2022, 2023];
  • International Conference on Extending Database Technology (EDBT) [2020, 2021];
  • ACM Conference on Information and Knowledge Management (CIKM) [2018, 2020, 2021, 2023];
  • European Conference on Machine Learning and Principles and Practice of Knowledge Discovery in Databases (ECMLPKDD) [2023];
  • SIAM International Conference on Data Mining (SDM) [2022];
  • ACM Conference on Web Search and Data Mining (WSDM) [2021];
  • International Conference on Database Systems for Advanced Applications (DASFAA) [2018, 2019, 2020, 2022, 2023];
  • IEEE International Conference on Big Data (IEEE BigData) [2019, 2020];
  • The Asia Pacific Web (APWeb) and Web-Age Information Management (WAIM) Joint International Conference on Web and Big Data (APWeb-WAIM) [2020, 2023];
  • International Conference on Advanced Data Mining and Applications (ADMA) [2023];

Graduate Assistant during Ph.D. Period

CSI: Procedural and Object-Oriented Programming -- Fall 2020 (Lab Instructor)
AI-Based Human Action Recognization (granted by the funding "Towards a Model of Safety and Care for Trauma Room Design", $2,427,608), Student Worker -- Summer 2020
Big Data Analytics -- Spring 2020 (Teaching Assistant)
CSIA Procedural programming -- Spring 2020 (Lab Instructor), office hour: 10am-12pm Friday
CSI: Procedural and Object-Oriented Programming -- Fall 2019 (Lab Instructor)
Student Worker -- Summer 2019
Research Assistant -- Spring 2019
Research Assistant -- Fall 2018
Research Assistant -- Summer 2018
CS 49901 & CS 44901, Capstone Project & Software Development Project -- Spring 2018 (Lab Instructor)
CSI: Procedural and Object-Oriented Programming -- Fall 2017 (Lab Instructor)