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, Xiaoyu Han, Hufsa Khan, Weilong Ren*, Yaoshu Wang, Min Xie, and Zihuan Xu. Conflict Resolution for Improving ML Accuracy. In IEEE International Conference on Data Engineering (ICDE), 2026, to appear.
Yang Liu, Mengyi Yan, Jiao Xue, Weilong Ren, Yutong Ye, Haoyi Zhou, Jianxin Li, and Zhumin Chen. SPARQ: A Cost-Efficient Framework for Offline Table Question Answering via Adaptive Routing. In IEEE International Conference on Data Engineering (ICDE), 2026, to appear.
Wenfei Fan, Xiaoyu Han, Weilong Ren*, and Zihuan Xu. Data Enhancement for Binary Classification of Relational Data. In ACM SIGMOD/PODS International Conference on Management of Data (SIGMOD), pages 1-28, Berlin, Germany, June 22-27, 2025.
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.

Research Grants

National Natural Science Foundation of China (NSFC), Youth Science Fund, Weilong Ren (PI), "Data Cleaning and Enhancement for Relational Data Classification Models", Jan. 2026 -- Dec. 2028, RMB 300,000.
Shenzhen Natural Science Foundation, Basic Research Program, Weilong Ren (PI), "Query Optimization over Incomplete Relational Data", Oct. 2025 -- Oct. 2028, RMB 300,000.
National Natural Science Foundation of China (NSFC), General Program, Jiahui Jin (PI), Weilong Ren (Co-PI), and Jinghui Zhang, "Construction and Computation Methods for Urban Graph Extraction Models Based on Spatio-Temporal Aware Prompts", Jan. 2026 -- Dec. 2029, RMB 500,000.

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) [2025,2026];
  • 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)