Detailed Information

Education

09/2008 - 03/2012: Ph.D. candidate, Department of Computer Science and Engineering, Hong Kong University of Science and Technology.

09/2004 - 06/2008: B.Sc. in Mathematics, Peking University. GPA: rank 1st in the Department of Informatics, School of Mathematics.

Professional Experience

07/2019 - present: Professor, School of Information, Renmin University of China.

09/2014 - 06/2019: Associate Professor, School of Information, Renmin University of China.

09/2012 - 08/2014: Postdoc, MADALGO (Center for Massive Data Algorithmics), Department of Computer Science, Aarhus University. Supervisor: Prof. Lars Arge.  

Research Interests

Algorithms for massive data; Graph Algorithms; Streaming Algorithms; Database theory.

Publications

[1] Zhewei Wei, Ke Yi: The Space Complexity of 2-Dimensional Approximate Range Counting. SODA 2013: 252-264

[2] Pankaj K. Agarwal, Graham Cormode, Zengfeng Huang, Jeff M. Phillips, Zhewei Wei*, Ke Yi: Mergeable summaries. ACM Trans. Database Syst. 38(4): 26:1-26:28 (2013)

[3] Ke Yi, Lu Wang, Zhewei Wei*: Indexing for summary queries: Theory and practice. ACM Trans. Database Syst. 39(1): 2:1-2:39 (2014)

[4] Zhewei Wei, Ge Luo, Ke Yi, Xiaoyong Du, Ji-Rong Wen: Persistent Data Sketching. SIGMOD Conference 2015: 795-810

[5] Yu Liu, Jiaheng Lu, Hua Yang, Xiaokui Xiao, Zhewei Wei*: Towards Maximum Independent Sets on Massive Graphs. PVLDB 8(13): 2122-2133 (2015)

[6] Zhewei Wei, Xuancheng Liu, Feifei Li, Shuo Shang, Xiaoyong Du, Ji-Rong Wen: Matrix Sketching Over Sliding Windows. SIGMOD Conference 2016: 1465-1480

[7] Shuo Shang, Lisi Chen, Zhewei Wei, Christian S. Jensen, Ji-Rong Wen, Panos Kalnis: Collective Travel Planning in Spatial Networks. IEEE Trans. Knowl. Data Eng. 28(5): 1132-1146 (2016)

[8] Ju Fan, Zhewei Wei, Dongxiang Zhang, Jingru Yang and Xiaoyong Du. Distribution-Aware Crowdsourced Entity Collection. IEEE Transactions on Knowledge and Data Engineering (TKDE), 2016.

[9] Sibo Wang, Renchi Yang, Xiaokui Xiao, Zhewei Wei*, Yin Yang: FORA: Simple and Effective Approximate Single-Source Personalized PageRank. KDD 2017: 505-514

[10] Haida Zhang, Zengfeng Huang, Zhewei Wei, Wenjie Zhang, Xuemin Lin: Tracking Matrix Approximation over Distributed Sliding Windows. ICDE 2017: 833-844

[11] Shuo Shang, Lisi Chen, Zhewei Wei, Christian S. Jensen, Ji-Rong Wen, Panos Kalnis: Collective Travel Planning in Spatial Networks. ICDE 2017: 59-60

[12] Yu Liu, Bolong Zheng, Xiaodong He, Zhewei Wei*, Xiaokui Xiao, Kai Zheng, Jiaheng Lu: ProbeSim: Scalable Single-Source and Top-k SimRank Computations on Dynamic Graphs. PVLDB 11(1): 14-26 (2017)

[13] Shuo Shang, Lisi Chen, Zhewei Wei, Christian S. Jensen, Kai Zheng, Panos Kalnis: Trajectory Similarity Join in Spatial Networks. PVLDB 10(11): 1178-1189 (2017)

[14] Zhewei Wei, Xiaodong He, Xiaokui Xiao, Sibo Wang, Shuo Shang, Ji-Rong Wen: TopPPR: Top-k Personalized PageRank Queries with Precision Guarantees on Large Graphs. SIGMOD Conference 2018: 441-45

[15] Shuo Shang, Lisi Chen, Zhewei Wei, Christian S. Jensen, Kai Zheng, Panos Kalnis: Parallel trajectory similarity joins in spatial networks. VLDB J. 27(3): 395-420 (2018)

[16] Chunbin Lin, Jiaheng Lu, Zhewei Wei, Jianguo Wang, Xiaokui Xiao: Optimal algorithms for selecting top-k combinations of attributes: theory and applications. VLDB J. 27(1): 27-52 (2018)

[17] Jingru Yang, Ju Fan, Zhewei Wei, Guoliang Li, Tongyu Liu, Xiaoyong Du: Cost-Effective Data Annotation using Game-Based Crowdsourcing. PVLDB 12(1): 57-70 (2018)

[18] Shuo Shang, Lisi Chen, Kai Zheng, Christian S. Jensen, Zhewei Wei, Panos Kalnis: Parallel Trajectory-to-Location Join. IEEE Trans. Knowl. Data Eng. 31(6): 1194-1207 (2019)

[19] Zhewei Wei, Xiaodong He, Sibo Wang, Yu Liu, Xiaoyong Du, Ji-Rong Wen. PRSim: Sublinear Time SimRank Computation on Large Power-Law Graphs. SIGMOD Conference 2019

[20] Renchi Yang, Xiaokui Xiao, Zhewei Wei, Sourav S. Bhowmick, Jun Zhao, Rong-Hua Li: Efficient Estimation of Heat Kernel PageRank for Local Clustering. SIGMOD Conference 2019

[21] Yuan Yin and Zhewei Wei*: Scalable Graph Embeddings via Sparse Transpose Proximities. SIGKDD 2019, ORAL.

[22] Sibo Wang, Renchi Yang, Runhui Wang, Xiaokui Xiao, Zhewei Wei*, Wenqin Lin, Yin Yang and Nan Tang. Efficient Algorithms for Approximate Single-Source Personalized PageRank Queries. To appear in TODS2020.

Services

Proceeding Chair for PODS2020.

PC for SIGMETRICS2020, NDBC2017, ICBK2020.

External Reviewer for SODA, ISAAC, VLDB, ICDE, CIKM, SIGMOD , PODS.

Reviewer for TKDE, TALG, TOIS, TODS, VLDBJ, TKDD, TBD.

Member of ACM Special Interest Group on Management of Data (SIGMOD) and Committee Member of China Computer Federation (CCF) Database Group.