CV

Employment

• Hong Kong Polytechnic University (2024 - Present)
  • Assistant Professor (Research) in the Department of Computing

Education

• PhD in Computer Science, Hong Kong University of Science and Technology (2019-2024)
  • Supervisor: Prof. Lei Chen
• Bachelor of Engineering (Honours) , University of Queensland (2014-2019)
  • Thesis Supervisor: Prof. Hongzhi Yin
• Bachelor of Science, University of Queensland (2014-2019)

Additional Academic Experience

• Overseas Visiting Researcher, University of Waterloo (Nov 2022 - Mar 2023)
  • Host Supervisor: Prof. Tamer Özsu
• Research Assistant, Chinese University of Hong Kong (Nov 2018 - Feb 2019)
  • Host Supervisor: Prof. Jeffrey Xu Yu
• Summer Researcher, University of New South Wales (Dec 2017 - Feb 2018)
  • Host Supervisor: Prof. Wenjie Zhang and Prof. Ying Zhang

Teaching Experience

Hong Kong Polytechnic University

• COMP3235: Software Project Management (S2 25/26, S2 26/27)
• COMP2411: Database Systems (S1 24/25)

Teaching Assistant Experience

Hong Kong University of Science and Technology

• COMP1944: Artificial Intelligence Ethics (2024)
• COMP1029V: Excel VBA Programming Bridging Course (2021, 2023)
• COMP4331: Data Mining (2020)

University of Queensland

• INFS1200/7900: Introduction to Information Systems (2017 - 2019)

Professional Services

Publication and Proceedings Chair: ICDE (‘25), LSGDA (‘24)

Volunteers Chair: WWW (‘25)

Workshop Chair: ICDM (‘26)

Strategic Program Chair: ADC (‘25)

Program Committee: ICDE (‘25, ‘26, ‘27) (ICDE’25 Best PC Award), VLDB (‘26, ‘27), DASFAA (‘23 - ‘26), ICPADS (‘25), ADMA (‘23 - ‘26), LSGDA (‘25), APWeb-WAIM (‘24), ADC (‘24 - ‘26)

Journal Reviewer: TODS, TKDE, TMC

Panelist

ADMA (‘25): Fundamental Research vs Application Research — New Challenges and Opportunities

Tutorials

VLDB (‘26): Graph Foundation Models: State of the Art and Future Directions. A Zhou, H Li, L Chen

ADC (‘24): Graph-Based Indexes for Approximate Nearest Neighbour Search. A Zhou

PhD Workshop Invited Talks

ADC (‘22): Beyond Normal Graphs: Finding New Research Topics on Complex Graph Types. A Zhou