Personal Profile

Dr. Zheng Bolong currently works as an associate professor in the School of Computer Science and Technology, Huazhong University of Science and Technology. He received PhD degree in Computer Science from The University of Queensland under the supervision of Dr Kai Zheng and Prof Xiaofang Zhou in 2017. He obtained his Bachelor and Master degrees from Huazhong University of Sci & Tech, in 2011 and 2013, respectively.

Academic Degrees

2013.10-2017.3

The University of Queensland > Computer Software and Theory > Doctoral Degree in Engineering > Postgraduate (Doctoral)

2011.9-2013.7

Huazhong University of Science and Technology > Computer Applications Technology > 3 > Postgraduate (Master's Degree)

2007.9-2011.7

Huazhong University of Science and Technology > Software Engineering > Bachelor's Degree > Undergraduate (Bachelor’s degree)

Professional Experience

2018.4-Now

Huazhong University of Science and Technology > School of Computer Science and Technology > Associate Professor

2017.9-2018.4

Aalborg University, Denmark > Department of Computer Science > Post doctoral researcher

2017.1-2017.8

University of Queensland, Australia > School of Information Technology and Electrical Engineering > Post doctoral researcher

Courses Taught

Awards and Honors

[1] 2021 National Grand Prize of the 17th Challenge Cup of The Open Competition Mechanism to Select the Best Candidates

[2] 2021 ACM Wuhan New Star Award

[3] 2021 “Huawei Award” for teachers

[4] 2021 The second prize of “FiberHome Cup” WOIDC

[5] 2021 The Best Paper and the Best Popular Paper Award of China Spatial Data Intelligence Academic Conference

[6] 2021 Advanced Individual in New Student Enrollment

[7] 2021 Excellent Head Teacher of University

[8] 2020 Distinguished Expert of Hubei Province

[9] 2020 One of the Best Papers of CCF Class A Conference VLDB 2020 (One of the Best Papers)

[10] 2020 ACM SIGSPARTIAL China New Star Award 2020

[11] 2020 ACM SIGSPATIAL 2020 GIS-CUP Global Champion

[12] 2019 One of the Best Papers of CCF Class A Conference VLDB 2019 (One of the Best Papers)

[13] 2019 ACM SIGSPATIAL 2019 GIS-CUP Honorable Mention

Selected Projects Funded

Selected Publications

[1] minIL: A Simple and Small Index for String Similarity Search with Edit Distance. Zhong Yang, Bolong Zheng*, Guohui Li, Xianzhi Wang, Xiaofang Zhou. IEEE International Conference on Data Engineering (ICDE) 2022, Kuala Lumpur, to appear..

[2] PM-LSH: A Fast and Accurate In-Memory Framework for High-Dimensional Approximate NN and Closest Pair Search. Bolong Zheng, Xi Zhao, Lianggui Weng, Nguyen Quoc Viet Hung, Hang Liu, Christian S. Jensen. The VLDB Journal (VLDBJ) 2022, to appear..

[3] SOUP: Spatial-Temporal Demand Forecasting and Competitive Supply. Bolong Zheng, Qi Hu, Lingfeng Ming, Jilin Hu, Lu Chen, Kai Zheng, Christian S. Jensen. IEEE Transactions on Knowledge and Data Engineering (TKDE) 2022, to appear..

[4] Supply-Demand Aware Deep Reinforcement Learning for Dynamic Fleet Management. Bolong Zheng, Lingfeng Ming, Qi Hu, Zhipeng Lv, Guanfeng Liu, Xiaofang Zhou. ACM Transactions on Intelligent Systems and Technology (TIST) 2022, to appear..

[5] Wavefront based Multiple Rumor Sources Identification by Multi-Task Learning. Ming Dong, Bolong Zheng*, Guohui Li, Chenliang Li, Kai Zheng, Xiaofang Zhou. IEEE Transactions on Emerging Topics in Computational Intelligence (TETCI) 2022, to appear..

[6] Deep Reinforcement Learning based Ensemble Model for Rumor Tracking. Guohui Li, Ming Dong, Lingfeng Ming, Changyin Luo, Han Yu, Xiaofei Hu, Bolong Zheng*. Information Systems (IS) 2022, 103: 101772..

[7] SpeakNav: Voice-based Route Description Language Understanding for Template Driven Path Search. Bolong Zheng, Lei Bi, Juan Cao, Hua Chai, Jun Fang, Lu Chen, Yunjun Gao, Xiaofang Zhou, Christian S. Jensen. The Proceedings of the VLDB Endowment (PVLDB) 2021, Copenhagen, 14(12): 3056-3068..

[8] REPOSE: Distributed Top-k Trajectory Similarity Search with Local Reference Point Tries. Bolong Zheng, Lianggui Weng, Xi Zhao, Kai Zeng, Xiaofang Zhou, Christian S. Jensen. IEEE International Conference on Data Engineering (ICDE) 2021, Crete, 708-719..

[9] SpeakNav: A Voice-based Navigation System via Route Description Language Understanding. Lei Bi, Juan Cao, Guohui Li, Nguyen Quoc Viet Hung, Christian S. Jensen, Bolong Zheng*. IEEE International Conference on Data Engineering (ICDE) 2021, Crete, 2669-2672. (Demo).

[10] SOUP: A Fleet Management System for Passenger Demand Prediction and Competitive Taxi Supply. Qi Hu, Lingfeng Ming, Ruijie Xi, Lu Chen, Christian S. Jensen, Bolong Zheng*. IEEE International Conference on Data Engineering (ICDE) 2021, Crete, 2657-2660. (Demo).

[11] HASTE: A Distributed System for Hybrid and Adaptive Processing on Streaming Spatial-Textual Data. Zhong Yang, Bolong Zheng*, Chengdong Tong, Lianggui Weng, Chenliang Li, Guohui Li. ACM International Conference on Information and Knowledge Management (CIKM) 2021, Gold Coast, 2363-2372..

[12] PM-LSH: A Fast and Accurate LSH Framework for High-Dimensional Approximate NN Search. Bolong Zheng, Xi Zhao, Lianggui Weng, Nguyen Quoc Viet Hung, Hang Liu, Christian S. Jensen. The Proceedings of the VLDB Endowment (PVLDB) 2020, Tokyo, 13(5): 643-655. (One of the Best Papers of VLDB 2020).

[13] An Effective Fleet Management Strategy for Collaborative Spatial-Temporal Searching (GIS Cup). Lingfeng Ming, Qi Hu, Ming Dong, Bolong Zheng*. ACM SIGSPATIAL International Conference on Advances in Geographic Information Systems (SIGSPATIAL) 2020, Seattle, 651-654. (Champion of 9th ACM SIGSPATIAL GIS Cup 2020).

[14] Online Trichromatic Pickup and Delivery Scheduling in Spatial Crowdsourcing. Bolong Zheng, Chenze Huang, Christian S. Jensen, Lu Chen, Nguyen Quoc Viet Hung, Guanfeng Liu, Guohui Li, Kai Zheng. IEEE International Conference on Data Engineering (ICDE) 2020, Dallas, 973-984..

[15] Adaptive Top-k Overlap Set Similarity Joins. Zhong Yang, Bolong Zheng*, Guohui Li, Xi Zhao, Xiaofang Zhou, Christian S. Jensen. IEEE International Conference on Data Engineering (ICDE) 2020, Dallas, 1081-1092..

[16] Answering Why-Not Group Spatial Keyword Queries. Bolong Zheng, Kai Zheng, Christian S. Jensen, Nguyen Quoc Viet Hung, Han Su, Guohui Li, Xiaofang Zhou. IEEE Transactions on Knowledge and Data Engineering (TKDE) 2020, 32(1): 26-39. (Extended Abstract) IEEE International Conference on Data Engineering (ICDE) 2019, Macau, 2155-2156..

[17] Time-Aspect-Sentiment Recommendation Models Based on Novel Similarity Measure Methods. Guohui Li, Qi Chen, Bolong Zheng*, Nguyen Quoc Viet Hung, Pan Zhou, Guanfeng Liu. ACM Transactions on Web (TWEB) 2020, 14(2): 5:1–5:26..

[18] Searching Activity Trajectories by Exemplar. Zhong Yang, Bolong Zheng*, Guohui Li, Nguyen Quoc Viet Hung, Guanfeng Liu, Kai Zheng. ACM/IMS Transactions on Data Science (TDS) 2020, 1(3): 19:1–19:18..

[19] Group based Recurrent Neural Networks for POI Recommendation. Guohui Li, Qi Chen, Bolong Zheng*, Hongzhi Yin, Nguyen Quoc Viet Hung, Xiaofang Zhou. ACM/IMS Transactions on Data Science (TDS) 2020, 1(1): 3:1–3:18..

[20] Misinformation-oriented Expert Finding in Social Networks. Guohui Li, Ming Dong, Fuming Yang, Jun Zeng, Jiansen Yuan, Congyuan Jin, Nguyen Quoc Viet Hung, Phan Thanh Cong, Bolong Zheng*. World Wide Web: Internet and Web Information Systems (WWWJ) 2020, 23(2): 693-714..

[21] An Effective Partitioning Approach for Competitive Spatial-Temporal Searching (GIS Cup). Qi Hu, Lingfeng Ming, Chengdong Tong, Bolong Zheng*. ACM SIGSPATIAL International Conference on Advances in Geographic Information Systems (SIGSPATIAL) 2019, Chicago, 620-623. (Honorable Mention of 8th ACM SIGSPATIAL GIS Cup 2019).

[22] Efficient and Incremental Clustering Algorithms on Star-Schema Heterogeneous Graphs. Lu Chen, Yunjun Gao, Yuanliang Zhang, Christian S. Jensen, Bolong Zheng. IEEE International Conference on Data Engineering (ICDE) 2019, Macau, 256-267. (One of the Best Papers of ICDE 2019).

[23] Multiple Rumor Source Detection with Graph Convolutional Networks. Ming Dong, Bolong Zheng*, Nguyen Quoc Viet Hung, Han Su, Guohui Li. ACM International Conference on Information and Knowledge Management (CIKM) 2019, Beijing, 569-578..

[24] Searching Activity Trajectory with Keywords. Bolong Zheng, Kai Zheng, Peter Scheuermann, Xiaofang Zhou, Nguyen Quoc Viet Hung, Chenliang Li. World Wide Web: Internet and Web Information Systems (WWWJ) 2019, 22(3): 967-1000..

[25] SharkDB: An In-memory Column-oriented Storage for Trajectory Analysis. Bolong Zheng, Haozhou Wang, Kai Zheng, Han Su, Kuien Liu, Shuo Shang. World Wide Web: Internet and Web Information Systems (WWWJ) 2018, 21(2): 455-485..

[26] Modeling Travel Behavior Similarity with Trajectory Embedding. Wenyan Yang, Yan Zhao, Bolong Zheng*, Guanfeng Liu, Kai Zheng. The International Conference on Database Systems for Advanced Applications (DASFAA) 2018, Gold Coast, 630-646..

[27] Efficient Clue-based Route Search on Road Networks. Bolong Zheng, Han Su, Wen Hua, Kai Zheng, Xiaofang Zhou, Guohui Li. IEEE Transactions on Knowledge and Data Engineering (TKDE) 2017, 29(9): 1846-1859. (Extended Abstract) IEEE International Conference on Data Engineering (ICDE) 2018, Paris, 1783-1784..

[28] Popularity-aware Spatial Keyword Search on Activity Trajectories. Kai Zheng, Bolong Zheng*, Jiajie Xu, Guanfeng Liu, An Liu, Zhixu Li. World Wide Web: Internet and Web Information Systems (WWWJ) 2017, 20(4): 749-773..

[29] GPS-Simulated Trajectory Detection. Han Su, Wei Chen, Rong Liu, Min Nie, Bolong Zheng*, Zehao Huang, Defu Lian. The International Conference on Database Systems for Advanced Applications (DASFAA) 2017, Soochow, 581-593..

[30] Keyword-Aware Continuous kNN Query on Road Networks. Bolong Zheng, Kai Zheng, Xiaokui Xiao, Han Su, Hongzhi Yin, Xiaofang Zhou, Guohui Li. IEEE International Conference on Data Engineering (ICDE) 2016, Helsinki, 871-882..

[31] Approximate Keyword Search in Semantic Trajectory Database. Bolong Zheng, Nicholas Jing Yuan, Kai Zheng, Xing Xie, Shazia Sadiq, Xiaofang Zhou. IEEE International Conference on Data Engineering (ICDE) 2015, Seoul, 975-986..

Professional Affiliations

2021.12-Now

Executive member of CCF Database Technical Committee

2021.12-Now

Member of CAAI Intelligent Service Technical Committee

2021.5-Now

Executive member of ACM China SIGSPATIAL Branch

2021.5-Now

Member of CCF YOCSEF Wuhan AC

Research Group

Enrollment Information

Long term enrollment of master's degree candidates and doctorate candidates (candidates can be recommended to the world famous universities such as Australia, the United States, Singapore, Denmark, etc. for joint supervision)

Senior undergraduates are welcome to participate in scientific research (they can be recommended to Australia, the United States, Singapore, Denmark and other world famous universities to study for doctoral degrees)

Personal Homepage

Web: http://faculty.hust.edu.cn/BOLONGZHENG/en/index/2143663/list/index.htm