My current research focuses on data management in the cloud. I have worked on and remain interested in database-related topics such as data integration, database usability, information extraction, and mobile computing (see research page for details.)
I am a researcher at NEC Laboratories America, involved with the Data Management Department in Cupertino, California (see recent SIGMOD Record article on our research.) I received my Ph.D. in Spring 2011 from Computer Science and Engineering from University of Michigan, Ann Arbor. While at Michigan, I was affiliated with the Database Research Group and working with Prof. H.V. Jagadish. Previously, after a brief detour at Tsinghua University, I went to HKUST for my BEng (first class honors) in Computer Engineering with a minor in Mathematics and MPhil in Computer Science.
I am a professional member of ACM, ACM SIGMOD, and IEEE.
Publications
- Bin Liu, Junichi Tatemura, Hakan Hacigumus. Towards Principled Design Support for Scalable OLTP Workloads. EDBT (Invited), Berlin, Germany, 2012.
- Chieh-Feng Chiang, Laura Chiticariu, Vivian Chu, Sajib Dasgupta,Thilo Goetz, Howard Ho, Rajasekar Krishnamurthy, Alexander Lang, Yunyao Li, Bin Liu, Sriram Raghavan, Frederick Reiss, Shivakumar Vaithyanathan, Huaiyu Zhu. The SystemT IDE: An Integrated Development Environment for Information Extraction Rules. ACM SIGMOD (Demo), Athens, Greece, 2011.
- Bin Liu, Laura Chiticariu, Vivian Chu, H. V. Jagadish, and Frederick R. Reiss. Automatic Rule Refinement for Information Extraction. VLDB, Singapore, 2010. (Patent filed based on work in this paper)
- Bin Liu, Laura Chiticariu, Vivian Chu, H. V. Jagadish, and Frederick R. Reiss. Refining Information Extraction Rules Using Data Provenance. IEEE Data Engineering Bulletin, 2010.
- Bin Liu, H. V. Jagadish. Using Trees to Depict a Forest. VLDB, Lyon, France, 2009.
- Bin Liu, H. V. Jagadish. DataLens: Making a Good First Impression. ACM SIGMOD (Demo), Providence, RI, 2009.
- Bin Liu, H. V. Jagadish. A Spreadsheet Algebra for a Direct Data Manipulation Query Interface. Full research paper in IEEE ICDE, Shanghai, China, 2009.
- Shurug Al-Khalifa, Bin Liu, and H. V. Jagadish. Evaluating Universal Quantification in XML. IEEE Transactions on Knowledge and Data Engineering (TKDE), Nov. 2007.
- Magesh Jayapandian, Adriane Chapman, V. Glenn Tarcea, Cong Yu, Aaron Elkiss, Angela Ianni, Bin Liu, Arnab Nandi, Carlos Santos, Philip Andrews, Brian Athey, David States and H. V. Jagadish. Michigan Molecular Interactions (MiMI): Putting the Jigsaw Puzzle Together. Nucleic Acids Research 35 (NAR, Database Issue), D566-71, Nov, 2007.
- Bin Liu, Wang-Chien Lee, Dik Lun Lee. Supporting Complex Multi-Dimensional Queries in P2P Systems. IEEE International Conference on Distributed Computing (ICDCS), 2005.
- Bin Liu, Wang-Chien Lee, Dik Lun Lee. Distributed caching of multi-dimensional data in mobile environments. ACM Mobile Data Management (MDM), short paper, 2005.
- Yufei Tao, Christos Faloutsos, Dimitris. Papadias, Bin Liu. Prediction and Indexing of Moving Objects with Unknown Motion Patterns. ACM SIGMOD, 2004.
- Jimeng Sun, Dimitris Papadias, Yufei Tao, Bin Liu. Querying about the Past, the Present, and the Future in Spatio-Temporal Databases. IEEE ICDE, 2004.