Byron Koon Kau Choi
Associate Professor
Department of Computer Science
Hong Kong Baptist University (HKBU)
China
Biography
Dr. Choi obtained his Ph.D and MSE degrees in Computer and Information Science from the University of Pennsylvania (UPenn) in 2006 and 2002, respectively. He received his BEng degree in Computer Engineering from the Hong Kong University of Science and Technology (HKUST). Dr. Choi was an Assistant Professor with Nanyang Technological University (NTU), 2005-2008. He was a research associate at the University of Edinburgh in 2005. He visited HKUST theoretical computer science group in 2003. His publications appear in IEEE TKDE, VLDBJ, ACM SIGMOD, VLDB, IEEE ICDE, WWW before. Dr. Choi is the director of a Croucher Foundation Advanced Study Institute (ASI) titled "Frontiers in Big Data Graph Research" 2015. Dr. Choi is the recipient of the HKBU President's Award for Outstanding Young Researcher 2016.
Research Interest
Graph-structured and XML databases, Database security, Incremental maintenance algorithms
Publications
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S. S. Bhowmick, B. Choi, C. E. Dyreson. Data-driven Visual Graph Query Interface Construction and Maintenance: Challenges and Opportunities. In Proceedings of Very Large Data Base Endowment (PVLDB '16) 9(12): 984-992, 2016.
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Y. Peng, B. Choi, B. He, S. Zhou, R. Xu, X. Yu. VColor: A practical vertex-cut based approach for coloring large graphs. In Proceedings of the 32nd IEEE International Conference on Data Engineering (ICDE '16), pages 97-108, 2016.
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P. Yi, B. Choi, S. S. Bhowmick and J. Xu. "AutoG: A Visual Query Autocompletion Framework for Graph Databases." The VLDB Journal (VLDBJ) (to appear), 2017.
