Invited Talks


    •  Topic: Large-Scale Graph Computing: From "Think Like a Vertex" to "Think Like a Task"
        Venue: Argonne’s CS Seminar Series, Argonne National Laboratory, IL.
        Date: May 09, 2023


    •  Topic: Large-Scale Graph Computing: From "Think Like a Vertex" to "Think Like a Task"
        Venue: A Virtual Talk to Peking University, Beijing, China.
        Date: Jun 13, 2022


    •  Topic: Large-Scale Graph Computing: From "Think Like a Vertex" to "Think Like a Task"
        Venue: A Virtual Talk to Fudan University, Shanghai, China.
        Date: Jun 09, 2022


    •  Topic: Large-Scale Graph Computing: From "Think Like a Vertex" to "Think Like a Task"
        Venue: A Virtual Talk to Tencent, Shenzhen, China.
        Date: May 23, 2022


    •  Topic: A Summary of Graph Analytics Tasks
        Venue: Dagstuhl Seminar 2203: Bringing Graph Databases and Network Visualization Together, Schloss Dagstuhl, Germany.
        Date: Jan 17, 2022


    •  Topic: Large-Scale Graph Computing: From "Think Like a Vertex" to "Think Like a Task"
        Venue: Statistics and Data Science Seminar, Department of Mathematics and Statistics, Auburn University, Auburn, AL (Virtual).
        Date: Oct 28, 2021


    •  Topic: Some Insights on Curriculum Design in Data Science and Big Data Related Courses
        Venue: Data Science Education and Workforce Working Group Webinar Series, South Big Data Hub (Virtual).
        Date: Oct 01, 2021


    •  Keynote II: Parallel Mining of Frequent Subtree Patterns
        Venue: The 2nd International Workshop on Large Scale Graph Data Analytics in Conjunction with VLDB 2020 (Virtual).
        Date: Sep 04, 2020


    •  Topic: User-Friendly Distributed Frameworks for Processing Big Data
        Venue: Stevens Institute of Technology, Hoboken, New Jersey.
        Date: Dec 23, 2019


    •  Topic: A Task-Centric Approach to Revolutionize Big Graph Systems Research
        Venue: Dagstuhl Seminar 19491: Big Graph Processing Systems, Schloss Dagstuhl, Germany.
        Date: Dec 2, 2019


    •  Topic: Big Data Systems: Combining Ease of Programming with Performance
        Venue: Oak Ridge National Laboratory, Oak Ridge, TN.
        Date: Aug 20, 2019


    •  Topic: Big Data Systems: Combining Ease of Programming with Performance
        Venue: East China Normal University (ECNU), Shanghai, China.
        Date: May 22, 2019


    •  Topic: Expert Panel
        Venue: The 16th Annual MidSouth Computational Biology and Bioinformatics Society Conference (MCBIOS 2019), Birmingham, AL.
        Date: Mar 30, 2019


    •  Topic: Mining Subgraphs from a Big Graph: Solution and Challenges
        Venue: Dagstuhl Seminar 19051: Data Structures for the Cloud and External Memory Data, Schloss Dagstuhl, Germany.
        Date: Jan 30, 2019


    •  Topic: Python for Data Science
        Venue: BHAM QUANTS, Birmingham, AL.
        Date: Nov 14, 2018


    •  Topic: User-Friendly Distributed Frameworks for Processing Big Data
        Venue: Queen's University Belfast (QUB), Belfast, Northern Ireland.
        Date: Aug 17, 2018


    •  Poster: T-thinker: A Task-Centric Framework to Revolutionize Big Data Systems Research [LINK]
        Video: Link, Acknowledgement
        Venue: Computing Community Consortium (CCC) Early Career Researcher Symposium, Washington, D.C.
        Date: Aug 1, 2018


    •  Topic: User-Friendly Distributed Frameworks for Processing Big Data
        International Forum on Artificial Intelligence and Trustworthy Software
        Venue: East China Normal University (ECNU), Shanghai, China.
        Date: July 13, 2018


    •  Topic: User-Friendly Distributed Frameworks for Processing Big Data [LINK]
        Venue: Auburn University, Auburn, Alabama.
        Date: May 22, 2018


    •  Featured Panel: Future of Convergence: An International Perspective [LINK]
        Venue: Anniversary of the Society for Design and Process Science (SDPS), 2017
        Date: Nov 7, 2017


    •  Poster: Bridging High Performance of HPC Community with Programming Friendliness of Data Science Community [LINK]
        Video: Link, Acknowledgement
        Venue: The Computing Community Consortium (CCC) Symposium on Computing Research 2017, Washington, D.C.
        Date: Oct 23, 2017


    •  Topic: Systems for Big Data Analytics
        Venue: Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT), Cambridge, Massachusetts
        Date: Sep 25, 2017


    •  Topic: Systems for Big Graph Analytics
        Alabama IEEE Computer Society Talk
        Venue: The University of Alabama, Tuscaloosa, Alabama
        Date: Oct 21, 2016


    •  Topic: Systems for Big Graph Analytics [LINK]
        Venue: City University of Hong Kong, Kowloon Tong, Hong Kong
        Date: Jun 2, 2016


    •  Topic: Systems and Algorithms for Big Data Analytics [LINK]
        Venue: University of California, Riverside (UCR), California
        Date: Feb 29, 2016


    •  Topic: Systems and Algorithms for Big Data Analytics [LINK]
        Venue: Michigan Technological University, Houghton, Michigan
        Date: Feb 22, 2016


    •  Topic: Systems and Algorithms for Big Data Analytics [LINK]
        Venue: University of Notre Dame, Notre Dame, Indiana
        Date: Feb 9, 2016


    •  Topic: Systems and Algorithms for Big Data Analytics [LINK]
        Venue: Hong Kong Baptist University (HKBU), Kowloon Tong, Hong Kong
        Date: Jan 21, 2016


    •  Topic: Systems and Algorithms for Big Data Analytics [LINK]
        Venue: Hong Kong Baptist University (HKBU), Kowloon Tong, Hong Kong
        Date: Nov 25, 2015


    •  Topic: Distributed Graph Computing: Algorithms and Systems
        Venue: Sun Yat-Sen University (SYSU), Guangzhou, China
        Date: Nov 14, 2014


    •  Topic: Distributed Graph Computing Beyond Pregel
        Venue: Alibaba Xixi Park (Taobao City), Hangzhou, China
        Date: May 23, 2014


    •  Topic: Distributed Graph Computing: Algorithms and Systems
        Venue: National Institute of Informatics (NII), Tokyo, Japan
        Date: May 8, 2014


    •  Topic: Query Processing in Spatial Databases
        Venue: East China Normal University (ECNU), Shanghai, China
        Date: Dec, 2012