Min Wang

Biography

Min Wang is a Distinguished Technologist and the Director of HP Labs China, which focuses on information analysis and networking. Her team's research areas include large scale data management, web content extraction and analysis, networking and communications.

Prior to joining HP, Dr. Wang led a 10-year career at IBM Research, most recently as a Research Staff Member and the manager of the Unified Data Analytics Department at IBM's Thomas J. Watson Research Center in Hawthorne, New York, where she pursued her research interests in database systems and information management.

Over the course of her career at IBM, she has led several projects in the areas of Query Processing and Optimization for relational, XML, and streaming data, Information Integration, Electronic Commerce and Database Security, including the design and implementation of a significant component in DB2 9 pureXML release. She also has published broadly in the areas of database systems and information management.

In 2009, she received the ACM SIGMOD 2009 Test of Time Award for her 1999 SIGMOD paper, "Approximate Computation of Multidimensional Aggregates of Sparse Data Using WaveletsĦħ . The award acknowledges the best paper from the SIGMOD conference proceedings 10 years prior, based on the criterion of identifying the paper that has had the most impact (research, products, methodology) over the intervening decade.

She received her Ph.D. degree in Computer Science from Duke University and the B.S. and M.S. degrees, both in Computer Science, from Tsinghua University, Beijing, China.

Research Interests

• Query Processing and Optimization for Relational, XML, and Streaming Data
• Information Integration
• Information Retrieval and Analysis
• Electronic Commerce
• Data Mining

Awards

• 2009 SIGMOD Test of Time Award for the paper from the 1999 SIGMOD Conference that has had the most impact (research, products, methodology) over the intervening decade, ACM SIGMOD/PODS 2009 Conference, June 29-July 2, 2009, Providence, Rhode Island, USA.
  Paper: Approximate Computation of Multidimensional Aggregates of Sparse Data Using Wavelets (with Jeff Vitter).
• ER 2008 Conference Best Paper Award (DKE 25Year Award) (given by the Elsevier), 27th International Conference on Conceptual Modeling (ER 2008), Oct. 2008, Barcelona, Spain.
  Paper: Modeling and Querying E-Commerce Data in Hybrid Relational-XML DBMSs (with Lipyeow Lim and Haixun Wang).
• The Eighth Plateau Invention Achievement Award, IBM, July 2009. (The previous seven Plateau Invention Achievement Awards were awarded by IBM during 2001-2008.)
• Outstanding Technical Achievement Award (OTAA) for contribution to DB2XML, Jan 2007, IBM.
• Outstanding Ph.D. Dissertation Award, Department of Computer Science, Duke University, 1999-2000 academic year.
  Dissertation: Approximation and Learning Techniques in Database Systems

Publications

Min has published over 50 technical papers.

Professional activities

• Chair, Industrial and Applications Track, VLDB 2012.
• Program Committee Member and Group Leader, SIGMOD 2011.
• Review Board Member, VLDB Journal Track (PVLDB), Sept. 2008-Jan. 2010.
• Chair, IBM Research Professional Interest Community on Data Management (DM PIC), Jan. 2008-Dec. 2009.
• Program Committee Member for SIGMOD 2010, VLDB 2009 and other conferences.

Patents

Min holds 12 patents (plus 24 pending patent applications) in the areas of Query Optimization, Approximate Query Processing, Electronic Commerce, Database Security, and Semantic Data Management.