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Other Name(s)
Byron Choi
Chinese Name
蔡冠球
Biography
Dr. Choi obtained his Ph.D. and MSE degrees in Computer and Information Science from the University of Pennsylvania (UPenn) in 2006 and 2001, 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, PVLDB/VLDB, IEEE ICDE, WWW, CIKM, AAAI, and IJCAI before. Dr. Choi is awarded a distinguished program committee member from ACM SIGMOD 2021. Dr. Choi received the best reviewers award from ACM CIKM 2021. He received the distinguished reviewer award from PVLDB 2019. Dr. Choi is the recipient of the HKBU President's Award for Outstanding Performance in Individual Teaching 2022 and the HKBU President's Award for Outstanding Young Researcher 2016. Dr. Choi is the director of a Croucher Foundation Advanced Study Institute (ASI) titled "Frontiers in Big Data Graph Research" 2015. Dr. Choi has served as the ACM SIGMOD information co-director since September 2021. He has served on the Editorial Board of Distributed and Parallel Databases (DAPD) as an Associate Editor since March 2025. Dr. Choi is a Fellow of the Hong Kong Institution of Engineers (HKIE), the Information discipline.
Research Interests
Visual graph query processing
Time series analysis
Database security
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Expertise related to UN Sustainable Development Goals
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Collaborations and top research areas from the last five years
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Delivering carbon-neutral goals through smart social learning in communities: A cross-cultural analysis of three Asian cities (Kyoto, Seoul and Hong Kong)
MAH, D.N.-Y. (PI), CHEUNG, D.M.-W. (CoI), CHOI, B. (CoI), Kim, H. (CoI), McLellan, B. (CoI), Siu, A. (CoI) & Yun, S.-J. (CoI)
1/01/23 → 30/06/25
Project: Research project
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Exploring the role of big data analytics in promoting smart low-carbon cities: A human-centered, community-based, and deep engagement approach in Hong Kong
MAH, D.N.-Y. (PI), CHAN, M. H. (CoPI), CHEUNG, D.M.-W. (CoPI), CHOI, B. (CoPI), CHUN, K. P. (CoPI), GUO, Y.-K. (CoPI), LO, T. S. K. (CoPI), NG, K. S. K. (CoPI), ZHOU, Q. (CoPI), Deng, L. (Collaborator), Huang, L. (Collaborator), HUI, D. P. K. (Collaborator), Lam, K. H. (Collaborator), Lee, T. (Collaborator), Leung, K. H. M. (Collaborator), McLellan, B. (Collaborator), Siu, A. (Collaborator) & Yun, S.-J. (Collaborator)
30/06/21 → 29/03/25
Project: Research project
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Semantic Indexing for Keyword Search on Graphs
CHOI, B. (PI)
1/01/20 → 30/06/23
Project: Research project
Research Output
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Bursting Flow Query on Large Temporal Flow Networks
Xu, L., Jiang, J., Choi, B., Xu, J. & He, B., 11 Feb 2025, In: Proceedings of the ACM on Management of Data. 3, 1, p. 1-26 26 p.Research output: Contribution to journal › Journal article › peer-review
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GPU-accelerated Structural Diversity Search in Graphs
Huang, J., Huang, X., Xu, J., Choi, B. & Peng, Y., 3 Mar 2025, (E-pub ahead of print) In: IEEE Transactions on Knowledge and Data Engineering. p. 1-14 14 p.Research output: Contribution to journal › Journal article › peer-review
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DARKER: Efficient Transformer with Data-driven Attention Mechanism for Time Series
Zuo, R., Li, G., Cao, R., Choi, B., Xu, J. & Bhowmick, S. S., Jul 2024, In: Proceedings of the VLDB Endowment. 17, 11, p. 3229-3242 14 p.Research output: Contribution to journal › Conference article › peer-review
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DKWS: A Distributed System for Keyword Search on Massive Graphs (Extended Abstract)
Jiang, J., Choi, B., Huang, X., Xu, J. & Bhowmick, S. S., 13 May 2024, 2024 IEEE 40th International Conference on Data Engineering (ICDE). IEEE, p. 5689-5690 2 p. 10597854. (Proceedings - International Conference on Data Engineering).Research output: Chapter in book/report/conference proceeding › Conference proceeding › peer-review
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DKWS: A Distributed System for Keyword Search on Massive Graphs
Jiang, J., Choi, B., Huang, X., Xu, J. & Bhowmick, S. S., May 2024, In: IEEE Transactions on Knowledge and Data Engineering. 36, 5, p. 1935-1950 16 p., 10262230.Research output: Contribution to journal › Journal article › peer-review
Prizes
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Best Paper Nomination
ZHU, X. (Recipient), HUANG, X. (Recipient), CHOI, B. (Recipient) & XU, J. (Recipient), 2020
Prize: Award
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Distinguished Program Committee Member, the ACM International Conference on Management of Data (SIGMOD), 2021
CHOI, K. K. (Recipient), Jun 2021
Prize: Other distinction
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Distinguished Program Committee Member, the ACM International Conference on Management of Data (SIGMOD), 2023
CHOI, B. (Recipient), Jun 2023
Prize: Award
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HKBU President's Award for Outstanding Performance in Individual Teaching 20222022
CHOI, B. (Recipient), 2022
Prize: Award
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Activities
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The 40th IEEE International Conference on Data Engineering (ICDE) PhD Symposium
CHOI, B. (Chair) & Jindal, A. (Chair)
16 Apr 2024Activity: Conference/talk/lecture/symposium/speech/workshop, etc › Event organized by non-HKBU units
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Hong Kong uses novel computation methods to develop COVID-19 hotspot map
XU, J., CHOI, B. & CHAN, T. N.
18/11/22
1 item of Media coverage
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