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Other Name(s)
Byron Choi
Chinese Name
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
View update and incremental maintenance
Expertise related to UN Sustainable Development Goals
In 2015, UN member states agreed to 17 global Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs) to end poverty, protect the planet and ensure prosperity for all. This person’s work contributes towards the following SDG(s):
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Collaborations and top research areas from the last five years
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Empowering Net-Zero Cities: Unleashing the Full Potential of Smart Data-Enabled Networks and Scalability from energy communities – A Comparative Study of Urban Living Labs (ULLs) in Hong Kong, Seoul, and Bristol
MAH, D.N.-Y. (PI), CHEUNG, D.M.-W. (CoI), KWOK, K. C. (CoI), CHOI, B. (CoI), Ooi, N. (CoI), Mori, A. (CoI), Lo, A. (CoI), Yun, S.-J. (CoI), Leung, K. H. M. (CoI), FOGG-ROGERS, L. (CoI), Chun, K. P. (CoI), Kim, H. (CoI), McLellan, B. (CoI) & Siu, A. (CoI)
1/01/26 → 30/06/28
Project: Research project
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Asian-European cities online energy map
MAH, D.N.-Y. (PI), CHEUNG, D.M.-W. (CoI), CHOI, B. (CoI) & LO, T. S. K. (CoI)
1/03/23 → 3/07/25
Project: Digital scholarship project
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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
Research Output
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Accelerating D-core Maintenance over Dynamic Directed Graphs
Liao, X., Liu, Q., Jiang, J., Choi, B., He, B. & Xu, J., 19 May 2025, Proceedings of the 41st IEEE International Conference on Data Engineering, ICDE 2025. IEEE, p. 696-709 14 p. (International Conference on Data Engineering).Research output: Chapter in book/report/conference proceeding › Conference proceeding › peer-review
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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., Jun 2025, In: IEEE Transactions on Knowledge and Data Engineering. 37, 6, p. 3413-3428 16 p.Research output: Contribution to journal › Journal article › peer-review
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leSAX Index: A Learned SAX Representation Index for Time Series Similarity Search
Li, G., Choi, B., Zuo, R., Bhowmick, S. S. & Xu, J., 20 May 2025, Proceedings of the 41st IEEE International Conference on Data Engineering, ICDE 2025. Hong Kong: IEEE, (International Conference on Data Engineering).Research output: Chapter in book/report/conference proceeding › Conference proceeding › peer-review
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LICS: Towards Theory-Informed Effective Visual Abstraction of Property Graph Schemas
Chantharojwong, K., Bhowmick, S. S. & Choi, B., 18 Jun 2025, In: Proceedings of the ACM on Management of Data. 3, 3, p. 1-26 26 p., 180.Research output: Contribution to journal › Conference article › peer-review
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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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Distributed and Parallel Databases (Journal)
CHOI, B. (Associate editor)
1 Mar 2025 → …Activity: Publication peer-review/editorial work › Editor/reviewer for publications (incl. CDCF T61 Journal Editor)
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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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