Wensheng Wu

Assistant Professor Computer Science Department UNC Charlotte 9201 University City Blvd Charlotte, NC 28223

Woodward Hall 430E (704)687-7022

Research (KDD Lab)

Database, data mining, information retrieval, and Web technology, with a current focus on large-scale data integration and metadata management.

Selected Publications [DBLP]

• Modeling and Extracting Deep-Web Query Interfaces. W. Wu, A. Doan, C. Yu, and W. Meng. Advances in Information and Intelligent Systems, 2009.
• Discovering Topical Structures of Databases. W. Wu, B. Reinwald, Y. Sismanis, and R. Manjrekar. SIGMOD-08.
• WebIQ: Learning from the Web to Match Deep-Web Query Interfaces. W. Wu, A. Doan, and C. Yu. ICDE-06.
• Merging Interface Schemas on the Deep Web via Clustering Aggregation. W. Wu, A. Doan, and C. Yu. ICDM-05.
• An Interactive Clustering-based Approach to Integrating Source Query Interfaces on the Deep Web. W. Wu, C. Yu, A. Doan, and W. Meng. SIGMOD-04.
• Efficient and Effective Metasearch for Text Databases Incorporating Linkages among Documents. C. Yu, W. Meng, W. Wu, and K. Liu. SIGMOD-01.

Teaching

• ITCS 6163/8163, Data Warehousing: Spring 2012, Spring 2011, Spring 2010, Spring 2009
• ITCS 6010/8010, Data Integration: Spring 2012
• ITCS 6160/8160, Database Systems: Fall 2011, Fall 2010
• ITCS 6010/8010, Data Integration & Services Computing: Spring 2011, Fall 2008
• ITCS 6265/8265, Information Retrieval & Web Mining: Fall 2009

Recent Services

• Professional:
• PC member: ICDM-2011, ISMIS-2011, ICDM-2010, ICDM-09, APWeb/WAIM-09, WAIM-08, AAAI-07
• Panel: NSF IIS Proposal Review Panel, 2011
• Reviewer: J. of Intelligent Information Systems 2009, 2008, IJCAI-07
• External referee: SCC-08, VLDB Journal 2008, SIGMOD-08, ICDE-08, SIGMOD-07, SCC-07, CollaborateCom-07
• Departmental:
• Graduate Committee (Chair), Department of Computer Science, UNCC, 2010-2011
• Ph.D. Admissions & Review Committee, Department of Computer Science, UNCC, 2009-2010
• Teaching Review Committee, Department of Computer Science, UNCC, Spring 2009
• Adhoc Space Committee, College of Computing and Informatics, UNCC, Spring 2009

Recent Awards & Honors

• Duke Energy Envision Charlotte Grant, 2011
• Faculty Research Grant, UNC Charlotte, 2010
• Finalist for Ralph E. Powe Faculty Enhancement Award, 2009
• Wachovia Foundation Fund For Faculty Excellence, Charlotte Research Institute, 2008
• Invention Achievement Award, IBM, 2008
• Bravo Award for Technical Achievement, IBM, 2007
• Thanks! Award for Technical Achievement, IBM, 2007

Patents

• Discovering Topical Structures of Databases, U.S. Patent #7818323, Granted in 2010.