Jeffrey Xu Yu is an Emeritus Professor in the Department of Systems Engineering and Engineering Management at The Chinese University of Hong Kong. He took his bachelor's, master's and doctoral degrees at the University of Tsukuba in Japan and has worked for decades on databases and graph data; his current research interests include keyword search in relational databases, graph mining, graph query processing and graph pattern matching. He has been active in the international research community, serving on the organising or programme committees of more than three hundred conferences and workshops, and as programme committee co-chair of meetings including APWeb, WAIM, WISE, PAKDD, DASFAA, ICDM and CIKM, and general co-chair of APWeb and ICDM. In professional service he was information director and a member of the ACM SIGMOD executive committee from 2007 to 2011, an associate editor of IEEE Transactions on Knowledge and Data Engineering from 2004 to 2008 and of the VLDB Journal from 2007 to 2013, and chair of the steering committee of the Asia Pacific Web Conference from 2013 to 2016. He continues to serve as an associate editor of ACM Transactions on Database Systems, the WWW Journal, the International Journal of Cooperative Information Systems, the Journal of Information Processing, and the Journal on Health Information Science and Systems.
Yu has worked on locating information in large databases through keywords and graph patterns, and through conference and journal service has connected database research in the Asia-Pacific region with the wider international community.
Achievements
- 2004 · Served as an associate editor of IEEE Transactions on Knowledge and Data Engineering until 2008.
- 2007 · Served as information director and member of the ACM SIGMOD executive committee until 2011.
- 2013 · Chaired the steering committee of the Asia Pacific Web Conference until 2016.