Yanwei Yu is a professor in the College of Computer Science and Technology of Ocean University of China. He received the B.S. degree from Liaocheng University, China, in 2008 and the Ph.D. degree from University of Science and Technology Beijing, China, in 2014, respectively. From 2012 to 2013, he was a visiting Ph.D. student at the Department of Computer Science of Worcester Polytechnic Institute. From 2016 to 2018, he was a postdoc researcher at the College of Information Sciences and Technology of Pennsylvania State University. His research interests include data mining, machine learning, distributed computing, and database systems. He published more than 60 papers in TODS, TKDD, TBD, KDD, WWW, AAAI, IJCAI, UbiComp, ICDE, CIKM, DASFAA, and other top journals and conferences. His research is funded by the National Natural Science Foundation of China, the National Science Foundations, the Natural Science Foundation of Shandong Province, and the Shandong Provincial Key R&D Program.

Email: yuyanwei@ouc.edu.cn

• 2022/11-Now, Professor, College of Computer Science and Technology, Ocean University of China
• 2019/08-2022/10, Associate Professor, College of Computer Science and Technology, Ocean University of China
• 2018/09-2019/08, Associate Professor, School of Computer and Control Engineering, Yantai University
• 2014/03-2018/08, Assistant Professor, School of Computer and Control Engineering, Yantai University

• 2016/11-2018/09, Postdoc Researcher, IST, Pennsylvania State University, United States
• 2012/09-2013/10, Visiting Ph.D. Student, Dept. of Computer Science, Worcester Polytechnic Institute, United States
• 2008/09-2014/01, Ph.D., Computer Science, University of Science and Technology Beijing, China
• 2004/09-2008/07, B.Sc. , School of Computer, Liaocheng University, China

• Reviewer of National Natural Science Foundation of China (2015-Now)
• Board member of ShanDong Association for Artificial Intelligence
• PC Member: SIGIR2024, KDD2024, AAAI2024, PAKDD2023, SDM2023, SIGIR2023, KDD2023, WSDM2023, WWW2023, AAAI2023, IJCAI2022, WWW2022, AAAI2022, KDD2022, SDM2022, KDD2021, AAAI2021, SDM2021, KDD2020, AAAI2020, SDM2020, KDD2019, CIKM2019, SDM2019, IPCCC2018, UrbComp2018, DIT2018, InTI2018, UrbComp2016
• Reviewer: IEEE Transactions on Cybernetics, IEEE Transactions on Mobile Computing, ACM - Transactions on Intelligent Systems and Technology, IEEE Transactions on Big Data, Knowledge-based Systems, IEEE Access.

[2022-2025] NSFC, 62176243, "Representation Learning for Large-Scale Complex Spatiotemporal Data and Its Applications", ￥739,000, PI New!
[2018-2021] NSFC, 61773331, "Semantic Annotation and Semantic Pattern Mining for Trajectory Big Data", ￥768,000, PI
[2017-2019] Shandong HEST Program, J17KA091, "Key Technologies for Real-time Traffic Big Data Mining Supporting Public Location Services", ￥35,000, PI
[2015-2017] NSFC-Youth, 61403328, "Distributed Anomalous Event Detection over Big Spatio-Temporal Data Streams", ￥250,000, PI
[2014-2016] Jilin University, 93K172014K13, "Distributed Spatio-Temporal Outlier Detection.", ￥20,000, PI
[2016-2019] NSFC, 61572409, "Multi-agents Qualitative Game Playng Based on CP-nets", ￥610,000, Co-PI
[2015-2019] Shandong Provincial Key R&D Program, 2015GSF115009, "Cloud Storage Platform for Marine Ecology Big Data in Shandong Offshore", ￥200,000, Co-PI
[2012-2015] NSFC, 61172049, "Study on TOA Ranging Error model and its application based on Time/Power Metrics of Channel", ￥600,000, Participant
[2011-2013] NSFC-Youth, 61003251, "Online Modeling for Temporal Variations of Multi-channel Links in Frequency Hopping based Wireless Sensor Networks", ￥180,000, Participant
[2009-2013] NSF, 0917017, "III: Small: Query Mesh - A Novel Paradigm for Query Processing", $500,000, Participant

• Database System (Undergrad)
• Data Warehousing and Data Mining (Graduate)