Academic Qualification

Ph.D. in Department of Computer Science and Engineering, Hong Kong University of Science and Technology

Bachelor in School of Electronic Science and Engineering, Nanjing University

Teaching Area

Machine learning

Data structure

Database Systems

Natural Language Processing

Research Area

Spatial Databases

Urban Computing

AI for Databases

Professional Services

Program Committee Member: KDD (2023, 2024, 2025), ACL (2021, 2022, 2023, 2024), ICDE (2021, 2022, 2024, 2025), NAACL (2021, 2022), EMNLP (2021, 2022, 2023, 2024), CIKM (2021, 2022, 2023, 2024), COLM (2024), COLING (2018, 2020), PAKDD (2020, 2021, 2022, 2023), SIGSPATIAL (2023), SSTD (2021), BigData (2019, 2020), BigComp (2019, 2020)

Best Demo Committee Member of ICDE 2022, Proceeding Co-Chairs of SSTD 2025

Working Experience

Jan. 2025 ~ present, Assistant Professor, School of Computer Science and Engineering, Faculty of Innovation Engineering, MUST

Mar. 2023 ~ Jan. 2025, Research Assistant Professor, Department of Computer Science and Engineering, The Hong Kong University of Science & Technology

Nov. 2021 ~ Mar. 2023, Research Assistant Professor, Department of Computing, The Hong Kong Polytechnic University

Oct. 2018 ~ Nov. 2021, AI Researcher, Noah’s Ark Lab, Huawei Technologies

Academic Publication (selected, * denotes the corresponding author)

1.          Weicheng Wang, Victor Junqiu Wei*, Min Xie*, Di Jiang, Lixin Fan, Haijun Yang.
Interactive Search with Reinforcement Learning.
To appear in Proceedings of the IEEE International Conference on Data Engineering, (ICDE), 2025

2.          Weixu Zhang, Yifei Wang, Yuanfeng Song, Victor Junqiu Wei, Yuxing Tian, Yiyan Qi, Jonathan H Chan, Raymond Chi-Wing Wong, Haiqin Yang.
Natural Language Interfaces for Tabular Data Querying and Visualization: A Survey.
Proceedings of the IEEE Transaction on Knowledge and Data Engineering, (TKDE), 2024

3.          Victor Junqiu Wei, Raymond Chi-Wing Wong, Cheng Long, David M. Mount, Hanan Samet.
On Efficient Shortest Path Computation on Terrain Surface: A Direction-Oriented Approach.
Proceedings of the IEEE Transaction on Knowledge and Data Engineering, (TKDE), 2024

4.          Yan Ge, Victor Junqiu Wei*, Yuanfeng Song*, Jason Chen Zhang, Raymond Chi-Wing Wong.
Automatic Data Visualization Generation from Chinese Natural Language Questions.
Proceedings of the Joint International Conference on Computational Linguistics, Language Resources and Evaluation (LREC-COLING), 2024

5.          Junyu Lu, Rongzhong Lian, Di Jiang, Yuanfeng Song, Zhiyang Su, Victor Junqiu Wei, Lin Yang.
Pretraining Enhanced RNN Transducer.
Proceedings of the CAAI Artificial Intelligence Research, 2024

6.          Bo Huang, Victor Junqiu Wei*, Raymond Chi-Wing Wong, Bo Tang*.
EAR-Oracle: On Efficient Indexing for Distance Queries between Arbitrary Points on Terrain Surface.
Proceedings of ACM Conference on Management of Data, Seatle, USA, (SIGMOD), 2023.

7.          Weibin Wu, Jianping Zhang, Victor Junqiu Wei, Xixian Chen, Zibin Zheng, Irwin King, Michael Lyu.
Practical and Efficient Model Extraction of Sentiment Analysis APIs.
Proceedings of the 45th IEEE/ACM International Conference on Software Engineering (ICSE), 2023.

8.          Dandan Lin, Victor Junqiu Wei* and Raymond Chi-Wing Wong.
Effective and Scalable Manifold Ranking-based Image Retrieval with Output Bound.
Proceedings of ACM Transactions on Knowledge Discovery from Data (TKDD), 2023.

9.          Victor Junqiu Wei, Raymond Chi-Wing Wong, Cheng Long, David M. Mount, Hanan Samet.
Proximity Queries on Terrain Surface.
Proceedings of ACM Transactions on Database System (TODS), 2022.

10.      Sunzhu Li, Peng Zhang, Guobing Gan, Xiuqing Lv, Benyou Wang, Junqiu Wei and Xin Jiang.
Hypoformer: Hybrid Decomposition Transformer for Edge-friendly Neural Machine Translation.
Proceedings of the 2022 Conference on Empirical Methods in Natural Language Processing, (EMNLP), 2022.

11.      Ningning Wang, Guobing Gan, Peng Zhang, Shuai Zhang, Junqiu Wei, Qun Liu, Xin Jiang.
ClusterFormer: Neural Clustering Attention for Efficient and Effective Transformer.
Proceedings of the 60th Annual Meeting of the Association for Computational Linguistics, (ACL), 2022

12.      Jing Zhang, Peng Zhang, Baiwen Kong, Junqiu Wei, Xin Jiang.
Continuous Self-Attention Models with Neural ODE Networks.
Proceedings of the Thirty-Fifth AAAI Conference on Artificial Intelligence, (AAAI), 2021

13.      Victor Junqiu Wei, Raymond Chi-Wing Wong, Cheng Long.
Architecture-Intact Oracle for Fastest Path and Time Queries on Dynamic Spatial Networks.
Proceedings of ACM Conference on Management of Data, Portland, USA, (SIGMOD), 2020
(Nominee of the Best Paper Award)

14.      Victor Junqiu Wei, Raymond Chi-Wing Wong, Cheng Long, Pan Hui.
On Nearby-Fit Spatial Keyword Queries (Extended Abstract).
Proceedings of the 36th IEEE International Conference on Data Engineering, (ICDE), 2020

15.      Dandan Lin, Raymond Chi-Wing Wong, Min Xie, Victor Junqiu Wei.
Index-Free Approach with Theoretical Guarantee for Efficient Random Walk with Restart Query.
Proceedings of the 36th IEEE International Conference on Data Engineering, (ICDE), 2020

16.      Victor Junqiu Wei, Raymond Chi-Wing Wong, Cheng Long, Pan Hui.
On Nearby-Fit Spatial Keyword Queries.
Proceedings of the IEEE Transaction on Knowledge and Data Engineering, (TKDE), 2020

17.      Dandan Lin, Victor Junqiu Wei and Raymond Chi-Wing Wong.
First Index-Free Manifold Ranking-based Image Retrieval with Output Bound.
Proceedings of the IEEE International Conference on Data Mining, Beijing, China, (ICDM), 2019

18.      Cheng Long, Raymond Chi-Wing Wong and Victor Junqiu Wei.
Profit Maximization with Sufficient Customer Satisfactions.
Proceedings of ACM Transactions on Knowledge Discovery from Data (TKDD), 2018

19.      Victor Junqiu Wei, Raymond Chi-Wing Wong, Cheng Long, David M. Mount.
Distance Oracle on Terrain Surface.
Proceedings of ACM Conference on Management of Data, Chicago, USA (SIGMOD), 2017

Research Grants

2024.02 -- 2026.12    "On Boosting Personalized PageRank with Statistical Learning Theory-Inspired Progressive Sampling Method" (Principle Investigator (PI), General Program, Guangdong Basic and Applied Basic Research Foundation（广东省基础与应用基础研究基金）)

2024.02 -- 2025.02    "Natural Language Interface for the Database Query Processing: Pretraining, Interactive Search and Beyond" (Principle Investigator (PI), HKUST & WeBank Joint Laboratory Project)

2022.02 -- 2023.02    "Online Trajectory Compression with Deep Reinforcement Learning" (Principle Investigator (PI), Internal Fund, Hong Kong Polytechnic University)

Patents

1.          Peng Zhang, Ningning Wang, Guobing Gan, Junqiu Wei.
A Method for Word Representation Learning Based on Self-Attention Mechanism.
（一种基于自注意力机制的词向量表示方法及自注意力模型）
Patent Number: CN113761934B, Chinese Patent (Granted)

2.          Pan Hui, Junqiu Wei, Christoph Peylo.
System and method for mobile augmented reality task scheduling.
Patent Number: 10360073, US Patent (Granted)

3.          Qimei Chen, Chao Xiao, Junqiu Wei, Bo Li, Xiangjun Chen, Yaduan Ruan.
Map-Based Traffic Surveillance System on Vehicular Networks
（交通区域动态地图监控预测系统）
Patent Number: 201210309274.X, Chinese Patent (Granted)

4.          Yaduan Ruan, Junqiu Wei, Chao Xiao,Bo Li, Qimei Chen ,Xiangjun Chen.
Virtual Terminal on Vehicular Networks based on Dynamic Map
（基于动态地图界面的车载虚拟终端系统）
Patent Number: 2012103127683, Chinese Patent (Granted)

5.          Peng Zhang, Jing Zhang, Junqiu Wei.
A Method and Apparatus for Natural Language Processing.
（一种自然语言处理方法以及装置）
Patent Number: CN112883149A, Chinese Patent (Pending)

6.          Peng Zhang, Shuai Zhang, Xindian Ma, Junqiu Wei.
A Method and Apparatus for Text Processing and Neural Networks.
（一种文本处理网络、神经网络训练的方法以及相关设备）
Patent Number: CN111797589A, Chinese Patent (Pending)

7.          Junqiu Wei, Yi Liao, Xin Jiang, Qun Liu, Li Qian.
A Method and Apparatus for Data Processing.
（一种数据处理方法及相关设备）
Patent Number: CN115292439A, Chinese Patent (Pending)