Hui Luo

Room 3.111, Faculty of Engineering and Information Sciences, Wollongong 2500, Australia · huil@uow.edu.au

I am currently a Lecturer in the School of Computing and Information Technology at University of Wollongong since July 2023. Prior to that, I was an ARC research fellow at School of Computing Technologies from RMIT University under the surpervison of Prof. Zhifeng Bao since September 2022. My research interests include data science and data mining.


Education

August 2017 - December 2021

Wuhan University (WHU)

Master of Engineering
School of Computer Science (without entrance examinations)

Supervisor: Prof. Shi Ying

September 2014 - June 2017

North China Electric Power University (NCEPU)

Bachelor of Engineering
School of Computer Science

Supervisor: Prof. Baoyi Wang

September 2010 - June 2014

Ongoing Projects

Intelligent Transportation

Intelligent transportation system aims to provide innovative services related to different transportation modes and trajectory planning, which enable riders to have safe, convenient and economic friendly trips. Among a lot of transportation strategies, we aim to study a promising service: ridesharing, which can encourage users with similar itineraries and time schedules to share their trips. Such service can save money, reduce traffic congestion and increase car seat utilization, which can bring win-win benefit among drivers and riders. In our research, we aim to study how to find a bilateral matching between a set of drivers and riders under a series of spatial-temporal constraints dynamicly.

Multi-level Spatial Object Recommendation

What does a user expect when using a personalized map service for spatial object recommendation? We observe that the following questions may matter to cater for users’ intention: (1) what does the system recommend for users at different stages of data exploration when they zoom in or zoom out the map application? (2) why does the system recommend a particular spatial object to the users? In this project, we focus on the POI recommender system in a multi-level manner by involving spatial granularity information. To this end, we expect that users can be recommended effective POIs when they have personal requirements on spatial granularity, or even they do not provide any specific intentions on where to go. Our model can completely explore the intrinsic spatial containment relationship between a POI point and a suburb then provide recommendations for varying spatial granularity. Moreover, users will be acknowledged about additional hints on why such a recommendation is generated.


Experience

Project Experience

National natural science fund project

A self-optimizing approach for SaaS software deployment towards performance improvement

Design a kind of SaaS software deployment Language SSDL, which is SaaS software deployment scheme oriented, in order to provide data information for software performance optimization and support the auto-optimization process.

September 2015 - March 2016

National 863 high-tech industrialization project

Integrated disaster reduction geo-spatial data information system

Construct a register center to store varying spatial data information and answer spatial-textual query effectively. Develop a personalized business process orchestration tool to configure, transfer and monitor heterogeneous data.

September 2014 - June 2016

Teaching Experience

Tutor on Big Data Management (COSC2636)

@RMIT University
March 2019 - June 2019 & March 2020 - June 2020

Job Experience

ARC Research Fellow

@RMIT University
September 2022 - June 2023

Research Assistant

@University of Melbourne
February 2022 - September 2022

Research Assistant of Space Research Center

@RMIT University
November 2021 - January 2022

Visiting scholar of SCALE@NTU Corp Lab

@NTU
August 2019 - January 2020

Visiting scholar of Business Intelligent Lab

@Baidu Inc.
November 2018 - February 2019

Publications

Conference
  • Hui Luo, Zhifeng Bao, J. Shane Culpepper, Mingzhao Li, Yanchang Zhao. Facility Relocation Search For Good: When Facility Exposure Meets User Convenience. In International World Wide Web Conference (WWW), 2023. (Full paper, CORE A*)
  • Daomin Ji, Hui Luo, Zhifeng Bao. Visualization Recommendation Through Visual Relation Learning and Visual Preference Learning. In IEEE International Conference on Data Engineering (ICDE), 2023. (Full paper, CORE A*)
  • Hui Luo, Jessica Bhardwaj, Suelynn Choy, and Yuriy Kuleshov. Applying machine learning for threshold selection in drought early warning system. Climate, 10(7): 97, 2022.
  • David Alexander Tedjopurnomo, Zhifeng Bao, Farhana Choudhury, Hui Luo, and A. K. Qin. Equitable public bus network optimization for social good: a case study of Singapore. In ACM Conference on Fairness, Accountability, and Transparency (FAccT), 2022.
  • Hui Luo, Jingbo Zhou, Zhifeng Bao, Shuangli Li, J.Shane Culpepper, Haochao Ying, Hao Liu, and Hui Xiong. Spatial object recommendation with hints: When spatial granularity matters. In International ACM SIGIR Conference on Research and Development in Information Retrieval (SIGIR), pages 781-790, 2020. (Full paper, CORE A*). [Paper][Slide][Video]
  • Bo Dong, Shi Ying, Lin Li, Hui Luo, and Zhe Yang. Impact Analysis About Response Time Considering Deployment Change of SaaS Software. In International Conference on Software Engineering and Knowledge Engineering (SEKE), pages 977-1004, 2020. (Full paper, CORE B)
  • Hui Luo, Farhana M. Choudhury, Zhifeng Bao, J. Shane Culpepper, and Bang Zhang. MaxBRkNN Queries for Streaming Geo-Data. Maxbrknn queries for streaming geo-data. In International Conference on Database Systems for Advanced Applications (DASFAA), pages 647-664, 2018. (Full paper, CORE B) [Paper][Slide]
Journal
  • Tingting Wang, Hui Luo, Zhifeng Bao, and Lei Duan: Dynamic Ridesharing with Minimal Regret: Towards an Enhanced Engagement Among Three Stakeholders. IEEE Transactions on Knowledge and Data Engineering (TKDE), 2022: 1-14. (CORE A*)
  • Hui Luo, Zhifeng Bao, Gao Cong, J. Shane Culpepper, and Nguyen Lu Dang Khoa. Let trajectories speak out the traffic bottlenecks. ACM Transactions on Intelligent Systems and Technology (TIST), 2021. (SJR Q1) [Paper]
  • Hui Luo, Zhifeng Bao, Farhana Choudhury, and J. Shane Culpepper. Dynamic ridesharing in peak travel periods. IEEE Transactions on Knowledge and Data Engineering (TKDE), 2019: 2888-2902. (CORE A*) [Paper]
  • Guangyu Zhang, Shi Ying, Xiangyang Jia, Hui Luo. A Method to Orchestrate both RESTful Service and SOAP Service Driven by Metadata. Application Research of Computers, 2018, 35(03):777-781.
  • Hui Luo, Shi Ying, Lin Li, Bo Dong. Software Deployment Description Language for Performance Optimization. Computer Engineering, 2017, 43(06):11-18.
Patent
  • Shi Ying, Bo Dong, Weidong Wen, Min Peng, Xiangyang Jia, Xu Chen, Min Luo, Hui Luo, Ting Zhang, and Yong Wang. Establishment method of SaaS software deployment scheme supporting performance analysis. Chinese Patent, 105159736A.

Awards

  • Best PC Award of CIKM, 2022
  • Research Achievement Award for outstanding research performance in the academic year of RMIT, 2020
  • PhD Stipend and Top-up Scholarship of Data61 CSIRO, 2017-2021
  • 2nd Scholarship of WHU, 2016
  • 2nd Scholarship of WHU, 2015
  • Third Prize Award of the National Graduate Contest on Smart City Technology and Creative Design, 2015
  • Outstanding Undergraduate of Hebei Province Ordinary University, 2014
  • Excellent Undergraduate of NCEPU, 2014
  • Alumni Scholarship of NCEPU, 2013
  • 2nd Scholarship of NCEPU, 2013
  • Third Prize Award in the National College Students English Competition, 2013
  • 1st Scholarship of NCEPU, 2012

Professional Services

  • Conference Program Committee
    • – AAAI 2023: AAAI Conference on Artificial Intelligence (CORE A*)
    • – SIGKDD 2022: Special Interest Group on Knowledge Discovery in Data (CORE A*)
    • – SIGIR 2022: International ACM SIGIR Conference on Research and Development in Information Retrieval (CORE A*)
    • – WSDM 2022: ACM International Conference on Web Search and Data Mining (CORE A*)
    • – CIKM 2021: ACM International Conference on Information and Knowledge Management (CORE A)
    • – ER 2021 since 2020: International Conference on Conceptual Modeling (CORE A)
    • – APWeb-WAIM 2021: International Joint Conference on Web and Big Data
  • Journal Reviewer
    • – TKDE: IEEE Transactions on Knowledge and Data Engineering (CORE A*)
  • Subreviewer
    • – SIGMOD 2022: ACM SIGMOD International Conference on Management of Data (CORE A*)
    • – SIGKDD since 2020: Special Interest Group on Knowledge Discovery in Data (CORE A*)
    • – VLDB since 2019: International Conference on Very Large Data Bases (CORE A*)
    • – SIGIR since 2019: International ACM SIGIR Conference on Research and Development in Information Retrieval (CORE A*)
    • – ICDE since 2018: IEEE International Conference on Data Engineering (CORE A*)

Skills

Programming Languages & Tools
Language
  • English - Fluent
  • Mandarin - Native speaker