Prof. Wen Hua is currently an Associate Professor in the Department of Data Science and Artificial
Intelligence at the Hong Kong Polytechnic University. She received her Bachelor’s degree (under the
supervision of Prof. Xiaoyong Du) and PhD degree (under the supervision of Prof. Xiaofang Zhou) in
Computer Science from Renmin University of China in 2010 and 2015, respectively. Before joining
PolyU, she worked as a Senior Lecturer (tenured) and an ARC DECRA Senior Research Fellow in the
School of Information Technology and Electrical Engineering at the University of Queensland. She was
awarded the Advance Queensland Early Career Research Fellowship
(
AQRF) in
2017 and the ARC Discovery Early Career Researcher Award (
DECRA) in 2021, two highly-competitive fellowships for
early-career researchers. Her current research interests include information extraction and
retrieval, data mining, natural language processing, spatiotemporal data management,
high-performance query processing, and social media analytics. She has published 90+ papers in
reputed journals and top international conferences such as SIGMOD, PVLDB, ICDE, TKDE, VLDBJ, IJCAI,
AAAI, NeurIPS, SIGIR, TheWebConf, CIKM, WSDM, WWWJ, etc. Her publications have received the ICDE
2015 Best Paper Award, CIKM 2022 Best Paper Honourable Mention Award, etc.
