Chenhao Ma
Assistant Professor
School of Data Science
The Chinese University of Hong Kong, Shenzhen
Longgang, Shenzhen, Guangdong, China
machenhao (at) cuhk.edu.cn
Bio
Dr. Chenhao Ma is an Assistant Professor at the Chinese University of Hong Kong, Shenzhen. Prior to that, he was a Postdoctoral Fellow at the University of Hong Kong. He received his PhD degree from Department of Computer Science in the University of Hong Kong (HKU) in 2021. He once was a visiting student in the University of New South Wales (UNSW) in 2019. Till now, he has published more than 30 papers in the areas of database and data mining, including one of four Best of SIGMOD2020 (a world flagship conference in database areas, 4/458), and most of them were published in top-tier conferences and journals (e.g., SIGMOD, PVLDB, and TODS). He was awarded the ACM SIGMOD Research Highlight Award 2021. He has served as PC members and reviewers for several top conferences and journals (e.g., VLDB, KDD, WWW, CIKM, TKDE, and VLDBJ).
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Interests
His research interests mainly focus on large-scale data management and data mining:
Graph data management: dense subgraph search, motif analysis, convex optimization, GNN.
Traffic data mining: trajectory outlier detection, traffic network weight completion.
AI4DB: text2sql, dataset search.
Publications
* indicates Chenhao is a corresponding author
Effective Job-market Mobility Prediction with Attentive Heterogeneous Knowledge Learning and Synergy
Sida Lin, Zhouyi Zhang, Yankai Chen, Chenhao Ma*, Yixiang Fang, Shan Dai and Guangli Lu
In The Conference on Information and Knowledge Management (CIKM), Short, 2024.
PaperTowards Effective Top-N Hamming Search via Bipartite Graph Contrastive Hashing
Yankai Chen, Yixiang Fang, Yifei Zhang, Chenhao Ma, Yang Hong, Irwin King.
In IEEE Transactions on Knowledge and Data Engineering (TKDE), 2024.
PaperEfficient Maximal Motif-Clique Enumeration over Large Heterogeneous Information Networks
Yingli Zhou, Yixiang Fang, Chenhao Ma, Tianci Hou, Xin Huang
In Proceedings of the VLDB Endowment (PVLDB), 2024.
PaperScalable Algorithm for Finding Balanced Subgraphs with Tolerance in Signed Networks
Jingbang Chen, Qiuyang Mang, Hangrui Zhou, Richard Peng, Yu Gao, Chenhao Ma*
In SIGKDD Conference on Knowledge Discovery and Data Mining (KDD), 2024.
PaperBefore Generation, Align it! A Novel and Effective Strategy for Mitigating Hallucinations in Text-to-SQL Generation
Ge Qu, Jinyang Li, Bowen Li, Bowen Qin, Nan Huo, Chenhao Ma, Reynold Cheng
In Annual Meeting of the Association for Computational Linguistics (ACL), Findings, 2024.
PaperFDM: Effective and Efficient Incident Detection on Sparse Trajectory Data
Xiaolin Han, Tobias Grubenmann, Chenhao Ma*, Xiaodong Li, Wenya Sun, Sze Chun Wong, Xuequn Shang, Reynold Cheng
In Information Systems, 2024.
PaperTRoute: Dynamic Time-dependent Route Recommendation on Road Networks
Xiaolin Han, Xiurui Hu, Chenhao Ma, Xuequn Shang.
In 21th International Conference on Web Information Systems and Applications (WISA), 2024.Efficient and Effective Algorithms for Densest Subgraph Discovery and Maintenance.
Yichen Xu, Chenhao Ma*, Yixiang Fang, Zhifeng Bao
In The VLDB Journal, 2024.
PaperDistributed Shortest Distance Labeling on Large-Scale Graphs.
Yuanyuan Zeng, Chenhao Ma*, Yixiang Fang
In Proceedings of the VLDB Endowment (PVLDB), 17, 2024.
PaperEfficient Core Decomposition over Large Heterogeneous Information Networks
Yucan Guo, Chenhao Ma*, Yixiang Fang
In IEEE International Conference on Data Engineering (ICDE), 2024.
PaperA Counting-based Approach for Efficient 𝑘-Clique Densest Subgraph Discovery
Yingli Zhou, Qingshuo Guo, Yixiang Fang, Chenhao Ma
In Proceedings of the 2024 ACM SIGMOD International Conference on Management of Data (SIGMOD), 2024.
PaperOn Efficient Large Sparse Matrix Chain Multiplication
Chunxu Lin, Wensheng Luo, Yixiang Fang, Chenhao Ma, Xilin Liu, Yuchi Ma
In Proceedings of the 2024 ACM SIGMOD International Conference on Management of Data (SIGMOD), 2024.
PaperA Similarity-based Approach for Efficient Large Quasi-clique Detection
Jiayang Pang, Chenhao Ma*, Yixiang Fang
In ACM TheWebConf 2024 Conference (WWW), 2024.
PaperEfficient Distributed Hop-Constrained Path Enumeration on Large-Scale Graphs
Yuanyuan Zeng, Yixiang Fang, Chenhao Ma*, Xu Zhou, Kenli Li
In Proceedings of the 2024 ACM SIGMOD International Conference on Management of Data (SIGMOD), 2024.
PaperInfluential Exemplar Replay for Incremental Learning in Recommender Systems
Xinni Zhang, Yankai Chen, Chenhao Ma, Yixiang Fang, Irwin King
In AAAI Conference on Artificial Intelligence (AAAI), 2024.
PaperAccelerating Directed Densest Subgraph Queries with Software and Hardware Approaches
Chenhao Ma, Yixiang Fang, Reynold Cheng, Laks. V.S. Lakshmanan, Xiaolin Han, Xiaodong Li
In The VLDB Journal (VLDBJ), 33(1): 207-230, 2024.
Paper
MOSER: Scalable Network Motif Discovery using Serial Test
Mohammad Matin Najafi, Chenhao Ma, Xiaodong Li, Laks V.S. Lakshmanan, Reynold Cheng
In Proceedings of the VLDB Endowment (PVLDB), 17, 2023.
PaperCan LLM Already Serve as A Database Interface? A BIg Bench for Large-Scale Database Grounded Text-to-SQLs
Jinyang Li, Binyuan Hui, GE QU, Binhua Li, Jiaxi Yang, Bowen Li, Bailin Wang, Bowen Qin, Ruiying Geng, Nan Huo, Xuanhe Zhou, Chenhao Ma, Guoliang Li, Kevin Chang, Fei Huang, Reynold Cheng, Yongbin Li
In NeurIPS, Datasets and Benchmarks Track, Spotlight, 2023.
Paper | SlidesEfficient and Effective Algorithms for Generalized Densest Subgraph Discovery
Yichen Xu, Chenhao Ma*, Yixiang Fang, Zhifeng Bao
In Proceedings of the 2023 ACM SIGMOD International Conference on Management of Data (SIGMOD), 2023.
PaperOn Querying Connected Components in Large Temporal Graphs.
Haoxuan Xie, Yixiang Fang, Yuyang Xia, Wensheng Luo, Chenhao Ma
In Proceedings of the 2023 ACM SIGMOD International Conference on Management of Data (SIGMOD), 2023.
PaperGraphix-T5: Mixing Pre-Trained Transformers with Graph-Aware Layers for Text-to-SQL Parsing
Jinyang Li, Binyuan Hui, Reynold Cheng, Bowen Qin, Chenhao Ma, Nan Huo, Fei Huang, Wenyu Du, Luo Si, Yongbin Li
In AAAI Conference on Artificial Intelligence (AAAI), 2023.
PaperScalable Algorithms for Densest Subgraph Discovery
Wensheng Luo, Zhuo Tang, Yixiang Fang, Chenhao Ma, Xu Zhou.
In IEEE International Conference on Data Engineering (ICDE), 2023.
Paper
Densest Subgraph Discovery on Large Graphs: Applications, Challenges, and Techniques
Yixiang Fang, Wensheng Luo, Chenhao Ma.
In Proceedings of the VLDB Endowment (PVLDB), 15, 2022.
PaperFinding Locally Densest Subgraphs: A Convex Programming Approach
Chenhao Ma, Reynold Cheng, Laks V.S. Lakshmanan, Xiaolin Han
In Proceedings of the VLDB Endowment (PVLDB), 15, 2022.
PaperEffective Community Search over Large Star-Schema Heterogeneous Information Networks
Yangqin Jiang, Yixiang Fang, Chenhao Ma, Xin Cao, Chunshan Li
In Proceedings of the VLDB Endowment (PVLDB), 15, 2022.
PaperDeepTEA: Effective and Efficient Online Time-dependent Trajectory Outlier Detection
Xiaolin Han, Reynold Cheng, Chenhao Ma* and Tobias Grubenmann
In Proceedings of the VLDB Endowment (PVLDB), 15(7): 1493-1505, 2022.
PaperA Convex-Programming Approach for Efficient Directed Densest Subgraph Discovery
Chenhao Ma, Yixiang Fang, Reynold Cheng, Laks V.S. Lakshmanan, Xiaolin Han
In Proceedings of the 2022 ACM SIGMOD International Conference on Management of Data (SIGMOD), pages 845-859, 2022 .
PaperLeveraging Contextual Graphs for Stochastic Weight Completion in Sparse Road Networks
Xiaolin Han, Reynold Cheng, Tobias Grubenmann, Silviu Maniu, Chenhao Ma*, Xiaodong Li
In SIAM International Conference on Data Mining (SDM), pages 64-72, 2022.
PaperThe Social Technology and Research (STAR) Lab in the University of Hong Kong
Reynold Cheng, Chenhao Ma, Xiaodong Li, Yixiang Fang, Ye Liu, Victor Y.L. Wong, Esther Lee, Tai Hing Lam, Sai Yin Ho, Man Ping Wang, Weijie Gong, Wentao Ning, Ben Kao
In ACM SIGMOD Record, 51, 2022.
On Directed Densest Subgraph Discovery
Chenhao Ma, Yixiang Fang, Reynold Cheng, Laks V.S. Lakshmanan, Wenjie Zhang, Xuemin Lin
In ACM Transactions on Database Systems (TODS), 46(4):1-45, 2021.
Invited as one of four Best of SIGMOD 2020.
PaperEfficient Directed Densest Subgraph Discovery
Chenhao Ma, Yixiang Fang, Reynold Cheng, Laks V.S. Lakshmanan, Wenjie Zhang, Xuemin Lin
In SIGMOD Record, 50(1):33-40, 2021, Special Issue on the 2021 ACM SIGMOD Research Highlight Award.
PaperOn Analyzing Graphs with Motif-Paths
Xiaodong Li, Reynold Cheng, Kevin Chen Chuan Chang, Caihua Shan, Chenhao Ma, Hongtai Cao
In Proceedings of the VLDB Endowment (PVLDB), 14(6): 1111-1123, 2021.
Paper
Efficient Algorithms for Densest Subgraph Discovery on Large Directed Graphs
Chenhao Ma, Yixiang Fang, Reynold Cheng, Laks V.S. Lakshmanan, Wenjie Zhang, Xuemin Lin
In Proceedings of the 2020 ACM SIGMOD International Conference on Management of Data (SIGMOD), pages 1051-1066, 2020.
One of four Best of SIGMOD 2020, rate: 4/458.
Paper
Motif Paths: A New Approach for Analysing Higher-order Semantics between Graph Nodes
Xiaodong Li, Tse Nam Chan, Reynold Cheng, Caihua Shan, Chenhao Ma, Kevin Chang
In HKU Technical Reports, 2019.LINC: A Motif Counting Algorithm for Uncertain Graphs
Chenhao Ma, Reynold Cheng, Laks V.S. Lakshmanan, Tobias Grubenmann, Yixiang Fang, Xiaodong Li
In Proceedings of the VLDB Endowment (PVLDB), 13(2): 155-168, 2019.
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Professional Services
Conference PC Members (or Reviewers):
VLDB: 2025
KDD: 2024, 2025
ICDE: 2025
The Web Conference (WWW): 2024, 2025
IEEE ICDE TKDE poster track: 2023
SIGIR Resource paper track: 2023, 2024
NeurIPS Dataset & Benchmark track: 2023, 2024
ACM CIKM: 2022, 2023, 2024 (SPC),
IEEE Big Data: 2024
VLDB Phd Workshop: 2022
VLDB Tutorials: 2023, 2024
ACM SIGMOD Reproducibility, The Availability Committee: 2022, 2023
ACM WSDM Demo Track: 2023
ACM DASFAA Demo Track: 2023, 2024
APWeb-WAIM: 2024
International Conference on Data Storage and Data Engineering: 2023
Conference organizer:
Session chair, IEEE International Conference on Data Engineering (ICDE): 2023
Session chair, International Conference on Very Large Data Bases (VLDB): 2023
Journal Editorship:
Guest Editor, Applied Sciences, 2023
Guest Editor, Frontiers in Big Data, 2023
Reviewers for Journals:
IEEE Transactions on Knowledge and Data Engineering (TKDE)
The International Journal on Very Large Data Bases (VLDBJ)
ACM Transactions on the Web (TWEB)
Pattern Recognition (PR)
Knowledge and Information Systems (KAIS)
Information Sciences
Information Processing and Management (IPM)
Expert Systems With Applications (ESWA)
ACM Transactions Management Information Systems (TMIS)
IEEE Transactions on Computational Social Systems (TCSS)
International Journal of Intelligent Systems
Journal of Graph Theory
BMC Medical Informatics and Decision Making
Applied Sciences
Sustainability
Big Data and Cognitive Computing
Selected Honors and Awards
2021 ACM SIGMOD Research Highlight Award, Jun 2021
Hong Kong and China Gas Company Limited Postgradaute Scholarship, 2019-2020
One of four Best of SIGMOD 2020
Reaching Out Award, Hong Kong SAR Government, 2019
HKU Postgraduate Scholarship, 2017-2021
Gold Medal, ACM-ICPC Asia Regional Contest, Changchun, Oct 2015
National Scholarship, Nov 2014, Nov 2015
Working and Education Experience
2022.8-now: Assistant Professor, The Chinese University of Hong Kong, Shenzhen, China
2021.9-2022.8: Postdoctoral Fellow, The University of Hong Kong, Hong Kong SAR (China)
2017.9-2021.8: Ph.D., The University of Hong Kong, Hong Kong SAR (China)
2013.9-2017.7: B.Eng., Shandong University, China
Teaching Experience
CSC3170: Database System, Instructor
2024 Fall
CSC2003: Introduction to Java Programming, Instructor
2024 Spring
CSC4008: Techniques for Data Mining, Instructor
2023 Spring, 2023 Fall
CSC1003: Introduction to Computer Science and Java Programming, Instructor
2022 Fall
The Age of Big Data, 2018 Spring, Teaching Assistant
Introduction to Database Management Systems, 2018 Fall, Teaching Assistant
Advanced Database Systems, 2019 Fall, Teaching Assistant
Big Data Management, 2022 Spring, Teaching Assistant