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Contact Info:
Information Research Group
School of Computer Science
Kilburn Building
The University of Manchester
Oxford Road, Manchester
M13 9PL, UK
Map & Direction: To Manchester or the Department
Email: lmao@cs.man.ac.uk ||| lukemao@gmail.com
Office phone: +44 (0) 161 275 6132
Skype: lukemao2001
Bio
I was born and raised in Beijing, China. From 1990 to 1996, I went to study at San Li He No.3 Primary School, Beijing. Thereafter, I proceeded to Beijing No.42 Middle School and stayed there until the summer of 1999. x
I have immagrated with my family to Reading, Royal Berkshire, the UK since 1999. After one year of English study at OISE in Newbury, I started my A-level in Leighton Park School, Reading.
I am currently a PhD research student at School of Computer Science, the University of Manchester. My research topic is on: Query-Centric Data Integration. My principle supervisor is Dr Alvaro A. A. Fernandes and I am co-supervised by Professor Norman Paton. In this before, I completed my MSc in Advanced Computer Science (2006 - 2007) at Manchester University and BEng in Software Engineering (2002 - 2006) at the School of Informatics, Edinburgh University.
My research is oriented towards the following areas:
- Database Systems: Query processing and refinement.
- Dataspace: Data integration; Schema mapping management; and User-driven query and mapping refinement.
- XML Data Management: XML Publishing; XML and relational schema mapping.
- Sensor Network.
Conference:
Cornelia Hedeler, Khalid Belhajjame, Norman W. Paton, Alvaro A. A. Fernandes, Suzanne M. Embury, Lu Mao, Chenjuan Guo: Pay-as-you-go Mapping Selection Dataspaces. Submitted to SIGMOD Demo. (2011) [in pdf]
Mao, L., Belhajjame, K., Paton, N.W., Fernandes, A.A.: Defining and using schematic correspondences for automatically generating schema mappings. In: CAiSE'09: Advanced Information Systems Engineering. (2009) [in pdf]
W. Mao, D.J. Clements-Croome, L. Mao, Z. Chen: A Sense Diary System for Intelligent Buildings. Clima 2007 Congress, Helsinki, Finland. [in pdf]
Book Chapters:
Alvaro A. A. Fernandes, Cornelia Hedeler, Khalid Belhajjame, Lu Mao, Chenjuan Guo, Norman W. Paton, Suzanne M. Embury: A Functional Model for Dataspace Management Systems. Springer Book in Intelligent Query Processing 2011. [in pdf]
Cornelia Hedeler, Khalid Belhajjame, Lu Mao, Norman W. Paton, Alvaro A. A. Fernandes, Chenjuan Guo, Suzanne M. Embury: Flexible Dataspace Management Through Model Management. EDBT/ICDT Workshops 2010 [in pdf]
Current:
Dataspace (Sep 2007 - Sep 2010): Summary of the project and current progress: [in pdf] and a poster: [in pdf]
Recently, [1, 2] proposed the concept of dataspace, which is a collection of loosely-coupled heterogeneous data sources. Due to the information scale and heterogeneity, schema mappings may not exist between the data sources, either because it is hard and tedious to create them, or because it is even impossible to generate precise mappings. In other words, dataspace is a data coexistence approach: it does not require the availability of semantic integration before query on the data can work. However, a dataspace provides the users with keyword searchs at first, and gradually enhance over time by improving its understanding on the relationships among the data. Defining those integration semantics gradually is termed pay-as-you-go information integration, as time and effort (pay) are needed over time (go) to provide integration semantics. The benefits are better query results (gain) that are as precise as those being extracted from fully (semantically) integrated data integration systems.
[2]: Michael Franklin, Alon Halevy, and David Maier. From databases to dataspaces: a new abstraction for information management. SIGMOD Rec., 34(4):27–33, 2005.
Past:
Summer 2007 MSc Project: Linking documents in repositories to structured data in databases [Thesis in pdf] - University of Manchester
Summer 2006 studentship: Intelligent Building - University of Reading;
2005 - 2006 Undergraduate final year project: XML Vectorisation - Database Research Group, University of Edinburgh.
Football: Manchester united + Celtic
History: Chinese dynasties
Sports: Badminton + Bowling
Cooking: Chinese cuisine (fry pork rip) + little bit Japanese (sushi) + and Korean
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