Wenlei Xie

General

I finished my Ph.D. study at Cornell University in May 2015, under the supervision of Prof. Johannes Gehrke. Other members in my Ph. D. committee include Prof. David Bindel, Dr. Alan Demers and Prof. Robert Kleinberg. I received my B.Sc. degree of Computer Science and Engineering from Fudan University in 2010.

Research Interests

I am broadly interested in data-driven computations. My current research is about iterative computation on big graph data.

Selected Publications

• Wenlei Xie, David Bindel, Alan Demers, and Johannes Gehrke
  Edge-Weighted Personalized PageRank: Breaking A Decade-Old Performance Barrier
  [Release] [Slides by Prof. Bindel] [Talk by Prof. Bindel]
  In Proc. KDD 2015. The best student paper award

• Wenlei Xie, Yuanyuan Tian, Yannis Sismanis, Andrey Balmin, and Peter J. Haas
  Dynamic Interaction Graphs with Probabilistic Edge Decay [Poster]
  In Proc. ICDE 2015.

• Wenlei Xie, Guozhang Wang, David Bindel, Alan Demers, and Johannes Gehrke
  Fast Iterative Graph Computation with Block Updates [Release] [Slides] [Poster]
  Proceedings of the VLDB Endowment (PVLDB) Vol. 6, No. 14

• Guozhang Wang, Wenlei Xie, Alan Demers, and Johannes Gehrke
  Asynchronous Large-Scale Graph Processing Made Easy [Release]
  In Proc. CIDR 2013.

• J. Yuan, Y. Zheng, C. Zhang, Wenlei Xie, X. Xie, G. Sun, and Y. Huang
  T-Drive: Driving Directions Based on Taxi Trajectories
  In Proc. GIS 2010. The best paper runner-up award

• Z. Zhang, Wenlei Xie , S. Zhou, M. Li and J. Guan
  Distinct scalings for mean first-passage time of random walks on scale-free networks with the same degree sequence
  Phys. Rev. E, 80 (2009) 061111

• Z. Zhang, Wenlei Xie , S. Zhou, S. Gao and J. Guan
  Anomalous behavior of trapping on a fractal scale-free network
  EPL(Europhysics Letters), 88 (2009) 10001

Teaching Experience

TA for CS1130 Transition to OO Programming	Fall 2010, Spring 2011
TA for CS4320 Introduction to Database Systems	Fall 2011
TA for CS4321 Practicum in Database Systems	Fall 2011
TA for CS4321 Practicum in Database Systems	Fall 2014

Internships

LinkedIn	Jun 2014 - Aug 2014	Mentor: Srinivas S Vemuri
IBM Almaden Research	Jun 2013 - Sept 2013	Mentor: Yuanyuan Tian
Google	May 2012 - Aug 2012	Mentor: Sanjay Agrawal
Microsoft Research Asia	Jan 2010 - May 2010	Mentor: Yu Zheng