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Overview

Cong Yu is affiliated with Google in the United States and has contributed extensively to the fields of engineering and computer science. Their research portfolio spans multiple areas, with a particular focus on artificial intelligence and mechanics of materials. Cong Yu has also published significantly in subfields such as building and construction, computer vision and pattern recognition, and civil and structural engineering.

The scientist's recent publications reflect a diverse range of topics and venues. Notable papers include:

  • Energy evolution analysis and failure criteria for rock under different stress paths (2020), published in Acta Geotechnica
  • TURL (2020), featured in Proceedings of the VLDB Endowment
  • Charformer: Fast Character Transformers via Gradient-based Subword Tokenization (2021), available on arXiv (Cornell University)
  • TURL (2022), appearing in ACM SIGMOD Record
  • Impact of meteorological factors on high-rise office building energy consumption in Hong Kong: From a spatiotemporal perspective (2020), published in Energy and Buildings

Frequent collaborators have included the following co-authors:

  • Zaiquan Wang (11 joint works)
  • Liming Zhang (10 joint works)
  • You Wu (10 joint works)
  • Alyssa Lees (7 joint works)
  • Wei Pan (7 joint works)

Cong Yu's publication venues demonstrate a broad academic reach. The most common platforms where their work appears are:

  • arXiv (Cornell University) with 11 publications
  • Energy and Buildings with 3 publications
  • Sustainability with 3 publications
  • KSCE Journal of Civil Engineering with 3 publications
  • Proceedings of the VLDB Endowment with 2 publications

Their scholarly interests can be characterized by main fields of study:

  • Engineering (73 publications)
  • Computer Science (68 publications)

Additional subfields of research focus include:

  • Artificial Intelligence (41 publications)
  • Mechanics of Materials (21 publications)
  • Building and Construction (14 publications)
  • Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition (14 publications)
  • Civil and Structural Engineering (13 publications)

The primary topics addressed in Cong Yu's research encompass:

  • Rock Mechanics and Modeling (30 publications)
  • Topic Modeling (26 publications)
  • Landslides and related hazards (20 publications)
  • Natural Language Processing Techniques (20 publications)
  • Building Energy and Comfort Optimization (16 publications)
  • Coding theory and cryptography (12 publications)
  • Sustainable Building Design and Assessment (10 publications)

Best Publications

  • TIMBER: A native XML database

    H. V. Jagadish;S. Al-Khalifa;A. Chapman;L. V. S. Lakshmanan

  • Schema-free XQuery

    Yunyao Li;Cong Yu;H. V. Jagadish

  • Group recommendation: semantics and efficiency

    Sihem Amer-Yahia;Senjuti Basu Roy;Ashish Chawlat;Gautam Das

  • Data integration with uncertainty

    Xin Luna Dong;Alon Halevy;Cong Yu

  • Web-scale Data Integration: You can only afford to Pay As You Go

    Jayant Madhavan;Shawn R. Jeffery;Shirley Cohen;Xin (Luna) Dong

  • Automatic construction of travel itineraries using social breadcrumbs

    Munmun De Choudhury;Moran Feldman;Sihem Amer-Yahia;Nadav Golbandi

  • Making database systems usable

    H. V. Jagadish;Adriane Chapman;Aaron Elkiss;Magesh Jayapandian

  • It takes variety to make a world: diversification in recommender systems

    Cong Yu;Laks Lakshmanan;Sihem Amer-Yahia

  • Constraint-based XML query rewriting for data integration

    Cong Yu;Lucian Popa

  • Finding related tables

    Anish Das Sarma;Lujun Fang;Nitin Gupta;Alon Halevy

  • Toward computational fact-checking

    You Wu;Pankaj K. Agarwal;Chengkai Li;Jun Yang

  • Semantic adaptation of schema mappings when schemas evolve

    Cong Yu;Lucian Popa

  • Schema summarization

    Cong Yu;H. V. Jagadish

  • Michigan Molecular Interactions (MiMI): putting the jigsaw puzzle together

    Magesh Jayapandian;Adriane Chapman;V. Glenn Tarcea;Cong Yu

  • Querying structured text in an XML database

    Shurug Al-Khalifa;Cong Yu;H. V. Jagadish

  • REX: explaining relationships between entity pairs

    Lujun Fang;Anish Das Sarma;Cong Yu;Philip Bohannon

  • XML schema refinement through redundancy detection and normalization

    Cong Yu;H. V. Jagadish

  • Recommendation System Using Social Behavior Analysis and Vocabulary Taxonomies

    Sihem Amer-Yahia;Alban Galland;Ramana Yerneni;Cong Yu

  • Interactive itinerary planning

    Senjuti Basu Roy;Gautam Das;Sihem Amer-Yahia;Cong Yu

  • Dynamic relationship and event discovery

    Anish Das Sarma;Alpa Jain;Cong Yu

  • Computational Journalism: A Call to Arms to Database Researchers

    Sarah Cohen;Chengkai Li;Jun Yang;Cong Yu

Frequent Co-Authors

Sihem Amer-Yahia
Sihem Amer-Yahia Grenoble Alpes University
Hosagrahar V. Jagadish
Hosagrahar V. Jagadish University of Michigan–Ann Arbor
Gautam Das
Gautam Das The University of Texas at Arlington
Jun Yang
Jun Yang Duke University
Alon Halevy
Alon Halevy Facebook (United States)
Flip Korn
Flip Korn Google (United States)
Jayant Madhavan
Jayant Madhavan Google (United States)
Laks V. S. Lakshmanan
Laks V. S. Lakshmanan University of British Columbia
Anish Das Sarma
Anish Das Sarma Google (United States)
Pankaj K. Agarwal
Pankaj K. Agarwal Duke University

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