Tao Guo

Singapore · (+65) 91565142 · darkdarkgt at gmail.com

I'm currently working at Google Singapore. Prior to that, I worked in Department of Industrial Systems Engineering and Management (ISEM) at National University of Singapore (NUS) as a Research Assistant Professor. I did my PhD in Nanyang Technological University (NTU) under the supervision of Prof. Gao Cong. I was a member of Rapid-Rich Object Search Lab (ROSE) at Interdisciplinary Graduate School (IGS).

Experience

Software Engineer

Google

Build the payment solution for the next billion users

April 2019 - Present

Research Assistant Professor

Natioanal University of Singapore

Lead research projects on smart city and traffic forcast using machine learning technique

June 2018 - April 2019

Project Officer

Nanyang Technological University

Data Intensive Scalable Computing Lab.

August 2012 - August 2013

Intern Research & Development Engineer

Baidu Inc, Recommendation and Personalization Department

I worked in the Algorithm team, and my project was to filter spam items that are not suitable for recommendations.

April 2012 - May 2012

Intern Research & Development Engineer

Baidu Inc, Natural Language Processing Department

I worked in the Base team with Dr. Sun Ke to build a Knowledge Graph based on structured data. My job was to eliminate the ambiguity of heterogeneous data. Another project is to detect burst events from query log to support the search engine.

October 2011 - April 2012

Teaching Assistant & Lecturer

Harbin Institute of Technology

I was recommended to teach an elective course "Programming Practice" open to all the undergraduate students.

August 2011 - December 2011

Student Coach

Harbin Institute of Technology

I was a student coach for the ACM team’s teaching and organization work.

August 2009 - August 2011

Volunteer and technical support

The 35th ACM-ICPC Asia Regional Contest Harbin Site.

October 2010

Education

Nanyang Technological University

Ph.D.
Computer Science - Interdisciplinary Graduate School.

Supervised by Prof. Gao Cong

Thesis Title: Geospatial Data Analysis: from Querying to Visualized Exploration

August 2013 - August 2017

Harbin Institute of Technology

B.Eng.

Information Security - School of Computer Science

September 2008 - July 2012

Publications

Route-Search-by-Location over Data Streams

Lisi Chen, Shuo Shang, Hao Wang, Guo Tao

2019

Finding Attributeaware Similar Region for Data Analysis

Kaiyu Feng, Guo Tao, Cong Gao, Christian S. Jensen

2019

Densely Connected User Community and Location Cluster Search in LocationBased Social Networks

Junghoon Kim, Guo Tao, Feng Kaiyu, Cong Gao, Arijit Khan and Farhana M. Choudhury

2019

Using Deep Learning to Forecast the Maritime Vessel Flows

Cao Zhiguang, Lin Haozhi, Zhou Xiangyu, Xie Yajuan, Song Wen, Guo Tao

2019

SURGE: Continuous Detection of Bursty Regions Over a Stream of Spatial Objects

Feng Kaiyu, Guo Tao, Cong Gao, Bhowmick Sourav S. and Ma Shuai

Transactions on Knowledge and Data Engineering (TKDE)

2018

POISam: An Efficient Object Selection System for Interactive and Visualized Exploration of Geospatial Data

Tao Guo, Mingzhao Li, Peishan Li, Zhifeng Bao and Gao Cong

Proceedings of the 2018 ACM SIGMOD International Conference on Management of Data (SIGMOD 2018 demo) [Paper(New!)]

2018

SURGE: Continuous Detection of Bursty Regions over a Stream of Spatial Objects

Kaiyu Feng, Tao Guo, Gao Cong,Sourav Bhowmick and Shuai Ma

IEEE International Conference on Data Engineering (ICDE 2018 short) [Paper(New!)]

2017

Efficient Selection of Geospatial Data on Maps for Interactive Visualized Exploration

Tao Guo, Kaiyu Feng, Gao Cong, Zhifeng Bao

Proceedings of the 2018 ACM SIGMOD International Conference on Management of Data (SIGMOD 2018) [Paper(New!)]

2017

Distributed Algorithms on Exact Personalized PageRank

Tao Guo, Xin Cao, Gao Cong, Lu Jiaheng

Proceedings of the 2017 ACM SIGMOD International Conference on Management of Data (SIGMOD 2017), ACM, 2017: 479-494 [Paper] [Code] [Slides] [Poster][Talk]

2016

Efficient Processing of Spatial Group Keyword Queries

Xin Cao, Gao Cong, Tao Guo, Christian S. Jensen, Beng Chin Ooi

ACM Transactions on Database Systems (TODS), 48 pages. [Paper] [Code] [Slides]

2015

Efficient Algorithms for Answering the m-Closest Keywords Query

Tao Guo, Xin Cao, Gao Cong

Proceedings of the 2015 ACM SIGMOD International Conference on Management of Data (SIGMOD 2015), ACM, 2015: 405-418. [Paper] [Code] [Dataset] [Slides] [Poster]

2014

Awards & Academic Achievements

  • NTU Research Scholarship, 2013
  • Outstanding Graduate - Harbin Institute of Technology, 2012
  • Advanced Individual of Social Practice - Harbin Institute of Technology, 2011
  • Merit Student - Harbin Institute of Technology, 2010

Professional Activities

Programming Languages & Tools
Professional Activities

I was the Program Committee of

I was the External Reviewer of

  • SIGKDD
  • WWW
  • TKDE
  • Information Systems
  • CIKM
  • Bigdata
  • DSAA
  • SIGSPATIAL
  • SSTD

Interests

Research Interests:
  • Bigdata processing and optimization
  • Spatial data management
  • Data Exploration
  • Graph Mining
  • Query result diversification
  • Distributed system