Xin Luna Dong
Xin Luna Dong (born 1975)[1] is a Chinese-American computer scientist and database researcher whose research topics include knowledge graphs, knowledge fusion, and intelligent assistants. She is a principal scientist at Meta Reality Labs.
Education and career
[edit]Dong studied computer science and international finance at Nankai University in Tianjin, China, graduating with a bachelor's degree in 1998. After a master's degree in computer science in 2001 at Peking University, she came to the University of Washington for doctoral study in computer science, earning a second master's degree in 2003 and completing her Ph.D. in 2007.[2] Her dissertation, Providing Best Effort Services in Dataspace Systems, concerned databases and was supervised by Alon Halevy.[3]
She became a researcher for AT&T Research from 2007 to 2012, for Google from 2013 to 2016, and for Amazon from 2016 to 2021, before taking her present position at Meta in 2021.[2] Her work at Google and Amazon involved the Google Knowledge Graph and Amazon Product Knowledge Graph, respectively.[4]
Recognition
[edit]Dong was the 2016 recipient of the VLDB Early Career Award,[5] "for advancing the state of the art of knowledge fusion".[4] She is the 2023 recipient of the VLDB Women in Database Research Award.[6]
She was named an IEEE Fellow, in the 2024 class of fellows, "for contributions to knowledge graph construction and data integration".[7] She was named as an ACM Fellow, in the 2023 class of fellows, with the same citation.[8]
References
[edit]- ^ Birth year from Library of Congress catalog entry, retrieved 2023-12-12
- ^ a b Curriculum vitae (PDF), retrieved 2023-12-12
- ^ Xin Luna Dong at the Mathematics Genealogy Project
- ^ a b "Industry Leaders in Signal Processing and Machine Learning: Luna Dong", Inside Signal Processing Newsletter, IEEE Signal Processing Society, December 2021, retrieved 2023-12-12
- ^ VLDB Early Career Award, Very Large Data Bases Endowment Inc., retrieved 2023-12-12
- ^ "Conference awards", 49th International Conference on Very Large Data Bases, retrieved 2023-12-12
- ^ 2024 Fellow Class (PDF), IEEE, retrieved 2023-12-12
- ^ "Xin Luna Dong", Award recipients, Association for Computing Machinery, retrieved 2024-01-24
External links
[edit]- Home page
- Xin Luna Dong publications indexed by Google Scholar
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- 1975 births
- Living people
- Chinese computer scientists
- Chinese women computer scientists
- American computer scientists
- American women computer scientists
- Database researchers
- Nankai University alumni
- Peking University alumni
- University of Washington alumni
- Meta Platforms people
- Fellows of the IEEE
- 2023 Fellows of the Association for Computing Machinery