Apex Data & Knowledge Management Lab focuses on the research and development in the data and knowledge management area. Current interests include Next Generation Search and Retrieval (Web Search and Mining, Semantic Search, Social Search, P2P Search) and Semantic Web. We mainly use artificial intelligence techniques, including data mining and machine learning. Our goal is to help discover, represent, and manage knowledge from structure data (e.g. database), semi-structured data (e.g. XML), free text content (e.g. text files, web pages) and explicit semantic information(e.g. semantic web).
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Apex Lab currently has 63 people, including Prof. Yong Yu, Associate Prof. Gui-Rong Xue, Dr. Dingyi Han, 7 PhD candidates, 26 graduate students and 27 interns. Prof.Yu is the coach of the team that won the 2002 and 2005 ACM ICPC World Champion. Some students are members of the champion team. Many students have intern/working experiences in Microsoft Research Asia and IBM China Research Lab.
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Apex Lab is located in the Minhang campus of Shanghai Jiao Tong University, Shanghai -- the biggest metropolitan in China. Our lab has a couples of servers, including IBM RS/6000, x240, x250, x360, etc. All the work-stations are connected via 100Mbps ethernet and have 17" LCD monitors. Some experimental purpose PCs are connected via 1Gbps ethernet. The lab has its own 802.11g wireless network.