Zhiming Ding is currently a professor and the director of the Research Center of Spatial-Temporal Data Management and Data Sciecne (STDMS), Institute of Software, Chinese Academy of Science (ISCAS). His main research interests include database systems, moving objects databases, spatial-temporal & IOT big data management and data intelligence. He owns 9 invention patents, and has published 4 books and about 150 papers in academic journals and conferences.


He joined ISCAS in 2004 and worked as a professor with ISCAS for more than 16 years. From 2014 to 2018, he worked as the dean of the College of Computer Science, Beijing University of Technology. In 2018, he re-joined ISCAS and established STDMS. Before joining ISCAS in 2004, he worked with FernUniversität in Hagen,  Germany (2002~2004, as research staff member with Prof. Ralf Gueting's group), SINOCHEM (1996~1998, as Senior Engineer), and Institute of Scientific & Technical Information, Ministry of Communications of China (1989~1993, as Engineer)


Zhiming Ding is the deputy chair of ACM SIGSPATIAL CHINA, and served as the chair of the Social Transportation Technical Committee, IEEE ITS Society. He also served as Associate Editor of IEEE Transactions on Intelligent Transportation Systems. He is a member of the Database Technical Committee, China Computer Federation (CCF DBTC), and of the Big Data Technical Committee, China Computer Federation (CCF BDTC).


Zhiming Ding was awarded National Silver Prize for Excellent Achievement in Science and Technology Information by the Chinese Science and Technology Committee in 1996 and Achievement Award for Beijing’s Science and Technology Progress from the Beijing municipal government in 2001 and 2020 respectively. In 2016, he received the Special government allowance of the State Council. He was entitled "Beijing distinguished professor" in 2018, and "ISCAS distinguished professor" in 2020He was also Excellent Teacher of Chinese Academy of Sciences (2012), Excellent Graduate Student Advisor of ISCAS (2014), and Excellent Educator of Beijing University of Technology (2016). 

Research Areas

Zhiming Ding’s main research interests include database and big data systems, mobile computing, spatial-temporal data management and data analysis, and information retrieval.

Education

1985~1989 Wuhan University, China (bachelor's degree)

1993~1996 Beijing University of Technology (master's degree)

1999~2002 Graduate School of Chinese Academy of Sciences (Ph.D. degree)

Experience

   
Work Experience

Zhiming Ding is currently a professor and the director of the Research Center of Spatial-Temporal Data Management and Data Sciecne (STDMS), Institute of Software, Chinese Academy of Science (ISCAS). He Joined ISCAS in 2004 as a professor. From 2014 to 2018, he worked as the dean of the College of Computer Science, Beijing University of Technology. In 2018, he re-joined ISCAS and established STDMS. He also worked with FernUniversität in Hagen,  Germany (2002~2004, as research staff member), SINOCHEM (1996~1998, as Senior Engineer), and Institute of Scientific & Technical Information, Ministry of Communications of China (1989~1993, as Engineer). 

Teaching Experience

Mobile and Spatial-Temporal Database, 2009~2014, Graduate School of Chinese Academy of Sciences;

Principle of Database Systems, 2014~2018, Beijing University of Technology;

Freshman Seminar Course, 2014~2018, Beijing University of Technology

Publications

Zhiming Ding owns 9 invention patents, and has published 4 books and about 150 papers in academic journals and conferences.


DBLP:  https://dblp.uni-trier.de/pers/hd/d/Ding:Zhiming

Research Interests

Zhiming Ding’s main research interests include database and big data systems, mobile computing, spatial-temporal data management and data analysis, and information retrieval.

Conferences

Recent Activities:

  • Local Arrangement Chair, ACM SIGSPATIAL 2020:http://idke.ruc.edu.cn/sigspatial2020/pdf/SigSpatial2020_Call%20for%20Paper.pdf
  • Publication Chair, The First International Conference on SPATIAL Data Intelligence, 2020;
  • Chair, CCF ADL 99: Spatial Big Data and Intelligence, 2019;
  • Invited Speaker by NSFC and ANR France, Europe-China Workshop on Sustainable Urbanization, 2018;
  • PC members of ICDE, DASFAA, IEEE MDM, SSDBM, ACM SIGSPATIAL, DEXA, and so forth...

Collaboration

Prof. Dr. Ralf Hartmut Güting, FernUniversitaet in Hagen, Germany;

Prof. Dr. Xiaofang Zhou, The University of Queensland, Australia;

Prof. Dr. Bin Yang, Aalborg University, Denmark

Students

Students Graduated (Selected)

李肖南  硕士研究生  081202-计算机软件与理论  

文明波  硕士研究生  081202-计算机软件与理论  

彭曲  硕士研究生  081202-计算机软件与理论  

郭黎敏  博士研究生  081202-计算机软件与理论  

诺明花  博士研究生  081202-计算机软件与理论  

何凤成  硕士研究生  081202-计算机软件与理论  

孙熙领  硕士研究生  081202-计算机软件与理论  

徐怀野  硕士研究生  081202-计算机软件与理论  

陈超  硕士研究生  081202-计算机软件与理论  

李亚光  硕士研究生  081202-计算机软件与理论  

张宏泰  硕士研究生  081202-计算机软件与理论  

高需  博士研究生  081202-计算机软件与理论  


Current Students (Selected)

姜山  博士研究生  083500-软件工程  

张久伶  博士研究生  083500-软件工程  

张帅  硕士研究生  085212-软件工程  


International Students:

Rubata Riasat, PhD. student (from Pakistan);

Jin Yan, PhD. student (from Canada);

Honors & Distinctions

Zhiming Ding was awarded National Silver Prize for Excellent Achievement in Science and Technology Information by the Chinese Science and Technology Committee in 1996 and Achievement Award for Beijing’s Science and Technology Progress by the Beijing municipal government in 2001 and 2020 respectively. In 2016, he received the Special government allowance of the State Council. He was entitled "Beijing distinguished professor" in 2018, "ISCAS distinguished professor" in 2020


He was also Excellent Teacher of Chinese Academy of Sciences (2012), Excellent Graduate Student Advisor of ISCAS (2014), and Excellent Educator of Beijing University of Technology (2016).