Query driven Exploration of Big Graphs

I would like to express my deepest gratitude to my supervisor Professor Yinghui Wu for his great support, valuable advice and constant encouragement during my PhD program. I gratefully acknowledge my PhD committee members, Professor Lawrence Holder and Professor Assefaw Gebremedhin for their comments and suggestions that have greatly improved the thesis. I acknowledge Professor Jana Doppa for advising me in machine learning research as well as my internship mentors in JD AI Research and Microsoft, Dr. Shengqi Yang and Dr. Avrilia Floratou for their valuable advice. I would like to thank my research collaborators, Qi Song, Peng Lin, Keyvan Sasani, and Xin Zhang for their expertise and help through my PhD.