School of Computer Science and Technology
Xidian University
HUASHAN Scholar of Xidian University
His research interests includeDr. Li obtained my B.Eng from Harbin Institute of Technology in 2005, and Ph.D from Nanyang Technological University in 2012. Under the supervision of Associate Prof. Sourav S. Bhowmick, Dr Li used to be a member of Centre of Advanced Information Systems (renamed as DISCO now) during 2007 to 2011. He is currently affiliated with School of Computer Science and Technology, Xidian University, and is the director of The Key Laboratory of Advanced Database Technology of Xi'an. His research interests includes social computing, knowledge discovery, graph mining and data privacy in big data. Many of his papers appear in major international conferences including VLDB, SIGMOD, KDD, ICDE, and journals like TKDE, VLDB J, TKDD, TIST, TDSC and etc.
He have been nominated as the Best Paper Award in ACM SIGMOD 2015!
The right cloud consists of the frequent keywords appeared in the title of my papers during 2015-2021.My DBLP entry can be found at DBLP
Oct 2024: Our study towards employing LANTERN (a system of ) within in-class database education, is accepted by SIGCSE 2025!
Sep 2024: Several works on query, DP and CC have been accepted by ICDM, DAPD and DSE, respectively.
Aug 2024: Our work on privacy-preserving CNN, has been accepted by IEEE TCC!
Jul 2024: Our brainstorming paper of database education (), is now availible in SIGMOD Record!
Mar 2024: Our work on distributed hash join in shared-nothing database, has been accepted by DASFAA 2024!
Mar 2024: Our work on online migration in distributed database, has been accepted by DASFAA 2024!
Mar 2024: Our work on encrypted database, namely "EncDB", has been accepted by DASFAA 2024!
Dec 2023: Our tutorial on Computational social science (PAELLA), namely "Social Psychology Meets Social Computing: State of the Art and Future Directions", has been accepted by The Web 2024!
Dec 2023: Collaborated with Shanghai Yunxi (a member of Inspur Group), our work on adaptive query execution engine, namely "Quartet: A Query Aware Database Adaptive Compilation Decision System", is accepted by ESWA!
Oct 2023: Our new work on Movement-aware Location Selection (MALOS), namely "CoSTUR:面向用户评级的空间文本竞争选址研究", has received our 2nd 萨师煊优秀论文奖 in NDBC (中国数据库大会) 2023!
Aug 2023: Our work on privacy-preserving star-join query processing, is accepted by SIGMOD 2024!
Feb 2023: Our work on database education system, namely "ARENA: Alternative Relational Query Plan Exploration for Database Education", is accepted by SIGMOD 2023, try our system via .
Feb 2023: Our new work on Movement-aware Location Selection (MALOS), namely "Towards Balancing the Efficiency and Effectiveness in k-Facility Relocation Problem", has been accepted by ACM TIST.
Dec 2022: One of our colloborated work on privacy preserving distributed cardinality estimation is accepted by SIGMOD 2023!
Oct-Nov 2022: Our one-stop DB learning platform, namely , has been updated, a pair of new systems, MOCHA and ARENA, are online!!
Oct 2022: Our vision paper on Technology-Enabled Learning of Relational Query Processing, has been published in IEEE Data Eng. Bull.! (Check for more information)
Sep 2022: Our new work on privacy-preserving CNN training is accepted by ISC 2022!
Aug 2022: We have two full papers (respectively working on privacy-preserving query processing and CNN inferencing) and one demo (a subsystem of ) accepted by CIKM 2022!
Jul 2022: Our one-stop DB learning platform, namely , has been updated, a series of new RDBMSs are now supported!!
Apr 2022: Our new work on learning-bases influence maximization over social network (a work of project PAELLA) has been accepted by IEEE Transactions on Computational Social Systems!
Mar 2022: Our new work on fuzzy differential privacy theory has been accepted by IEEE Transactions on Fuzzy Systems!
Feb 2022: Our work on database education system, namely "LANTERN: Boredom-conscious Natural Language Description Generation of Query Execution Plans for Database Education", is accepted by SIGMOD 2022, try our system via .
Nov 2021: Our new work on influence maximization over social network has been accepted by WSDM 2022!
Aug 2021: Our new work on Movement-aware Location Selection (MALOS), the first approximate solution towards k facility relocation problem, has been accepted by CIKM 2021!
Aug 2021: Our SaDes system, a semantic-free sensitivity quantification and adaptive desensitization system, has been accepted by CIKM 2021!
Feb 2021: Our work on community hiding in social network, namely "Community Hiding by Link Perturbation in Social Networks", is accepted by IEEE Transactions on Computational Social Systems!
Jan 2021: Our work on query execution plan interpretation, namely "Towards Enhancing Database Education: Natural Language Generation Meets Query Execution Plans", is accepted by SIGMOD 2021!
Dec 2020: Our work on query expansion, namely "SQE-GAN: a Supervised Query Expansion Scheme via GAN", is accepted by ECIR 2021!
Dec 2020: Our work on dimensionality reduction, namely "3E-LDA: Three Enhancements to Linear Discriminant Analysis", is accepted by ACM TKDD!
Aug-Sep 2020: A pair of our papers on Movement-aware Location Selection (MALOS), have been accepted by NDBC 2020 and DAPD!
May 2020: A pair of our papers on privacy-aware data management, have been accepted by APWeb-WAIM 2020!
Apr 2020: Our work on stream data clustering, namely "ESA-Stream: Efficient Self-Adaptive Online Data Stream Clustering", is accepted by IEEE TKDE!
Mar 2020: Our work on conformity-aware information diffusion, namely "CHASSIS: Conformity Meets Online Information Diffusion", is accepted by SIGMOD 2020!
Feb 2020: Our work on verifiable database query, namely "Publicly Verifiable Databases with All Efficient Updating Operations", is accepted by IEEE TKDE!
Feb 2020: Our work on privacy-preserving skyline query, namely "SCALE: An Efficient Framework for Secure Dynamic Skyline Query Processing in the Cloud", is accepted by DASFAA 2020!
Feb 2020: Our work on forward-secure range query, namely "LS-RQ: A lightweight and forward-secure range query on geographically encrypted data", is accepted by IEEE TDSC!
Feb 2020: Our work on privacy-preserving publication of social networks, namely "Target Privacy Preserving for Social Networks", is accepted by ICDE 2020!
Jan 2020: Our work on information diffusion in social networks, namely "BRUNCH: Branching Structure Inference of Hybrid Multivariate Hawkes Processes with Application to Social Media", is accepted by PAKDD 2020!
Dec 2019: Our demo on Movement-aware Location Selection (MALOS), namely "MALOS: A Movement-Aware Location Selection System", is accepted by EDBT 2020! The demo will be sooner availible in MALOS homepage.
Jul-Nov 2019: Our work on serial episode frequency evaluation, namely ONCE and ONCESpark, have been accepted by Information Sciences and Future Generation Computer Systems, respectively. The code and dataset are availible at ONCE and ONCESpark, respectively.
Sep 2019: Our another work on Movement-aware Location Selection (MALOS), namely "FROST: Movement History-conscious Facility Relocation", has been accepted by ACM TIST.
Jun 2019: Our another work on Movement-aware Location Selection (MALOS), namely "k-Collective Influential Facility Placement over Moving Object", is awarded the Best Paper Award Runner-Up in IEEE International Conference on Mobile Data Management, MDM 2019! The code and dataset are availible at kCollectiveFP.
Feb 2019: We've got the First Prize Award for Excellent Achievements in Scientific Research in Institutions of Higher Education, Shaanxi Province!
Nov-Dec 2018: We have three papers (working on Dimensionality Reduction, Differential Privacy and Influence Maximization) sequentially accepted by Multimedia Tools and Applications, Distributed and Parallel Databases and Complexity, respectively.
Oct 2018: One of our work on LSH has been awarded Best Student Paper Award and Best Paper Nomination Award in NDBC 2018!
Jul 2018: Dr. Hui Li is exceptionally (unique within the University during 2018) promoted to full Professor!
Jun 2018: Our another work on Movement-aware Location Selection (MALOS), namely "Place Your Next Branch with MILE-RUN: Min-dist Location Selection over User Movement", has been accepted by Information Sciences!
Oct 2017: Our work on "Community Identification in LBSN via Mobility Pattern" has been accepted by Information Sciences!
August 2017: Our work on "Secure High-dimensional kNN Query" has been accepted by IEEE Trans. on Big Data!
July 2017: Dr. Li have been promoted to PhD supervisor!
March 2017: QinCloudDB ver. 1.0a/1.0b are released! Ready for trial!
AI4DB Education The cutting-edge solutions for Query Optimization Education.
PAELLA Computational social science and influence maximization.
MALOS A movement-aware location selection framework in different scenarios.
Obsoleted QinCloudDBFully-encreypted Database Systems (v0.1-v1.0).
EncDB/Enc2DBFully-encreypted Database Systems (v2.0).
Name | Degree | Year of Graduate | First Employment | Publication (as a student) | Notes |
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Yingfan Liu | Master | 2014 | Ph.D in CUHK | VLDB'14 | Co-supervised with Prof. Cui |
Miaomiao Cui | Master | 2015 | Alibaba | Neurocomp. 16 | Co-supervised with Prof. Cui |
Xiaobin Lin | Master | 2016 | Meituan Group | BigData'16 | Co-supervised with Prof. Cui |
Yanguo Peng | Doctor | 2016 | Xidian University | Inf. Sci. 17, Sci. China Info. Sci. 17 | Co-supervised with Prof. Cui |
Jingjing Li | Bachelor | 2017 | Ph.D in CUHK | Inf. Sci. 19 | |
Wenzhuo Xue | Master | 2018 | Huawei | IEEE Tran. BigData 18 | Co-supervised with Prof. Cui |
Meng Wang | Doctor | 2018 | Xi'an Polytechnic University | TKDE 16, ICDE'17, Inf. Sci. 18, TIST 20 | Co-supervised with Prof. Cui |
Sizhe Peng | Master | 2019 | Hikvision | Inf. Sci. 19 | |
Xue Meng | Master | 2019 | Transwrap | DAPD 19, APWEB'20 | |
Chia Emmanuel Tungom | Master | 2019 | Ph.D in SZU | FGCS 19 | |
Changsheng Sun | Bachelor | 2019 | Ph.D in NUS | IEEE Trans. CSS 22 | |
Weiguo Wang | Master | 2020 | Alibaba | 密码学报 19, DASFAA'20, SIGMOD'21 | Outstanding thesis (Univ.) |
Susu Yang | Master | 2020 | Huawei | Complexity 18 | |
Dan Li | Master | 2020 | Bank of China | MDM'19 | Best Paper Runner-up Award in MDM'19 |
Li Wang | Master | 2020 | Huawei | 4 patents! | |
Di Yang | Master | 2020 | Huawei | EDBT'20 | |
Shiwen Yu | Master | 2021 | Meituan Group | 密码学报 20 | |
Tianle Fu | Master | 2021 | Taikang Group | ECIR'21 | |
Zheng Gong | Master | 2021 | Ph.D in PolyU HK | WAIM'20, CIKM'21 | |
Mengting Xu | Master | 2021 | Agr. Bank of China | IEEE Trans. CSS 22 | Outstanding thesis (Univ.) |
Kechun Zhao | Master | 2021 | Baidu | WAIM'20, CIKM'21 | |
Zhe Li | Master | 2021 | Hikvision | FGCS 20 | |
Yiming Si | Master | 2022 | Ant Group | 2 patents | |
Zheng Li | Master | 2022 | Baidu | 2 patents and 1 paper (submitted) | |
Peng Chen | Master | 2022 | Huawei | SIGMOD'21、'22, DASFAA'20 | Outstanding thesis (Univ.) |
Qi Tian | Master | 2022 | State Grid, Jibei | ECIR'21 | |
Ying Zhou | Master | 2022 | Hikvision | DAPD 21 | |
Qiting Yang | Master | 2022 | Agr. Bank of China | WSDM'22 | |
Hu Wang | Master | 2023 | China CITIC Bank | CIKM'22, TIST 23, SIGMOD'23 | Outstanding thesis (Univ.) |
Yan Fu | Master | 2023 | Bank of Communications | 3 patents and 1 paper (submitted) | |
Jinxin Yang | Master | 2023 | CSC | DASFAA'24 and 2 patents | |
Yiqi Song | Master | 2023 | PetroChina | 1 patent and 1 paper (submitted) | |
Chang Liu | Master | 2023 | Agr. Bank of China | 2 patents | |
Ying Rong | Master | 2023 | Huawei | CIKM'22 | |
Hua Tong | Master | 2024 | Bank of Communications | 1 paper submitted | |
Zhilin Zeng | Master | 2024 | CETC | DASFAA'24 | Outstanding thesis (Univ.) |
Bohan Wang | Master | 2024 | Honor | 1 patent | |
Hang Zu | Master | 2024 | StateGrid | 1 paper submitted | |
Yang Guo | Master | 2024 | Huawei | Hangzhou Institute of XD | |
Yuyan Liu | Master | 2024 | SIFANG | Guangzhou Institute of XD |