Ke Yi

Professor
Department of Computer Science and Engineering
Hong Kong University of Science and Technology
Clear Water Bay, Hong Kong, China
Phone: (852) 2358 8770, Fax: (852) 2358 1477
URL: http://www.cse.ust.hk/~yike
Email: user name in url@ust.hk

EDUCATION

Duke University, Durham, NC, USA, 09/2001 - 08/2006
Ph.D. in Computer Science
Advisors: Prof. Pankaj K. Agarwal and Prof. Lars Arge
Tsinghua University, Beijing, China, 09/1997 - 07/2001
B.S. in Computer Science and Technology

PROFESSIONAL EXPERIENCE

07/2019 - present: Professor, Department of Computer Science and Engineering, Hong Kong University of Science and Technology, Hong Kong, China.
07/2012 - 06/2019: Associate Professor, Department of Computer Science and Engineering, Hong Kong University of Science and Technology, Hong Kong, China.
08/2007 - 06/2012: Assistant Professor, Associate Professor, and Professor, Department of Computer Science and Engineering, Hong Kong University of Science and Technology, Hong Kong, China.
09/2006 - 07/2007: Research Specialist, AT&T Labs - Research, Florham Park, NJ, USA.

PUBLICATIONS

INVITED TALKS

Invited talk, China Electronics and Information Conference, Ningbo, 2024.
Keynote speaker, National Database Conference of China (NDBC), Kunming, 2021.
Keynote speaker, International Symposium on Algorithms and Computation (ISAAC), online, 2020.
Keynote speaker, National Conference of Theoretical Computer Science (NCTCS), Lanzhou, 2019.
Keynote speaker, International Conference on Database Theory (ICDT), Vienna, 2018.
Invited talk, ACM Symposium on Principles of Database Systems (PODS), Chicago, 2017.
Keynote speaker, Workshop on Algorithms and Systems for MapReduce and Beyond (BeyondMR), Chicago, 2017.
Invited talk, Annual Meeting of Asian Association for Algorithms and Computation (AAAC), Taipei, 2016.
Invited talk, National Database Conference of China (NDBC), Taiyuan, 2014.

PROFESSIONAL SERVICES

Associate editorship:
- ACM Transactions on Database Systems (2015 - now)
- IEEE Transactions on Knowledge and Data Engineering (2015 - 2020)
PC chairs:
- ACM Symposium on Principles of Database Systems (PODS), 2026.
- International Conference on Database Theory (ICDT), 2021.
- Workshop on Algorithms and Systems for MapReduce and Beyond (BeyondMR), Houston, USA, 2018.
- Workshop on Massive Data Algorithmics, Aarhus, Denmark, 2016.
- International Workshop on Big Dynamic Distributed Data, Riva del Garda, Italy, 2013.
Award committees:
- PODS Test-of-Time Award Commitee, 2024.
- SIGMOD Research Highlight Award Committee, 2024.
Program committees (selected):
- SIGMOD: 2025, 2024, 2023, 2022, 2020, 2019, 2018, 2015.
- PODS: 2026 (chair), 2024, 2020, 2018, 2014, 2011.
- ICDT: 2025, 2023, 2021 (chair), 2019, 2016.
- VLDB: 2014, 2013.
- ICDE: 2022, 2019, 2015, 2014, 2012, 2011, 2009, 2008.
- SODA: 2017.
- ESA: 2012, 2007.
- WADS: 2015.
- ACM GIS: 2013, 2012, 2011.
- CIKM: 2012, 2011, 2010, 2009.
- ISAAC: 2012, 2011.
- SSTD: 2011, 2007.
- ALENEX: 2018, 2013, 2011.

SERVICES TO HKUST

Director, MSc Program in Big Data Technology, 2020 - now.
PG Coordinator, Department of Computer Science and Engineering, 2012 - 2013, 2017 - 2019.
Coach, HKUST Programming Team, 2007 - 2018.
Associate PG Coordinator, Department of Computer Science and Engineering, 2015 - 2017.
Department Representative, Engineering Education Quality Assurance Committee (E2QAC), School of Engineering, 2014 - 2016.