Yufei Tao

Professor Department of Computer Science and Engineering Chinese University of Hong Kong Sha Tin, New Territories Hong Kong, China Office: Room 1019, Ho Sin-Hang Engineering Building Tel: +852-39438437 Email: taoyf@cse.cuhk.edu.hk Publications (my favorite selection)

General Information

Research Interests Yufei Tao's research aims to develop "small-and-sweet" algorithms: (i) small: easy to implement for deployment in practice, and (ii) sweet: having non-trivial theoretical guarantees. He particularly enjoys working on problems that arise at the cross-intersection of databases, machine learning, and theoretical computer science. Short Bio Major Awards ACM Fellow (Awarded in 2020) SIGMOD Research Highlight Award 2018 PODS Best Paper Award 2018 Google Faculty Research Award (2016) ACM Distinguished Scientist (Awarded in 2016) SIGMOD Best Paper Award 2015 SIGMOD Best Paper Award 2013 Hong Kong Young Scientist Award 2002 Notes to Collaboration Requests I welcome healthy collaborations and take authorships very seriously. Every coauthor in my papers needs to make a substantial amount of contributions. Students are reminded that their advisors, if without major contributions, will be left out from the author list. The same applies to company collaborators concerning their supervisors.

Professional Services

Keynote Speaker of ICDT 2016. Selected Program Chairmanships (full list) PC chair of PODS 2020. PC co-chair of ICDE 2014. Selected Program Committee Memberships (full list) SIGMOD: 2007-2009, 2012, 2015, 2017 (group leader), 2018, 2019, 2022. VLDB: 2005, 2009, 2010, 2012-2015, 2017, 2018, 2020, 2021 (associate editor), 2022. PODS: 2014, 2016, 2017, 2019, 2020 (PC chair), 2022. ICDT: 2015, 2018, 2022. ICDE: 2005, 2007-2010, 2011 (area chair), 2012, 2013, 2014 (PC co-chair), 2016 (area chair), 2017, 2019-2021. KDD: 2010-2018, senior PC member 2019-2021. Associate Editorships Computer Science Review (2021-now). ACM Transactions on Database Systems (TODS) (2008-2015). IEEE Transactions on Knowledge and Data Engineering (TKDE) (2012-2014).

Teaching

Awards Dean's Exemplary Teaching Award 2019. Current CSCI5010 Computational Geometry. Past Courses at CUHK ENGG1410 Linear Algebra and Vector Calculus. CSCI2100/ESTR2102 Data Structures. BMEG3120 Database and Security for Biomedical Engineering. CSCI3160 Design and Analysis of Algorithms. CSCI5020 External Memory Data Structures. CSCI5610 Advanced Data Structures. CMSC5724 Data Mining and Knowledge Discovery. To CUHK students: I would consider writing you a recommendation letter for graduate schools only if you meet these conditions.

Graduate Supervision

I regret that there are no openings for new students currently. Ongoing Shiyuan Deng (PhD student since 2020) Hao Wu (PhD student since 2020) Shangqi Lu (PhD student since 2018) In memory of my student Yu Wang Graduated Dr. Junhao Gan (PhD 2017, now Lecturer at the Uni of Melbourne)     Winner of the Australasian Distinguished Doctoral Dissertation Award (John Makepeace Bennett Award) 2018. Dr. Xiaocheng Hu (PhD 2015, now at Google Moutain View) Dr. Cheng Sheng (PhD 2012, now at Google Switzerland) Prof. Xiaokui Xiao (PhD 2008, now Associate Professor at the National Uni of Singapore)     Winner of the Hong Kong Young Scientist Award 2009     Winner of the ACM-HK Prof. Francis Chin Research Award 2009 I also had the pleasure of working with master students Jiexing Li, Ling Ding, Xiaobing Wu, and Sze Man Yuen.