Chengkai Li

Chengkai Li is an Associate Professor in the Department of Computer Science and Engineering at the University of Texas at Arlington. He received his Ph.D. in Computer Science from the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign in 2007. Chengkai's research interests are in database, data mining, web data management, and natural language processing. He is conducting research on computational journalism, crowdsourcing and human computation, data exploration by ranking (top-k), skyline and...See more

Chengkai Li is an Associate Professor in the Department of Computer Science and Engineering at the University of Texas at Arlington. He received his Ph.D. in Computer Science from the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign in 2007. Chengkai's research interests are in database, data mining, web data management, and natural language processing. He is conducting research on computational journalism, crowdsourcing and human computation, data exploration by ranking (top-k), skyline and preference queries, database testing, entity query, and usability challenges in querying graph data. Chengkai's papers have appeared in prestigious database, data mining, and web conferences (e.g., SIGMOD, VLDB, CIDR, KDD, WWW, WSDM) and journals (e.g., TODS , TKDD , TKDE ). He has served as General Co-Chair and Program Co-Chair of IEEE IPCCC, and he has also served on the organizing committee of SIGMOD. He served on the program committees of premier conferences (e.g., SIGMOD, VLDB, KDD, WWW, IJCAI). He has also been a reviewer for prestigious journals (e.g., TODS , TOIS , TKDE , VLDB Journal ). Chengkai is a recipient of the 2011 and 2012 HP Labs Innovation Research Award. See less