XIAO Xiaokui

COM1-03-25

651 61559

www.comp.nus.edu.sg/~xiaoxk

Professor
Assistant Dean, Graduate Studies

Ph.D. (Computer Science, Chinese University of Hong Kong, 2008)
M.Sc. (Computer Science, South China University of Technology, 2004)
B.Sc. (Computer Science, South China University of Technology, 2001)

Xiaokui Xiao is a Professor at the School of Computing (SoC), National University of Singapore (NUS). Prior to joining NUS, he was an Associate Professor at the School of Computer Science and Engineering, Nanyang Technological University. He obtained a PhD in Computer Science from the Chinese University of Hong Kong in 2008, and did a postdoctoral stint at the Department of Computer Science, Cornell University. Xiaokui’s research focuses on data management and analytics, especially on algorithms for large data, data privacy, and data mining. He received the 2024 ACM SIGMOD Test-of-Time Award, the 2022 ACM SIGMOD Research Highlight Award, and the VLDB 2021 Best Research Paper Award. He is an IEEE Fellow, an ACM Distinguished Member, and a trustee of the VLDB Endowment.

RESEARCH AREAS

Database

Algorithms & Theory

RESEARCH INTERESTS

Data Management
Data Analytics
Data Privacy

RESEARCH PROJECTS

RESEARCH GROUPS

TEACHING INNOVATIONS

SELECTED PUBLICATIONS

Renchi Yang, Jieming Shi, Xiaokui Xiao, Yin Yang, Juncheng Liu, Sourav S. Bhowmick: Scaling Attributed Network Embedding to Massive Graphs. Proc. VLDB Endow. 14(1): 37-49 (2020). (VLDB 2021 Best Research Paper Award and 2022 ACM SIGMOD Research Highlight Award)
Youze Tang, Xiaokui Xiao, Yanchen Shi: Influence maximization: near-optimal time complexity meets practical efficiency. SIGMOD Conference 2014: 75-86.
Jun Zhang, Graham Cormode, Cecilia M. Procopiuc, Divesh Srivastava, Xiaokui Xiao: PrivBayes: private data release via bayesian networks. SIGMOD Conference 2014: 1423-1434. (2024 ACM SIGMOD Test of Time Award)
Xiaokui Xiao, Guozhang Wang, Johannes Gehrke: Differential Privacy via Wavelet Transforms. IEEE Trans. Knowl. Data Eng. 23(8): 1200-1214 (2011). Special Section on the Best Papers of ICDE 2010.

AWARDS & HONOURS

ACM SIGMOD Test of Time Award, 2024
IEEE Fellowship, 2023
Faculty Teaching Excellence Award, conferred by the School of Computing, National University of Singapore, 2023
ACM SIGMOD Research Highlight Award, 2022
Faculty Teaching Excellence Award, conferred by the School of Computing, National University of Singapore, 2022
ACM Distinguished Membership, 2021
Best Research Paper Award, International Conference on Very Large Data Bases (VLDB), 2021
Dean's Chair, conferred by the School of Computing, National University of Singapore, 2021
1st Place, 2020 NIST Differential Privacy Temporal Map Challenge
3rd Place, 2018 NIST Differential Privacy Synthetic Data Challenge
Nanyang Education Award (School), conferred by the Nanyang Technological University, 2017
Invited Submission to the TKDE Special Issue on the Best Papers of ICDE 2015
1st Place, the ACM SIGSPATIAL CUP 2012
Most Popular Lecturer Award, conferred by the School of Computer Engineering, Nanyang Technological University, 2011
Invited Submission to the TKDE Special Issue on the Best Papers of ICDE 2010
Nanyang Assistant Professorship, conferred by the Nanyang Technological University, 2010
Young Scientist Award in Physical/Mathematical Science, conferred by the Hong Kong Institution of Science, 2009
ACM-HK Prof. Francis Chin Research Award, conferred by the ACM Hong Kong Chapter, 2009
Outstanding Thesis Award, conferred by the Faculty of Engineering, Chinese University of Hong Kong, 2009