Gao Cong   (丛 高)                                                                                                                                  Block N4, 2c-103 College of Computing and Data Science Nanyang Technological University   Email    gaocong at ntu.edu.sg

Short Biography

2018 -- present: Professor, College of Computing and Data Science (CCDS), Nanyang Technological University, Singapore. Affiliated to the Data Management Research Group (DANTE)
2015 -- 2018: Associate Professor, Nanyang Technological University, Singapore.
2010 -- 2015: Assistant Professor, Nanyang Technological University, Singapore.  
2008 -- 2010: Assistant Professor, Department of Computer Science, and Center for Data-intensive Systems (Daisy), Aalborg University, Denmark
2007 -- 2008: Researcher, Microsoft Research Asia
2004 -- 2006: Postdoc Research Fellow, the Database group within the School of Informatics of University of Edinburgh.
2000 -- 2004: Ph.D. student and Pre-doc,  Department of Computer Science, National University of Singapore, Singapore.
1999 -- 2000: ShenZhen Huawei Company, China
1992 -- 1999: Master and Bachelor, Tianjin University, China.
My long CV can be found here.

Research Interests

• Spatial Data Management (Spatial +X Data Systems)  (more)
• Data+AI (AI for Databases, and DB4AI)  (more)
• Spatial-temporal Data Mining and Smart City (more)
• Recommendation Systems (more) 

My past research interests:

•  Classifying gene expression data:
•  Classifying tool RCBT using top-k covering rule groups in SIGMOD05 paper is available here (Linux version), or  here  (together with several other tools for mining microarray data from my Ph.D. advisor Anthony’s group).  The datasets used in our SIGMOD05 paper are available here 
•  Mining interesting association rules and frequent patterns
• XML, Data cleaning 

Publications  (By year)

My Google Scholar Profile, my ACM author profile, and my papers @ [DBLP]

Recent Talks 

• Invited talk "Toward City Foundation Models: From Task-Specific Spatial Approaches to Urban General Intelligence" in VLDB'25 workshop, and it was invited for a perspective paper
• SIGMOD 24 Tutorial: Machine Learning for Databases: Foundations, Paradigms, and Open Problems
• Invited Keynote Talk at 5th International Conference on Spatial Data and Intelligence (SpatialDI) 2024: Geospatial entity representation: a step towards city foundation models (Slides)
• Invited Keynote Talk at 2023 Australasian Database Conference (ADC 2023): Empowering Database Systems with Machine Learning (Slides)

Main Admin Duty 

• Head, Division of Data Science, CCDS, NTU, 2024.
• Co-director for the Singtel Cognitive and Artificial Intelligence Lab for Enterprises (SCALE@NTU), 2019--2024
• Assistant Chair (Alumni and outreach), School of Computer Science and Computer Engineering, 2018--2024

Our Research Team (members)

Teaching

Professional Services

Program Committee memembers for conferences, such as SIGMOD, VLDB, ICDE, KDD, SIGSPATIAL, CIKM, etc. 

Associate editor, ACM transactions on Database Systems

Associate editor, IEEE TKDE

Tutorial track co-chair, PAKDD 2026

Tutorial track co-chair, WWW 2024

PC co-chair for ICDE'22

Workshop co-chair for CIKM'21

Associate General Chair for KDD'21

Tutorial Track co-chair, PAKDD 2020

PC co-chair for ADC'18

PC co-chair for PhD forum and posters Track of ASONAM 

PC co-chair for the 13th International Conference on Advanced Data Mining and Applications (ADMA'17)

PC vice-chair for ICDE'18

PC co-chair for E&A track of PVLDB'14

Publication chair for The 25th Pacific Asia Conference on Language Information and Computing (PACLIC), 2011