Xiaoli Li, PhD  Department Head (Machine Intellection department)  Institute for Infocomm Research  1 Fusionopolis Way #21-01 Connexis, Singapore 138632  Email: xlli@i2r.a-star.edu.sg  Tel: 65 64082167; Fax: 65 67761378  Dr Li's I2R Website  Chinese Name: 李晓黎 (Li Xiaoli)  Involving at External Events

Adjunct Full Professor  School of Computer Science and Engineering  Nanyang Technological University  Nanyang Avenue, Singapore 639798  NTU Webmail  Email: xlli@ntu.edu.sg   ORCID 0000-0002-0762-6562  Scopus 35487931000

Profile

Xiaoli is currently a department head (Machine Intellection department, consisting of 130+ AI and data scientists, which is Singapore's largest AI and data science group) and a principal scientist at the Institute for Infocomm Research, A*STAR, Singapore. He also holds adjunct professor position at Nanyang Technological University (He was holding adjunct position at National University of Singapore for 6 years). He is also serving as KPMG-I2R joint lab co-director. He has been a member of ITSC (Information Technology Standards Committee) from ESG Singapore and Infocomm Media Development Authority (IMDA) since 2020.

This Machine Intellection department has made significant industry contributions by working closely with various industry partners, such as SIA, KPMG, Lam Research, GLOBALFOUNDRIES, DBS, Singtel, Mclaren, AIA, Standard Chartered Bank, NEC, and NCS etc. It also won most impact international benchmark competitions, such as IJCAI Competition (Stage 1; IJCAI is the top AI Conference in the world) in 2015, KDD Cup (Part of First Place Winning Team; KDD Cup is the best data mining competition in the world) in 2015, and GE Flight Quest Challenge in 2013.

Research: His research interests include data mining, machine learning, artificial intelligence, and bioinformatics. He has been serving as the Area Chairs/Senior PC members/workshop chairs/session chairs in the leading AI/data mining/machine learning related conferences (including KDD, ICDM, SDM, PKDD/ECML, ACML, PAKDD, WWW, IJCAI, AAAI, ACL, and CIKM), book editors (6 book editions). His papers have been cited by more than 14,000 times, with h-index 53. Some of his representative research publications include:

• Positive unlabelled based learning (more than 2000 citations, ICDM 2003 >800 citations, ICML 2002 >600 citations, IJCAI 2003 >500 citations. The term PU Learning was coined in his paper, Xiaoli Li , Bing Liu, ECML-2005).
• Time Series sensor data analytics (more than 2000 citations, he was one of the first researchers to formulate the sensor feature learning problem using deep neural networks, and his IJCAI 2005 Paper has been cited by more than 1,000 times, his deep learning based remaining useful paper has been cited by more than 500 times)
• Social/biological network mining (more than 2000 citations, won three Best Paper Awards in international conferences)
• He has published 16 top AI conference papers at AAAI and IJCAI; 17 top NLP/text analytics conferences at ACL, EMNLP and NAACL; 15 top data mining conferences papers at KDD, WSDM, ICDM, SDM, PKDD.

In 2005, he received Best Paper Award in the 16th International Conference on Genome Informatics (GIW 2005). In 2008, he received the Best Poster Award in the 12th Annual International Conference Research in Computational Molecular Biology (RECOMB 2008). In 2011, he received Best Paper Runner-Up Award in the 16th International Conference on Database Systems for Advanced Applications (DASFAA 2011). In 2016, he received Best Paper Awards in the International Conference on Bioinformatics (InCoB 2016). He also won two Best Performance Awards in international benchmarking competitions, i.e. bioinformatics competition DREAM 2007 USA, EU activity recognition challenge 2011. In 2020, he received Best Paper Award Runner-Up in the top Web Analytics conference, i.e. 13th ACM International WSDM Conference (WSDM 2020), as well as received Finalist Academic Paper Award in The IEEE International Conference on Prognostics and Health Management (ICPHM 2020).

Xiaoli has published more than 270 peer-reviewed papers, including top tier Data Mining, Machine Learning, Artificial Intelligence, Information Retrieval conferences, such as KDD, ICDM, SDM, PKDD/ECML, PAKDD, ICDE, ICML, IJCAI, AAAI, CVPR, ACL, EMNLP, SIGIR, CIKM, UbiCom etc, as well as some top tier journals such as IEEE Transactions on Knowledge and Data Engineering, IEEE Transactions on Industrial Electronics, IEEE Transactions on Industrial Informatics, IEEE Transactions on Instrumentation & Measurement, IEEE Transactions On Emerging Topics In Computational Intelligence, IEEE Transactions on Neural Systems & Rehabilitation Engineering, IEEE Transactions on Industrial Electronics, IEEE/ACM Transactions on Computational Biology and Bioinformatics, IEEE Transactions on Big Data, IEEE Transactions on Reliability. Some impact bioinformatics papers published in PLOS Computational Biology, Bioinformatics, BMC Genomics, PLOS ONE, BMC Bioinformatics, Annals of the New York Academy of Sciences, Journal of Computational Biology, as well as some top bioinformatics conferences such as ISMB/ECCB, CSB etc.

Industry Applications: Xiaoli has rich industry experience in managing research teams to address real-world applications. He has led over 10 R&D projects in collaboration with the industry partners across different verticals, e.g. leading aerospace companies, telecom companies, insurance companies, airlines etc.

Research Interests

• Artificial Intelligence,
• Data Analytics,
• Machine learning and Deep Learning,
• Bioinformatics,
• Information Retrieval

Editor Board

• Editor-in-Chief: World Scientific Annual Review of Artificial Intelligence
• Associate Editor: IEEE Transactions on Artificial Intelligence
• Associate Editor: Machine Learning with Applications (Elsevier)

• Program Committee Chairs, Workshop/Session Chairs
  • Conference Co-Chair of The 5th Asia Conference on Machine Learning and Computing, 2022.
  • Workshop Co-Chair of 1st international sustainable ai workshop, held in conjunction with with IEEE ICDM, 2022.
  • Session Chair on Medicine of The 26th ACM SIGKDD Conference on Knowledge Discovery and Data Mining (KDD2021) .
  • Area Chair of The 30th International Joint Conference on Artificial Intelligence (IJCAI-21).
  • Area Chair of The IEEE International Conference on Data Mining (ICDM 2019) .
  • Area Chair of The IEEE International Conference on Data Mining (ICDM 2018) .
  • Data Challenge Chair of Conference on Information and Knowledge Management (CIKM 2017).
  • Workshop Co-Chair of ACL 2015 Workshop on Novel Computational Approaches to Keyphrase Extraction (Keyphrase 2015).
  • Program Vice-Chair of The IEEE International Conference on Cloud and Big Data (CBD 2015).
  • Industry and Sponsor Co-Chair of The 2015 IEEE/WIC/ACM International Conference on Web Intelligence (WI 2015) .
  • Session Chair on Intelligent Human-Web Interaction of The 2015 IEEE/WIC/ACM International Conference on Web Intelligence (WI 2015) .
  • Industry and Sponsor Co-Chair of The 2015 IEEE/WIC/ACM International Conference on Intelligent Agent Technology (IAT 2015).
  • Workshop Co-Chair of The 19th Pacific-Asia Conference on Knowledge Discovery and Data Mining (PAKDD 2015).
  • Application Session Chair of The 19th Pacific-Asia Conference on Knowledge Discovery and Data Mining (PAKDD 2015).
  • Demo Co-Chair of Asia-Pacific Web Conference (APWeb 2015).
  • Session Chair on Classification of The 14th IEEE International Conference on Data Mining (ICDM 2014) .
  • PC Chair of 5th International Conference on Computational Systems-Biology and Bioinformatics (CSBio2014).
  • Session Chair on Biomedical Data Mining of The 18th Pacific-Asia Conference on Knowledge Discovery and Data Mining (PAKDD 2014).
  • Session Chair on Translational Medicine of The 24th International Conference on Genome Informatics (GIW 2013) .
  • Session Chair on Sequences and Mobility of The 12th IEEE International Conference on Data Mining (ICDM 2012) .
  • Workshop Chair of Biological Data Mining and its Applications in Healthcare (ICDM 2012) .
  • Session Chair of Supervised and Semi-supervised Learning of of The 4th Asian Conference on Machine Learning (ACML 2012) .
  • Workshop Chair of Biological Data Mining and its Applications in Healthcare (ICDM 2011) .
  • Session Chairs of Social Networks (1 and 2) and Natural Language Processing (3) of The Twenty-Fifth AAAI Conference on Artificial Intelligence (AAAI 2011) .
  • Session Chair on Graph and Network Mining of The 10th IEEE International Conference on Data Mining (ICDM 2010) .
  • Workshop Chair of Biological Data Mining and its Applications in Healthcare (ICDM 2010) .
  • Local Organising Chair of The The 2nd International Conference on Biomedical and Pharmaceutical Engineering (ICBPE 2010).
  • Session Chair on Text Mining/Unlabeled Data of The 18th European Conference on Machine Learning (ECML2007) and the 11th European Conference on Principles and Practice of Knowledge Discovery in Databases (PKDD2007) .

• Program Committee Memberships
  • Senior Program Committee Member of 31st International Joint Conference on Artificial Intelligence (IJCAI-ECAI 22) .
  • Senior Program Committee Member of The 26th ACM SIGKDD Conference on Knowledge Discovery and Data Mining (KDD2021) .
  • Program Committee Member of The 24th ACM SIGKDD Conference on Knowledge Discovery and Data Mining (KDD2019) .
  • Senior Program Committee Member of The 33nd AAAI Conference on Artificial Intelligence (AAAI 2019) .
  • Senior Program Committee Member of The 27th International Joint Conference on Artificial Intelligence (IJCAI 2018) .
  • Program Committee Member of The 23th ACM SIGKDD Conference on Knowledge Discovery and Data Mining (KDD2018) .
  • Program Committee Member of The 15th AAAI Conference on Artificial Intelligence (AAAI 2018) .
  • Program Committee Member of The 27th ACM International Conference on Information and Knowledge Management (CIKM 2018 ) .
  • Program Committee Member of The 56th annual meeting of the Association for Computational Linguistics (ACL 2018) .
  • Program Committee Member of The 16th Annual Conference of the North American Chapter of the Association for Computational Linguistics - Human Language Technologies(NAACL-HLT 2018) .
  • Program Committee Member of The 22th ACM SIGKDD Conference on Knowledge Discovery and Data Mining (KDD2017) .
  • Program Committee Member of The 14th AAAI Conference on Artificial Intelligence (AAAI 2017) .
  • Program Committee Member of The 55th annual meeting of the Association for Computational Linguistics (ACL 2017) .
  • Program Committee Member of The ACM Fifteenth Conference on Information and Knowledge Management (CIKM 2017) .
  • Program Committee Member of The 22th ACM SIGKDD Conference on Knowledge Discovery and Data Mining (KDD2016) .
  • Program Committee Member of The 25th International Joint Conference on Artificial Intelligence (IJCAI2016) .
  • Program Committee Member of The 15th Annual Conference of the North American Chapter of the Association for Computational Linguistics - Human Language Technologies(NAACL-HLT 2016) .
  • Program Committee Member of The Thirtieth AAAI Conference on Artificial Intelligence (AAAI 2016) .
  • Program Committee Member of The 20th Pacific-Asia Conference on Knowledge Discovery and Data Mining (PAKDD 2016) .
  • Program Committee Member of 21th ACM SIGKDD Conference on Knowledge Discovery and Data Mining (KDD2015) .
  • Program Committee Member of 2015 IEEE International Conference on Data Mining (ICDM2015) .
  • Program Committee Member of The 19th Pacific-Asia Conference on Knowledge Discovery and Data Mining (PAKDD 2015) .
  • Program Committee Member of GIW/InCoB2015 .
  • Program Committee Member of IEEE International Conference on Bioinformatics and Biomedicine (BIBM 2015) .
  • Program Committee Member of International Conference for Smart Health (ICSH 2015) .
  • Program Committee Member of 20th ACM SIGKDD Conference on Knowledge Discovery and Data Mining (KDD2014) .
  • Program Committee Member of The 23th International World Wide Web Conference (WWW2014) .
  • Program Committee Member of The 18th Pacific-Asia Conference on Knowledge Discovery and Data Mining (PAKDD 2014) .
  • Program Committee Member of The 2009 IEEE International Conference on Granular Computing (IEEE GrC 2014) .
  • Program Committee Member of 12th International Conference on Bioinformatics (InCoB2014) .
  • Program Committee Member of the ACM International Conference On Bioinformatics and Computational Biology (BCB 2014) .
  • Program Committee Member of IEEE International Conference on Bioinformatics and Biomedicine (BIBM 2014) .
  • Program Committee Member of The 19th ACM SIGKDD Conference on Knowledge Discovery and Data Mining (KDD 2013).
  • Program Committee Member of The 22th International World Wide Web Conference (WWW2013) .
  • Program Committee Member of The IEEE International Conference on Data Mining series (ICDM 2013) .
  • Program Committee Member of The 13th SIAM International Conference on Data Mining (SDM 2013) .
  • Program Committee Member of The 17th Pacific-Asia Conference on Knowledge Discovery and Data Mining (PAKDD 2013) .
  • Program Committee Member of The 14th International Conference on Web-Age Information Management (WAIM2013) .
  • Program Committee Member of The 2013 International Conference on Big Data (BigData2013) .
  • Program Committee Member of 12th International Conference on Bioinformatics (InCoB2013) .
  • Program Committee Member of IEEE International Conference on Bioinformatics and Biomedicine (BIBM 2013) .
  • Program Committee Member of the International Conference on Knowledge Discovery and Information Retrieval (KDIR 2013) .
  • Program Committee Member of the Tenth International Meeting on Computational Intelligence Methods for Bioinformatics and Biostatistics (CIBB 2013) and Eighth IAPR International Conference on Pattern Recognition in Bioinformatics (PRIB 2013) .
  • Program Committee Member of The International Conference on Bioinformatics Models, Methods and Algorithms (BIOINFORMATICS 2013).
  • Program Committee Member of The Twenty-Sixth AAAI Conference on Artificial Intelligence (AAAI 2012) .
  • Program Committee Member of The IEEE International Conference on Data Mining series (ICDM 2012) .
  • Program Committee Member of The European Conference on Machine Learning and Principles and Practice of Knowledge Discovery in Databases (ECML-PKDD 2012) .
  • Program Committee Member of The 4th Asian Conference on Machine Learning (ACML 2012) .
  • Program Committee Member of the ACM International Conference On Bioinformatics and Computational Biology (BCB 2012) .
  • Program Committee Member of The 2012 IEEE International Conference on Granular Computing (GrC 2012) .
  • Program Committee Member of IEEE International Conference on Bioinformatics and Biomedicine (BIBM 2012) .
  • Program Committee Member of The International Conference on Bioinformatics (InCoB 2012) .
  • Program Committee Member of The 5th International Conference on BioMedical Engineering and Informatics (BMEI 2012) .
  • Program Committee Member of The 16th Pacific-Asia Conference on Knowledge Discovery and Data Mining(PAKDD 2012) .
  • Program Committee Member of International Symposium on Network Enabled Health Informatics, Biomedicine and Bioinformatics (HI-BI-BI 2012).
  • Program Committee Member of The 3rd International Conference on Innovations in Bio-Inspired Computing and Applications(IBICA 2012).
  • Program Committee Member of The 15th IEEE International Conference on Computational Science and Engineering (CSE 2012).
  • Program Committee Member of Complex Networks 2012 Workshop on Complex Networks and their Applications.
  • Program Committee Member of The Twenty-Fifth AAAI Conference on Artificial Intelligence (AAAI 2011) .
  • Program Committee Member of The IEEE International Conference on Data Mining series (ICDM 2011) .
  • Program Committee Member of The 3rd Asian Conference on Machine Learning (ACML2011) .
  • Program Committee Member of the ACM International Conference On Bioinformatics and Computational Biology (BCB 2011) .
  • Program Committee Member of IEEE International Conference on Bioinformatics and Biomedicine (BIBM 2011) .
  • Program Committee Member of IEEE International Conference on Granular Computing (GrC 2011) .
  • Program Committee Member of The IEEE International Conference on Data Mining series (ICDM 2010) .
  • Program Committee Member of The 2nd Asian Conference on Machine Learning (ACML2010).
  • Program Committee Member of the ACM International Conference On Bioinformatics and Computational Biology (BCB 2010) .
  • Program Committee Member of IEEE International Conference on Bioinformatics and Biomedicine (BIBM 2010) .
  • Program Committee Member of IEEE International Conference on Granular Computing (GrC 2010) .
  • Program Committee Member of International Conference on Bio-Science and Bio-Technology (BSBT 2010) .
  • Program Committee Member of IEEE - Prognostics & System Health Management Conference 2010 (PHM-2010).
  • Program Committee Member of The International Conference on Bioinformatics (BIOINFORMATICS 2010) .
  • Program Committee Member of The IEEE International Conference on Data Mining series (ICDM 2009) .
  • Program Committee Member of The 1st Asian Conference on Machine Learning (ACML 2009) .
  • Program Committee Member of The IEEE International Conference on Bioinformatics & Biomedicine (BIBM 2009) .
  • Program Committee Member of The 2009 IEEE International Conference on Granular Computing (IEEE GrC 2009) .
  • Program Committee Member of The 5th International Conference on Advanced Data Mining and Applications (ADMA2009) .
  • Program Committee Member of The International Conference on Machine Learning and Cybernetics (ICMLC2009) .
  • Program Committee Member of The International Joint Conference on Bioinformatics, Systems Biology and Intelligent Computing (IJCBS 2009) .
  • Program Committee Member of The 2009 International Conference on Bio-Science and Bio-Technology (BSBT 2009) .
  • Program Committee Member of The Complex Networks in Information & Knowledge Management (CNIKM 2009) .
  • Program Committee Member of The Fourtheenth ACM SIGKDD International Conference on Knowledge Discovery & Data Mining (KDD 2008) .
  • Program Committee Member of IEEE International Conference on Bioinformatics and BioEngineering (BIBE2008).
  • Program Committee Member of IEEE International Conference on Bioinformatics and Biomedicine Philadelphia (BIBM2008).
  • Program Committee Member of The IEEE International Conference on Machine Learning and Cybernetics (ICMLC2008) .
  • Program Committee Member of The 2008 International Conference on Bioinformatics & Computational Biology (BIOCOMP 2008) .
  • Program Committee Member of The 2008 International Conference on Artificial Intelligence (ICAI 2008) .
  • Program Committee Member of The International Conference on Bio-Science and Bio-Technology (BSBT 2008) .
  • Program Committee Member of 1st International Workshop on Optimal Data Mining in Gene Expression Analysis (ODGEA’2008)
  • Program Committee Member of The Seventh SIAM International Conference on Data Mining (SDM 2007) .
  • Program Committee Member of The 2007 IEEE International Conference on BioInformatics and BioMedicine (BIBM 2007) .
  • Program Committee Member of The 2007 International Conference on Artificial Intelligence (ICAI'07) .
  • Program Committee Member of The 2007 International Conference on Bioinformatics and Computational Biology (BIOCOMP'07).
  • Program Committee Member of The IEEE International Conference on Machine Learning and Cybernetics (ICMLC2007) .
  • Program Committee Member for Poster of The 18th International Conference on Genome Informatics (GIW 2007).
  • Program Committee Member of The ACM Fifteenth Conference on Information and Knowledge Management (CIKM 2006) .
  • Program Committee Member of The 2006 International Conference on Bioinformatics and Computational Biology (BIOCOMP'06).
  • Program Committee Member of The Second International Conference on Advanced Data Mining and Applications (ADMA'06) .
  • Program Committee Member of The HLT/EMNLP 2005 Interactive Demonstrations Proceedings.

• Recent Research Grants
  • PI of Self-Aware Continuous Learning Models, AISG, 2022 - 2025
  • Co-PI of Industrial Internet-of-Things, IAF PP, 2018-2021
  • Co-PI of Integrated Photonics Based Gas Sensor, IAF PP, 2018-2021
  • PI of An on-line process monitoring scheme to improve accuracy of the tube boiler inspection process, EMA/Sembcorp, 2016 - 2018

• Journal Paper Reviewing
  • IEEE Transactions on Knowledge and Data Engineering (TKDE)
  • IEEE Transactions on Systems, Man, and Cybernetics
  • IEEE Transactions on Cybernetics
  • ACM Transactions on Knowledge Discovery in Data
  • SIGKDD Explorations
  • Bioinformatics Journal
  • BMC Journal of Bioinformatics
  • International Journal of Data Mining and Bioinformatics (IJDMB)
  • Knowledge and Information Systems (KAIS)
  • Computational Intelligence
  • Pattern Recognition

Professional Memberships

• Senior Member, Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers (IEEE). xlli@ieee.org
• Member, Association for Computing Machinery (ACM). Email: xiaolili@acm.org
• Member, ACM Special Interest Group on Knowledge Discovery in Data and Data Mining (SIGKDD).

Research Projects and Systems

• Advanced Deep Learning
• Advancd data analytics
• Tranfer learning and domain adaptation
• Imbalanced learning
• Representation learning
• Network analysis
• Biomedical analytics
• Deep learning and it applications on heathcare
• Deep learning and it applications on Advanced Manufacturing
• Learning from Positive and Unlabeled Examples (Published papers in ICML-02, IJCAI-03, ICDM-03, AAAI-04, ECML-05, IJCAI-07, ECML-07), Download our system
• LPU system - LPU
• Spy-EM (S-EM) system - S-EM

Awards

• Paper HyperML: A Boosting Metric Learning Approach in Hyperbolic Space for Recommender Systems has been selected as the BEST PAPER AWARD Runner-Up of The 13th ACM International WSDM Conference (WSDM 2020)
• Paper Adversarial Transfer Learning for Machine Remaining Useful Life Prediction has been selected as the Finalist Academic Paper Award of The IEEE International Conference on Prognostics and Health Management (ICPHM 2020)
• Paper Drug-target interaction prediction via class imbalance-aware ensemble learning has been selected as the BEST PAPER AWARD of the International Conference on Bioinformatics 2016
• Paper "Network Motif Discovery: A GPU Approach was invited to the TKDE special issue on the Best Papers of ICDE of The 31st IEEE International Conference on Data Engineering 2015
• Paper ECODE: Event-Based Community Detection from Social Networks has been selected as the Best Paper Runner-Up Award of the 16th International Conference on Database Systems for Advanced Applications (DASFAA 2011), Hong Kong
• Champions of Opportunity Activity Recognition Challenge (Conducted by EU Consortium), Task B1: Automatic Activity Data Segmentation and Task B2: Multimodal activity recognition: Gestures, 2011.
• Poster Mining for domain dependency sets from protein interactions has been selected as the Best POSTER of the 12th Annual International Conference Research in Computational Molecular Biology (RECOMB 2008), Singapore.
• Research A Probabilistic Graph-theoretic Approach to Integrate Multiple Predictions has been selected as Best Performance Award of the Protein-Protein Subnetwork Challenge, the 2nd Dialogue for Reverse Engineering Assessments and Methods (DREAM 2007), USA
• Paper Interaction Graph Mining for Protein Complexes Using Local Clique Merging has been selected as the Best PAPER of the 16th International Conference on Genome Informatics (GIW 2005), Japan