![]() |
Xiaoli Li, PhD |
Adjunct Professor Division of Information Systems |
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 (5 book editions). His papers have been cited by more than 10,000 times, with h-index 47. Some of his representative research publications include:
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 200 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, ACL, SIGIR, EMNLP, CIKM, UbiCom etc, as well as some top tier journals such as IEEE Transactions TKDE, 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.