Yufei Tao

Professor and University Senate Member Dept. of Computer Science and Engineering The Chinese University of Hong Kong Office: RM 1019, Ho Sin-Hang Engineering Building Tel: +852-39438437; Email: taoyf@cse.cuhk.edu.hk Publications

General Information

Research Interests Yufei Tao's research aims to develop "small-and-sweet" algorithms: (i) small: easy to implement for deployment in practice, and (ii) sweet: having non-trivial theoretical guarantees. He particularly enjoys working on problems that arise at the cross-intersection of databases, machine learning, and theoretical computer science. Short Bio Major Awards IEEE Fellow (Class of 2024) ICDT Best Paper Award 2023 GEMS of PODS 2022 ACM Fellow (Class of 2020) PODS Best Paper Award 2018 SIGMOD Best Paper Award 2015 SIGMOD Best Paper Award 2013 Hong Kong Young Scientist Award 2002 All Research-Oriented Awards

Teaching

Awards Vice-Chancellor's Exemplary Teaching Award 2021 Dean's Exemplary Teaching Award 2018, 2021 Current CSCI5010 Practical Computational Geometry Algorithms Past Courses at CUHK ENGG1410 Linear Algebra and Vector Calculus CSCI2100 Data Structures BMEG3120 Database and Security for Biomedical Engineering CSCI3160 Design and Analysis of Algorithms CSCI5020 External Memory Data Structures CSCI5610 Advanced Data Structures CMSC5724 Data Mining and Knowledge Discovery To CUHK students: I would consider writing you a recommendation letter for graduate schools only if you meet these conditions.

Graduate Supervision

Ongoing Ru Wang (PhD student since 2021) Shiyuan Deng (PhD student since 2020) In memory of my student Yu Wang Graduated Dr. Shangqi Lu (PhD 2022, now at Huawei) Dr. Junhao Gan (PhD 2017, now Senior Lecturer at the Uni of Melbourne)     Winner of the Australasian Distinguished Doctoral Dissertation Award (John Makepeace Bennett Award) 2018. Dr. Xiaocheng Hu (PhD 2015, now at Google Mountain View) Dr. Cheng Sheng (PhD 2012, now at Google Switzerland) Prof. Xiaokui Xiao (PhD 2008, IEEE Fellow, Professor at the National Uni of Singapore)     Winner of the Hong Kong Young Scientist Award 2009     Winner of the ACM-HK Prof. Francis Chin Research Award 2009 I also had the pleasure of working with M.Phil. students Jiexing Li, Ling Ding, Xiaobing Wu, Sze Man Yuen, and Hao Wu.

Professional Services

Keynote Speaker of ICDT 2016 (full list) Program Chairmanships (full list) PC chair of PODS 2020 PC co-chair of ICDE 2014 Program Committee Memberships Associate Editorships ACM Transactions on Spatial Algorithms and Systems (TSAS) (2022-now) Computer Science Review (CSR) (2021-now) ACM Transactions on Database Systems (TODS) (2008-2015) IEEE Transactions on Knowledge and Data Engineering (TKDE) (2012-2014)