Professional Activities

Invited Talks, Tutorials, Keynote Speeches

[2025.5.18] Entity Matching in Low-Resource Contexts, Invited Talk, Greece-HK Database Workshop 2025, Hong Kong SAR, China
[2024.7.6] You Are Where You Go? Privacy Concerns of Trajectory Data, Invited Talk, ACM Turing Award Celebration Conference (TURC 2024) SIGMOD China Symposium, Changsha, China
[2024.5.21] AI Data Governance: A Study of AI Data Security and Privacy Protection, Invited Talk, Huawei Strategy and Technology Workshop (STW 2024), Shenzhen, China
[2023.12.12] Entity Matching in Practice: Opportunities and Challenges, Invited Talk, Fudan University, Shanghai, China
[2023.10.26] Towards Practical Knowledge Graph Alignment, Invited Talk, Renmin University of China, Beijing, China
[2022.11.25] Knowledge Graph Construction and Fusion, Invited Talk, Nanjing University, Nanjing, China
[2021.12.22] Knowledge Graph Construction and Fusion: Challenges and Solutions, Invited Talk, Hangzhou Dianzi University, Hangzhou, China
[2019.6.25] Towards Knowledge Harvesting from Text Corpus, Tutorial, The 4th IEEE International Conference on Data Science in Cyberspace (DSC 2019), Hangzhou, China
[2019.4.12] Knowledge Extraction from Text Corpus: Challenges and Solutions, Invited Talk, The 1st Summit Forum on Big Data Intelligence, Guangzhou, China
[2018.11.1] KGC: From Text to Knowledge Graph, Invited Talk, Soochow University, Suzhou, China
[2017.10.30] Populating Knowledge Bases with Temporal Information, Invited Talk, Nanjing University of Aeronautics and Astronautics, Nanjing, China
[2017.10.27] Temporal Knowledge Extraction from Large-Scale Text Corpus, Invited Talk, Renmin University of China, Beijing, China
[2017.10.20] TKB: Populating Knowledge Bases with Temporal Information, Tutorial, The 34th National Database Conference (NDBC 2017), Hangzhou, China
[2017.9.26] When Big Data Meets the Microgird: Challenges and Opportunities, Tutorial, The 2017 Australasian Database Conference (ADC 2017), Brisbane, Australia
[2015.11.13] Short Text Understanding: A Database Approach, Tutorial, The 14th China National Conference on Computational Linguistics (CCL 2015), Guangzhou, China
[2015.10.23] Enable Machines to Understand Internet Languages, Tutorial, The 2015 China National Computer Congress (CNCC 2015), Hefei, China
[2015.6.30] Short Text Understanding Through Lexical-Semantic Analysis, Invited Talk, Peking University, Beijing, China

Conference Organizing Committee

PhD Symposium Chair: The 42nd IEEE International Conference on Data Engineering (ICDE 2026)
Publication Chair: The 10th IEEE International Conference on Data Science in Cyberspace (DSC 2025)
Tutorial Chair: The 9th APWeb-WAIM Joint International Conference on Web and Big Data (APWeb-WAIM 2025)
Review Quality Chair: The 41st IEEE International Conference on Data Engineering (ICDE 2025)
Panel Chair: The 20th International Conference on Advanced Data Mining and Applications (ADMA 2024)
Program Committee Chair (Short Paper): The 33rd ACM International Conference on Information and Knowledge Management (CIKM 2024)
Industry Chair: The 8th APWeb-WAIM Joint International Conference on Web and Big Data (APWeb-WAIM 2024)
Program Committee Chair: The 33rd Australasian Database Conference (ADC 2022)
Track Chair: IEEE International Conference on Omni-layer Intelligent Systems (IEEE COINS 2022)
Publicity Chair: The 26th International Conference on Database Systems for Advanced Applications (DASFAA 2021)
Publication Chair: The 4th IEEE International Conference on Data Science in Cyberspace (DSC 2019)
Publicity Chair: The 20th International Conference on Web Information Systems Engineering (WISE 2021)
Publication Chair: The 22nd International Conference on Database Systems for Advanced Applications (DASFAA 2017)

Conference Program Committee

Senior Program Committee / Meta-Reviewer: CIKM 2021-2025, ADMA 2025, APWeb-WAIM 2025
Program Committee / Reviewer: EDBT 2026, NeurIPS 2025, ICDE 2019-2024, PVLDB 2020-2022, AAAI 2022-2026, CIKM 2019-2021, ISWC 2019, ICA3PP 2021, DASFAA 2018-2025, BigComp 2018-2025, BigData 2025, ADC 2018-2023

Journal Editorial Board, Invited Reviewer