Xiaofang Zhou has co-authored over 500 research papers, mostly published in top-tier conferences and journals, in spatiotemporal and multimedia databases, data mining, data quality management, high-performance query processing, big data analytics, and machine learning. He received the Best Paper Awards of WISE 2012&2013, ICDE 2015&2019, DASFAA 2016, and ADC 2019.Â