Scholar
Chen Li
Google Scholar ID: BRMbGhgAAAAJ
Professor of Computer Science, UC Irvine
Citations & Impact
Citations
3,626
H-index
30
i10-index
86
Publications
20
Co-authors
40
list available
Publications
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Resume (English only)
Academic Achievements
- Recipient of the NSF CAREER Award
- Multiple test-of-time publication awards
- ACM Distinguished Member
- IEEE Fellow
- Treasurer and Board Member of the VLDB Endowment since January 2020
- PC Co-Chair of VLDB 2015
- General Chair of ICDE 2023
- General Co-Chair of SIGMOD 2027
- Served on program committees or editorial roles for top-tier conferences including SIGMOD, VLDB, and ICDE
- Associate Editor for IEEE TKDE (2018–2022)
- Texera codebase officially donated to the Apache Software Foundation in 2025
- Supervised PhD student Yicong Huang’s thesis titled 'UDF-Centric Dataflow Systems for Supporting User-defined Functions in Collaborative and Interactive Data Science, AI, and ML'
- Student Yicong Huang received the UC Irvine 2025 Most Promising Future Faculty Award
Research Experience
- Co-Principal Investigator (co-PI) of the Apache AsterixDB project
- Leading the development of the Texera open-source system since 2016 to support cloud-based collaborative data science, AI, and ML via workflows
- Part-time visiting research scientist at Google
- Co-founder and CTO of a startup to commercialize his research
- Faculty Director of the ICS Master of Computer Science Program at UCI from July 2020 to June 2024
Background
- Professor in the Department of Computer Science at the University of California, Irvine (UCI)
- Research interests include data management, data-intensive computing, databases, query processing and optimization, machine learning-based systems, data science, search, and visualization
- Current focus is on building open-source systems for big data management, data science, and AI/ML
- PhD thesis at Stanford focused on data integration with both theoretical and practical aspects
- Recent research is strongly influenced by his experience as a visiting scientist at Google and as co-founder/CTO of a startup, emphasizing engineering and open-source system development
- Believes that 'Computer Science' should support great engineering, and building systems is essential to remain relevant in the fast-paced IT era
