Xiaohui Yu
Scholar

Xiaohui Yu

Google Scholar ID: TZ91yu8AAAAJ
Professor, York University
data managementdata miningapplied machine learningurban computingsocial media analysis
Citations & Impact
All-time
Citations
2,794
 
H-index
26
 
i10-index
51
 
Publications
20
 
Co-authors
57
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Resume (English only)
Academic Achievements
  • Research results published in top-tier venues such as SIGMOD, VLDB, ICDE, KDD, and TKDE; serves as Associate/Area Editor for TKDE, TKDD, and Information Systems; served as General Co-Chair of ACM SIGKDD 2025; paper 'Selective Cloud Offloading for Accurate and Efficient Object Detection' accepted to ICDM 2025; paper 'Approximating Gradient-Based Influence for Scalable Instruction Data Selection' accepted to CIKM 2025; paper 'Visualization-Oriented Progressive Time Series Transformation' accepted to SIGMOD 2026; Davood Dehghani successfully defended his Master's thesis in July 2025; received NSERC Alliance funding with IBM for the project 'Optimized data compression and scalable verification for efficient data migration' in May 2025.
Research Experience
  • Professor and Director at the School of Information Technology, York University; research focuses on designing ML-driven database components, developing algorithms and infrastructures for robust, adaptive, and efficient large-scale ML, and creating data preparation, valuation, and governance frameworks.
Education
  • BSc from Nanjing University, China; MPhil from the Chinese University of Hong Kong; PhD from the University of Toronto.
Background
  • Research interests: data-centric artificial intelligence, particularly how data quality, management, and representation shape the effectiveness and reliability of machine learning systems. Professional fields include Information Systems & Technology, Electrical Engineering & Computer Science, and Mathematics & Statistics.
Miscellany
  • Looking for self-motivated students to join the research group as PhD/Master's students or Post-doctoral Fellows.