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I am an Assistant Professor in the School of Computing at University of Utah since Aug 2011. I obtained my Ph.D in computer science from the Computer Science Department at Boston University in summer 2007, and was an Assitant Professor in the Computer Science Department at Florida State University from Aug 2007 to Aug 2011. A more detailed version about myself is here []. I am a member of the Data Group at Utah.

Research Interests

Query processing in both streaming and relational database systems. Processing, management and indexing of large-scale data in general (including distributed data management). Data processing in MapReduce. Modeling and querying probabilistic data. Data and query processing in spatio-temporal and multimedia databases. Security and privacy issues in large-scale data management. I am grateful to NSF for supporting my current research on database security issues, ranking and aggregate query processing in probabilistic data, and distributed data management system with potentially fuzzy and uncertain data.

My PhD thesis is about query and data security issues in the data outsoucing model, and you can get a copy here.

Recent Publications

• Ranking Large Temporal Data,
  by J. Jestes, J. Phillips, F. Li, M. Tang
  (To Appear) In Proceedings of 38th International Conference on Very Large Databases (VLDB 2012), pages ??-??, Istanbul, Turkey, August, 2012.
• Building Wavelet Histograms on Large Data in MapReduce,
  by J. Jestes, K. Yi, F. Li
  (To Appear) In Proceedings of 38th International Conference on Very Large Databases (VLDB 2012), pages ??-??, Istanbul, Turkey, August, 2012.
• Towards Fair Sharing of Block Storage in a Multi-tenant Cloud,
  by X. Lin, Y. Mao, F. Li, R. Ricci
  (To Appear) In Proceedings of 4th USENIX Workshop on Hot Topics in Cloud Computing (USENIX HotCloud 2012), pages TBA, Boston, MA, June 2012.
• ColumbuScout: Towards Building Local Search Engines over Large Databases,
  by C. Hansen, F. Li
  (To Appear) In Proceedings of 31st ACM SIGMOD International Conference on Management of Data (SIGMOD 2012, system demo), pages TBA, Scottsdale, Arizona, May 2012.
• Spatial Approximate String Search,
  by F. Li, B. Yao, M. Tang, M. Hadjieleftheriou
  (To Appear) IEEE Transactions on Knowledge and Data Engineering (IEEE TKDE), Accepted, February, 2012.
• Efficient Parallel kNN Joins for Large Data in MapReduce,
  by C. Zhang, F. Li, J. Jestes
  In Proceedings of 15th International Conference on Extending Database Technology (EDBT 2012), pages ??-??, Berlin, Germany, March, 2012.
• Efficient Threshold Monitoring for Distributed Probabilistic Data,
  by M. Tang, F. Li, J. Phillips, J. Jestes
  In Proceedings of 28th IEEE International Conference on Data Engineering (ICDE 2012), pages ??-??, Washington DC. April, 2012.
• Scalable Multi-Query Optimization for SPARQL,
  by W. Le, A. Kementsietsidis, S. Duan, F. Li
  In Proceedings of 28th IEEE International Conference on Data Engineering (ICDE 2012), pages ??-??, Washington DC. April, 2012.

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HONORS and AWARDS

• 09/2011 HP Labs Innovation Research Award (IRP award), 2011 (news release and list of awards).
• 02/2011 COFRS (Committee on Faculty Research Support) Award, Florida State University
• 02/2011 NSF Career Award
• 05/2008 First Year Assistant Professor Award, Florida State University
• 09/2006 Best Presenter Award, in Research Summer Interns Seminar@Luch Series, IBM T.J. Watson Research Center
• 03/2004 Best Paper Award in ICDE 2004
• 01/2002 First Class Honor (Accelerating Honor) in School of Computer Engineering, Nanyang Tech. University, Singapore
• 08/2001 Defense Science & Technology Agency Gold Medal, Singapore 
• 12/2000 Merit Award in Singapore Advanced e-Business Applications Competition
• 07/1997 Graduate from the National Science Class in China

Professional Services

Services:
Associate Editor: Journal of Computer Science and Technology (Database and Data Management area).
VLDB'14, Demo co-Chair, 40th International Conference on Very Large Databases.
WISE'10, Publicity co-Chairs, 11th IEEE International Conference on Web Information System Engineering.
ICDE'10, Proceedings co-Chair, IEEE 26th International Conference on Data Engineering.
MobiDE'09, Publicity Chair, ACM 8th International Workshop on Data Engineering for Wireless and Mobile Access.

Program committee memberships: Please refer to this page.

Students

I am delightful to work with the following great students:
Jeffrey Jestes (PhD student)
Wangchao Le (PhD student)
Mingwang Tang (PhD student)
Chi Zhang (PhD student)


Cody Hansen(Master student)

Graduated Students

Bin Yao (PhD student, First employment: assistant professor, Computer Science Department, Shanghai Jiao Tong University)

Daniel Gomez (Master student by project)
Kun Hou (Master student)
Vanessa Cedeno (Master student by project)
Diming Lu (Master student by project)
Justin DeBrabant (Undergraduate student)

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