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Feifei Li

Associate Professor
School of Computing
University of Utah
Homepage: http://www.cs.utah.edu/~lifeifei/
Email: lifeifei AT cs DOT utah DOT.edu

EDUCATION

Boston University, Advisor: George Kollios, 09/2002 - 08/2007
Ph.D. in Computer Science
Nanyang Technological University, Singapore, 07/1998 - 01/2002 (transferred from Tsinghua University, China)
B.S. in Computer Engineering

PUBLICATIONS

Please refer to my research page, or click on the links below:
[My DBLP entry] [My Google citation page]

HONORS and AWARDS

06/2013 SIGMOD Best Undergraduate Research Poster Award (Advisor), 2013.
10/2012 Google App Engine Education Award, 2012 (details here).
07/2012 HP Labs Innovation Research Award (IRP award), 2012 (news release and list of 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

GRANTS

BIGDATA: Small: DCM: DA: Building a Mergeable and Interactive Distributed Data Layer for Big Data Summarization Systems, PI, NSF BIGDATA Program, 09/15/13-08/31/16, $685,380. Project Website, NSF link.
TWC: Medium: TCloud: A Self-Defending, Self-Evolving and Self-Accounting Trustworthy Cloud Platform, co-PI, NSF SaTC Program, 09/01/13-08/31/17, $999,991. Project Website, NSF link.
CSR: Medium: Energy-Efficient Architectures for Emerging Big-Data Workloads, co-PI, NSF CNS Program, 07/01/13-06/30/17, $873,286. Project Website, NSF link.
Research Experience for Undergraduate (REU Supplement for the CAREER grant), PI, NSF, 07/13/12-07/12/13, $16,000.
Time-Sensitive and Keyword-Aware Recommendation in Large Data", sole-PI, two HP Labs IRP Awards, 09/01/2011-08/31/2013, $125,000.00.
Non-Conventional Search and Identification of Delinquent Parent, FLorida Department of Revenue-Child Support Enforcement, co-PI, 02/11-09/13, $632,465.00.
COFRS (Committee on Faculty Research Support) Award, Efficient Aggregate Similarity Search, sole PI, Florida State University, 2011, $14,000.
CAREER: Novel Query Processing Techniques for Distributed Probabilistic Data, sole PI, NSF IIS Program, 02/01/11-01/31/16, $498,138. Project Website, NSF link
Industry Gift, PI, HP Labs China, 08/2010, $3000.
Scholarships for Service at Florida State University, co-PI, NSF Division of Undergraduate Education, 09/16/10-08/31/14, $1,853,894, NSF link.
III:Small:Efficient Ranking and Aggregate Query Processing for Probabilistic Data, single PI, NSF IIS Program, 09/01/09-08/31/12, $328,831, Project Website, NSF link.
CT-ISG: Collaborative Research: Towards Trustworthy Database Systems, PI, NSF Cyber Trust Program, 10/01/08-09/30/11, $150,620. Project Website, NSF link
Research Experience for Undergraduate (REU Supplement for the CT-ISG grant), PI, NSF, 06/16/09-09/30/11, $12,000.
DoD 2009 IASP (Information Assurance Scholarship Program) Grant, co-PI, 08/09-08/10, $46,997.
Building Trustworthy Database Systems, PI, FSU CRC Planning Grant, 12/01/07-11/30/08, $12,000.
Query Verification, PI, FSU CRC First Year Assistant Professor Grant, 05/08-08/08, $16,000
Ranking and Aggregate Query Processing for Large Scientific Data with Fuzzy Information, Source: FSU Undergraduate Research Award, PI, Student: Justin DeBrabant, $4,000, 2009.

PROFESSIONAL EXPERIENCE

Associate Professor, School of Computing, University of Utah, Salt Lake City, UT, 07/2013 - present
Assistant Professor, School of Computing, University of Utah, Salt Lake City, UT, 08/2011 - 06/2013
Assistant Professor & Director of the SAIT Laboratory, Computer Science Department, Florida State University, Tallahassee, FL, 08/2007 - 08/2011
Summer Internship, Database Research Group, Microsoft Research, Redmond, WA, 05/2007 - 08/2007
Rresearch Consultant, Database Management Research Department, AT&T Labs Research, Florham Park, NJ, 2007- 2009
Summer Internship, Database Research Group, IBM T.J. Watson Research Center, Hawthorne, NY 06/2006 - 09/2006
Summer Internship, SQL Server Group, Microsoft Corp., Redmond WA, 06/2005 - 09/2005
Research Assistant, Department of Computer Science, Boston University,05/2003 - 05/2007
Teaching Assistant, Department of Computer Science, Boston University,09/2002 - 05/2003

PROFESSIONAL SERVICE

Services:

Please refer to this page.

Program Committee Memberships:

Please refer to this page.
Reviewers/Panelists for Grant Proposals:
US Army Corps of Enginnering Research and Development Center (ERDC), 11.
National Science Foundation, 08, 09, 10, 11. 12.
Hongkong Research Grants Council, 08, 09, 10, 11, 12, 13.
Qatar National Research Fund, 12.
Vienna Science and Technology Fund, 12.
Romanian National Council for Research and Development, 12.

EXTERNAL PRESENTATIONS

08/2013, Summarizing large data and towards building local search engines, Database summer school, Fudan University.
06/2013, Towards Building an Automatic Query Engine for Large Heterogeneous Data, Microsoft Research Asia Database Summer School, in Conjunction with WAIM'13.
06/2013, Query Processing Techniques for Probabilistic Data, Hong Kong University of Science and Technology, Hong Kong.
09/2012, Flexible and Scalable Similarity Matching, Database Colloquium, Cornell University.
07/2012, Parallel kNN Join for Large Data in MapReduce, HP Labs China, Beijing, China.
01/2012, Building Wavelet Histograms for Larage Data in MapReduce, Shanghai Jiaotong University, Shanghai, China.
12/2011, Building Wavelet Histograms for Larage Data in MapReduce, HP Labs China, Beijing, China.
12/2011, Building Wavelet Histograms for Larage Data in MapReduce, Tsinghua University, Beijing, China.
12/2011, Building Wavelet Histograms for Larage Data in MapReduce, Renming University, Beijing, China.
11/2011, Building Wavelet Histograms for Larage Data in MapReduce, Indiana University-Purdue University Indianapolis, Indianapolis.
11/2011, Multi-Approximate-Keyword-Routing in GIS Data, ACM SIGSPATIAL GIS 2011, Chicago, IL.
06/2011, Flexible Aggregate Similarity Search, SIGMOD 2011, Athens, Greece.
04/2011, Summarizing Massive Datasets, University of Utah, Salt Lake City, UT.
07/2010, Query Authentication for Outsourced Databases, HP Lab China, Beijing, China
07/2010, Query Authentication for Outsourced Databases, Tsinghua University, Beijing, China
07/2010, Modeling, Using, and Querying Probabilistic Strings, Renming University, Beijing, China
03/2010, K Nearest Neighbor Queries and kNN-Joins in Large Relational Databases (Almost) for Free, Long Beach, CA.
03/2010, Approximate String Search in Spatial Databases, ICDE 2010, Long Beach, CA.
03/2010, Probabilistic String Similarity Joins, Yahoo! Research, Santa Clara, CA.
12/2009, Query and Data Security in the Database-as-a-Service Model, Computer Science Department, Shanghai Jiao Tong University, Shanghai, China.
08/2008, Approximate Aggregation in Sensor Networks, China 973 Wireless Sensor Network Lab, Shanghai Jiao Tong University, Shanghai, China.
06/2008, Finding Frequent Items in Probabilistic Data, School of Computing Science, Simon Fraser University, Vancouver, Canada.
04/2008, PIRS: Query Verification on Data Streams, ICDE 2008, Cancun, Mexico.
04/2008, Efficient Query Processing for Top-k Queries on Uncertain Data (poster), ICDE 2008, Cancun, Mexico.
09/2007, Authenticating Sliding Window Queries over Data Streams, VLDB 2007, Vienna, Austria.
07/2007, Optimized Transaction Time Versioning Inside a Database Engine, Microsoft Research, Redmond, WA.
04/2007, Privacy Preservation on Evolving Streams through Correlation Tracking, ICDE 2007, Istanbul, Turkey.
03/2007, Data and Query Security for the Data Publishing Model, AT&T Labs - Research, Florham Park, NJ.
03/2007, Data and Query Security for the Data Publishing Model, IBM T. J. Watson Research Center, Hawthorne, NY.
02/2007, Data and Query Security for the Data Publishing Model, Florida State University, Tallahassee, FL.
08/2006, Privacy Preservation on Evolving Streams through Correlation Tracking, IBM T. J. Watson Research Center, Hawthorne, NY.
06/2006, Dynamic Authenticated Index Structures for Outsourced Databases , SIGMOD 2006, Chicago, IL.
04/2006, Characterizing and Exploiting Reference Locality in Data Stream Applications, ICDE 2006, Atlanta, GA.
04/2004, Spatio-Temporal Aggregation Using Sketches, ICDE 2004, Boston, MA.

TEACHING EXPERIENCE

CS5530 Database Systems (undergrad), School of Computing, University of Utah
Spring 2013.
CS7941 Data Reading Group, School of Computing, University of Utah
Spring 2013.
CS6530 Advanced Database Systems (grad), School of Computing, University of Utah
Fall 2012.
CS5530 Database Systems (undergrad), School of Computing, University of Utah
Spring 2012.
CS6931 Database Seminar, School of Computing, University of Utah
Spring 2012.
CS6960 Database Kernels and Large Data Management, School of Computing, University of Utah
Fall 2011.
COP4710 Introduction to Databases (undergraduate level course), Computer Science Department, Florida State University
Fall 2010, Spring 2010, Fall 2009, Fall 2008, Spring 2008.
COP5725, Database Systems (graduate level course), Computer Science Department, Florida State University
Spring 2011, Spring 2010, Spring 2009, Fall 2007.
CIS5910 Advanced Topics in Data Management (graduate level course), Computer Science Department, Florida State University
Fall 2008.

PATENTS

CO-Inventor, Preserving Privacy of One-Dimensional Data Streams Using Dynamic Correlations, US patent number 7.853.545, owned by IBM.
CO-Inventor, Preserving Privacy of One-Dimensional Data Streams by Perturbing Data With Noise and Using Dynamic Autocorrelation, US patent number 7.840.516, own by IBM.