李青教授

Qing LI   (李青教授) BEng(Hunan), MSc, PhD (Southern California) FIEEE, FIET/IEE, DistCCF

Research Areas:
Multi-modal data management, Data warehousing and mining, Social media and Web services, and e-Learning Technologies

Qing Li is currently a Chair Professor (Data Science) and the Head of the Department of Computing, the Hong Kong Polytechnic University. Formerly, he was the founding Director of the Multimedia software Engineering Research Centre (MERC), and a Professor at City University of Hong Kong where he worked in the Department of Computer Science from 1998 to 2018. Prior to these, he has also taught at the Hong Kong University of Science and Technology and the Australian National University (Canberra, Australia). Prof. Li served as a consultant to Microsoft Research Asia (Beijing, China), Motorola Global Computing and Telecommunications Division (Tianjin Regional Operations Center), and the Division of Information Technology, Commonwealth Scientific and Industrial Research Organization (CSIRO) in Australia. He has been an Adjunct Professor of the University of Science and Technology of China (USTC) and the Wuhan University, and a Guest Professor of the Hunan University (Changsha, China) where he got his BEng. degree from the Department of Computer Science in 1982. He is also a Guest Professor (Software Technology) of the Zhejiang University (Hangzhou, China) -- the leading university of the Zhejiang province where he was born.

Prof. Li has been actively involved in the research community by serving as an associate editor and reviewer for technical journals, and as an organizer/co-organizer of numerous international conferences. Some recent conferences in which he is playing or has played major roles include ICDE 2025, ICDSC2020, APWeb-WAIM’18, ICDM 2018, WISE2017, ICDSC2016, DASFAA2015, U-Media2014, ER2013, RecSys2013, NDBC2012, ICMR2012, CoopIS2011, WAIM2010, DASFAA2010, APWeb-WAIM'09, ER'08, WISE'07, ICWL'06, HSI'05, WAIM'04, IDEAS'03,VLDB'02, PAKDD'01, IFIP 2.6 Working Conference on Database Semantics (DS-9), IDS'00, and WISE'00. In addition, he served as a programme committee member for over fifty international conferences (including VLDB, ICDE, WWW, DASFAA, ER, CIKM, CAiSE, CoopIS, and FODO). He is currently a Fellow of IET/IEE, a Senior Member of IEEE, a member of ACM-SIGMOD and IEEE Technical Committee on Data Engineering. He is the chairperson of the Hong Kong Web Society, and also served/is serving as an executive committee (EXCO) member of IEEE-Hong Kong Computer Chapter and ACM Hong Kong Chapter. In addition, he serves as a councilor of the Database Society of Chinese Computer Federation (CCF), a member of the Big Data Expert Committee of CCF, and is a Steering Committee member of DASFAA, ER, ICWL, UMEDIA, and WISE Society.

The homepage of Prof. Qing Li at the Microsoft Academic Search: http://academic.research.microsoft.com/Author/9123174/qing-li

Selective Publications:

• Publications from the DBLP link

• Publications from Google Scholar

Books published:

Recent services/activities involved:

Journal editing services:

• Associate editor (2006-2012), ACM Transactions on Internet Technology (TOIT)
• Associate editor (2008-2012), IEEE Transactions on Knowledge and Data Engineering (TKDE)
• Associate editor (2005-present), World Wide Web: Internet and Web Information Systems (Kluwer Academic Pub., USA)
• Associate editor (2016-present), Data Scienec & Engineering, Springer
• Area Editor (2007-2012), International Journal of Distance Education Technology (Idea Group Pub., USA)
• Editorial board member (2002-present), Journal of Web Engineering (Rinton Press, Princeton, USA)
• Editorial  advisory board (since 2000), Journal of Applied Science and Engineering (Tamkang University Press, Taiwan)
• Editorial board member (since2003), WISE Book Series: Web Information Systems Engineering and Internet Technology (Kluwer Academic Pub., USA)

Journal guest editing services:

• Guest-editor, World Wide Web, special issue on “Social Media and Interactive Technologies”, Springer, 2018.
• Guest-editor, Neurocomputing, special issue on “Recent Advances in Semantic Computing and Personalization”, Elsevier, vol.254, Sept. 2017.
• Guest-editor, Concurrency and Computation: Practice and Experience, special issue on “Big Data related Technologies and Applications”, Wiley, 2016 (vol.28 no. 15).
• Guest-editor, Multimedia Tools and Applications, special issue on “Multimedia data sensing and analyzing of surveillance systems ”, Springer, 2016 (vol.75 no. 19).
• Guest-editor, IEEE Multimedia, special issue on “Social Media for Ubiquitous Learning and Adaptive Tutoring”, IEEE, 2015.
• ACM Transactions on Intelligent Systems and Technologies special issue on Intelligent Tutoring and Coaching Systems (2013)
• World Wide Web: Internet and Web Information Systems special issue on Web-based Services and Information Systems (2012)
• IEEE Internet Computing special issue on Emerging Internet Technologies and Applications for e-Learning (2009)
• World Wide Web: Internet and Web Information Systems special issue on Engineering Issues for Web2.0 (2009)
• IEEE Transactions on Knowledge and Data Engineering special issue on Knowledge and Data Engineering for e-Learning (2008)
• ACM Transactions on Internet Technologies special issue on Internet Technologies for Distance Learning (2007)
• IEEE Transactions on Multimedia special section on Distributed Media Technologies and Applications (2006)
• International Journal of Wireless and Mobile Computing special issue on Multimedia Systems and Applications (2005)
• World Wide Web: Internet and Web Information Systems special issue on Visual Database Systems (2003)
• Information Science: an International Journal special issue on Multimedia and Mobile Agents (2003)
• International Journal of Distance Education Technologies special issue on Web-based Learning Systems (2003)
• World Wide Web: Internet and Web Information Systems special issue on Web Media Information Systems (2002)
• Knowledge and Information Systems special issue on Web Information Systems Engineering (2002)

Selective Conference Services:

• Conference General Co-Chair, The 2^nd Joint International Conference of APWeb-WAIM (APWeb-WAIM’18), Macau, China, July 23-25, 2018.
• Area Chair of 18^th IEEE International Conference on Data Mining (ICDM 2018), Nov. 17-20, Singapore.
• Demo Chair of 18^th International Conference on Web Engineering (ICWE 2018), June 5-8, 2018 in Cáceres, Spain.
• Panel Chair of 2017 Forum on Future Data (FFD’17), Donguang, China, Nov.11-13, 2017.
• Conference General Co-Chair, The 18th International Conference on Web Information Systems Engineering (WISE2017), Moscow, Russia, Oct. 7-11, 2017.
• Program Committee Co-Chair, the 4^th Greater China MOOC Symposium (GCMS’17), Shatin, Hong Kong, China, 20-21 July, 2017.
• Panel Chair of IEEE International Conference on Data Science in Cyberspace (ICDSC 2016), Changsha, China, June 13-16, 2016.
• Panel Chair of 17th Int'l Conf. on Web-Age Information Management (WAIM 2016), Nanchang, China, June 3-5, 2016.
• DASFAA2015 (Conference Co-Chair); DASFAA2013 (Conference Co-Chair); DASFAA2010 (Program Committee Co-Chair); DASFAA'07 (Publicity Co-Chair); DASFAA'2004 (Panel Co-Chair)
• ER2013 (Conference Co-Chair); ER2008 (Program Committee Co-Chair)
• ACM RecSys 2013 (Conference Co-Chair)
• WAIM2010 (Conference General Co-Chair); WAIM'2006 (Panel Co-Chair); WAIM'2004 (Program Committee Co-Chair)
• APWeb-WAIM'09 (Program Committee Co-Chair); APWEB'2006, APWEB'2005(Treasurer); APWEB'2004 (Program Committee member) 
• ACM ICMR 2012 (Practitioner Chair)
• WWW'08 (Program Committee Member); WWW'2003 (Poster PC member)
• IEEE ICDE'08 (Demo PC Member)
• IEEE ICDCS'2006, IEEE ICDCS'2005 (Program Committee member)
• CoopIS'06, CoopIS'05, CoopIS'04, CoopIS'03 (Program Committee member)
• ICWL'09 (Program Committee Co-Chair), ICWL'08, ICWL'2007, ICWL'2006, ICWL'2005, ICWL'2004 (Conference General Co-Chair)
• WISE'07 (General Co-Chair); WISE'06 (Publicity Chair); WISE'05, WISE'03 (PC member); WISE'02(SC liaison/representative); WISE'00(PC Co-Chair)
• INFOSCALE'07 (Conference General Co-Chair)
• PCM'07 (Publication Co-Chair); PCM'06 (Publicity and Liaison Chair)
• NDBC'06 (Program Committee Co-Chair)
• HSI'2005, HSI'2003 (Regional General Chair)
• AINA'2004 (Program Area Chair)
• RIDE'2004, RIDE'2003 (Program Committee member)
• ODBASE'2003 (Program Committee member)
• VLDB'2002 (Organization Co-Chair; PC member)

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Room PQ803a,
Department of Computing,
The Hong Kong Polytechnic University,
Hung Hom, Kowloon
Hong Kong, CHINA
csqli@comp.polyu.edu.hk

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Last updated: Dec 10, 2025.

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