Awards & Certifications

    Personal Awards

  • ACM Fellow, 2024
  • IEEE Fellow, 2022
  • VLDB Early Career Research Contributions Award, 2017
  • IEEE TCDE Early Career Award, 2014


  • Best Paper Awards

    1. ICDE 2025 Best Paper Runner Up Award
      Chao Zhang, Guoliang Li, Leyao Liu, Tao Lv, Ju Fan. CloudyBench: A Testbed for A Comprehensive Evaluation of Cloud-Native Databases. ICDE 2025.
    2. SIGMOD 2024 Research Highlight Award, 2024.
      Jianhong Tu, Ju Fan, Nan Tang, Peng Wang, Guoliang Li, Xiaoyong Du. Unicorn: A Unified Multi-tasking Model for Supporting Matching Tasks in Data Integration. SIGMOD 2023.
    3. SIGMOD Best of Papers, 2023
      Chengliang Chai, Jiabin Liu, Nan Tang, Ju Fan, Jiayi Wang, Guoliang Li. GoodCore: Coreset Selection over Incomplete Data for Data-effective and Data-efficient Machine Learning. SIGMOD 2023.
    4. VLDB Industry Best Paper Runner-up, 2023
      Xuanhe Zhou, Cheng Chen, Kunyi Li, Bingsheng He, Mian Lu, Guoliang Li. FEBench: A Benchmark for Real-Time Relational Data Feature Extraction. VLDB 2023.
    5. DASFAA Best Paper Award, 2023
      Shuai Huang, Yong Wang, Guoliang Li. ACR-Tree: Constructing R-Trees Using Deep Reinforcement Learning. DASFAA 2023.
    6. VLDB Best of Papers, 2020
      Yuanbing Li, Xian Wu, Yifei Jin, Jian Li, Guoliang Li. Efficient Algorithms for Crowd-Aided Categorization. VLDB 2020.
    7. ICDE Best of Papers, 2018
      Shuang Hao, Nan Tang, Guoliang Li, Jianhua Feng. Discovering Mis-Categorized Entities. ICDE 2018: 413-424.
    8. KDD Best of Papers, 2018
      Ping Zhang, Yuchen Li, Zhifeng Bao, Guoliang Li, Zhiyong Wu. Trajectory-driven Influential Billboard Placement. KDD 2018:2748-2757.
    9. DASFAA 2019 Best Student Paper Award, 2019
      Tianyu Zhao, Yan Huang, Songfan Yang, Yuyu Luo, Jianhua Feng, Yong Wang, Haiao Yuan, Kang Pan, Kaiyu Li, Haoda Li, Fu Zhu MathGraph: A knowledge graph for solving mathematical exercises. DASFAA 2019.
    10. Big Data Mining and Analytics 2019 Excellent Paper Award, 2019
      Xuedi Qin, Yuyu Luo, Guoliang Li, Nan Tang. DEEPEYE: An Automatic Big Data Visualization Framework Volume 1, Number 1, March 2018
    11. CIKM 2017 Best Full Paper Award, 2017
      Yan Zhuang, Guoliang Li, Zhuojian Zhong, Jianhua Feng. Hike: A Hybrid Human-Machine Method for Entity Alignment in Large-Scale Knowledge Bases. CIKM 2017: 1917-1926.
    12. FCS 2016 Outstanding Paper Award, 2016
      Minghe YU, Guoliang LI, Dong DENG, Jianhua FENG, String similarity search and join; a survey. String similarity search and join; a survey. Frontiers ofComputer Science, 2016, 10(3): 399-417.
    13. APWeb 2014 Best Paper Award, 2014
      Henan Wang, Guoliang Li, Jianhua Feng. Group-Based Personalized Location Recommendation on Social Networks. APWeb 2014: 68-80.
    14. DASFAA 2014 Best Paper Runner-up, 2014
      Jianhong Feng, Guoliang Li, Jianhua Feng. Incremental Quality Inference in Crowdsourcing. DASFAA (2) 2014: 453-467.
    15. WAIM 2012 Best Paper Award, 2012
      Nan Zhang, Jianhua Feng. Polaris: A Fingerprint based Localization System over Wireless Networks. WAIM 2012


    National Awards

  • NSFC Distinguished Young Scholar, 2019-2028
  • NSFC Outstanding Young Scholar, 2014-2017
  • Ten Thousand Talent Program for Young Top-notch Talent, 2016
  • Young Changjiang, 2016
  • China Youth Science and Technology Award, 2020
  • China Computer Federation Young Scientist Award, 2014
  • New Century Excellent Talents in University, 2013
  • Nominated Award of the National Excellent Doctoral Dissertation, 2011
  • The Best Ph.D. Dissertation Award from Beijing, 2010
  • Best Graduates of Tsinghua (the first prize), 2009
  • Excellent Graduate Students (one of ten) in Tsinghua, 2008
  • IBM PhD Fellowship, 2008