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Ke YI

Professor of Computer Science and Engineering, and Director of MSc Program in Big Data Technology at The Hong Kong University of Science and Technology

Areas of expertise

  • - Database theory and algorithms
  • - Parallel and distributed algorithms
  • - Data streams

Major works

SIGMOD Best Paper Award (2016); SIGMOD Best Demonstration Award (2015); Google Faculty Research Award (2010).

About me

Ke Yi is an ACM Distinguished Scientist and a Professor in the Department of Computer Science and Engineering at HKUST. He obtained his Bachelor's degree from Tsinghua University (2001) and PhD from Duke University (2006), both in Computer Science. He has received the Best Teaching Award twice from the MSc Program in Big Data Technology at HKUST for teaching MSBD 5003 Big Data Computing.