LI ChaoAssociate Research Professor

  • Email : li-chao@tsinghua.edu.cn
  • Phone : 010-62788788
  • Address : Room 1-311, FIT Building, Tsinghua University, Haidian District, Beijing, China
Education Background

Sep. 2000 - Jul. 2006 Ph.D. in Engineering, Department of Computer Science and Technology, Tsinghua University

Sep. 1996 - Jul. 2000 Bachelor of Engineering, Department of Computer Science, Xi'an Jiaotong University (Minor in English,Department of Foreign Languages)


Work Experience

2025 - Present: Core Member, Artificial Intelligence General Education Research Center (AIGE), Department of Computer Science and Technology, Tsinghua University

Nov. 2023 - Present: Assistant Director, Tsinghua-Kelan Advanced Intelligent Database (AIDB) Research Institute, Tsinghua University

Jan. 2019 - Present: Associate Researcher, Beijing National Research Center for Information Science and Technology, Tsinghua University

Aug. 2018 - Oct. 2019: Associate Researcher, School of Information, Tsinghua University

2018 - 2019: Director, Tsinghua (Information Technology Research Institute) - Beiken Smart Health Big Data Joint Research Center

2015 - 2018: Deputy Director, Web and Software Technology Research Center, Institute of Information Technology, Tsinghua University
2015 - Present: Core Member (Smart Education), Smart City Big Data Research Center, Institute of Data Science, Tsinghua University

Dec. 2012 - Jul. 2018: Associate Researcher, Institute of Information Technology, Tsinghua University

Aug. 2006 - Dec. 2012: Assistant Researcher, Institute of Information Technology, Tsinghua University


Academic Affiliations

2024 - Present: Standing Committee Member, Health Information and Internet Medicine Professional Committee, China Medicine Education Association

2023 - Present: External Thesis Reviewer, Academic Degree Center, Ministry of Education

2021 - Present: Co-Director, Industry-Education Integration Working Committee, China Intelligent Computing Industry Alliance

2020: Review Expert, National First-Class Undergraduate Courses, Higher Education Department, Ministry of Education

2019 - Present: Expert, Youth Programming Ability Level Assessment Expert Committee, China Youth Palaces Association
2019 - Present: Secretary, "Big Data and Intelligent Computing" Industry-Education Integration Innovation Community

2018 - Present: Committee Member, Expert Committee of China Artificial Intelligence Open Source Software Development Alliance, China Electronics Standardization Institute

2017 - Present: Editor, Computer Terminology Review Committee, CCF

2016 - Present: Compilation Expert, International Edition of the China Information Technology Service Standards (ITSS) System Construction Report, Ministry of Industry and Information Technology
2016 - Present: Review Expert, Science and Technology Evaluation and Review Information System, Ministry of Education
2016 - Present: External Thesis Reviewer, Beijing Normal University

2016 - Present: Expert Committee Member, Subcommittee on Educational Technology, National Information Technology Standardization Technical Committee (SAC/TC28/SC36)
2016 - Present: Expert, ISO/IEC JTC1 SC36 WG8 Learning Analytics Interoperability Working Group
2016 - Present: Committee Member, External Liaison Committee, China Association for Higher Education Computer Education Research
2011 - Present: Committee Member, Information Storage Technology Technical Committee, CCF

2010 - Present: Senior Member, China Computer Federation (CCF)
2010 - Present: Committee Member, National Standardization Technical
Committee (SAC/TC86/SC6) Member of organizing committees or program committees for international academic conferences such as ICADL, SSS, ICSH, NCIS, IEEE BigMM, ICCSE, Healthcom, ICCCBD, etc.
Reviewer or consultant for multiple national, industry, and local standards.


Research Areas

(1) Database Technology and Applications

(2) Big Data and Knowledge Engineering

(3) Applications of AIDB in Healthcare, Transportation, Education, and Emerging Industries


Research Overview

Integrating big data, databases, blockchain, and intelligent

technologies to innovate in smart transportation, healthcare, social

governance, education, and emerging industries. Contributions include

advancements in trusted intelligent database systems and data-intelli-

gence application support.


Awards and Honors

(1) Third Prize, Outstanding Scientific and Technological Achieve-ments, National Archives Administration (2008, Provincial/Ministerial)

(2) First Prize, Outstanding Scientific and Technological Achieve-ments, Beijing Archives Administration (2009)

(3) Outstanding Individual Award, Institute of Information Technology, Tsinghua University (2011, 2012)

(4) Second Prize, 7th Tsinghua Young Faculty Teaching Competition (Science and Engineering Group, 2016)

(5) Lecturer, National Top Online Open Course, Ministry of Education(2018)

(6) First Prize, Outstanding Project Award, Tsinghua University Student Research Training (SRT) Program (2019, Advisor)
(7) Lecturer, National First-Class Undergraduate Course, Ministry of Education (2020)
(8) Second Prize, China Industry-University-Research Collaboration Innovation Award (2021)
(9) "Outstanding Working Committee 2021," Industry-Education Integra-tion Working Committee, China Intelligent Computing Industry Alliance (2021)
(10) Best Paper Award, 17th IEEE ICCSE (2022)

(11) National Second Prize, WISA 2022 Innovation Design Competition (2022, Advisor)

(12) First Prize, Invention and Entrepreneurship Innovation Award, China Invention Association (2023)

(13) Award for MOOC Instructor with Over 500,000 Enrollments, XuetangX 10th Anniversary Conference, Online Education Research Center, Ministry of Education (2024)


Academic Achievements

(1) Published Papers: Over 80

[1] Chao Li, Chunxiao Xing, Li Dong, Michael Bailou Huang. A Semi-Automatic System for Managing Multiple Digital Preservation Risks of Digital Libraries in China. Proceedings of JCDL2009 (ACM/IEEE-CS Joint Conference on Digital Libraries, Austin, TX, USA, June 2009)
PP. 425. EI: 20094912522158

[2] Li Chao, Zhang Mingbo, Xing Chunxiao, Hu Jinsong. A Survey of Key Technologies in Columnar Storage Databases. Computer Science, 2010, 37(12):1-7.

[3] Liang Ye, Pan Lin, Li Chao, Qin Ying. Cross-Language Intelligent News Recommendation Technology and Challenges for Big Data. NCIS 2013 (Outstanding Paper).

[4] Mira Shah, Chao Li, Ming Sheng, Yong Zhang, Chunxiao Xing. CrowdMed: A Blockchain-based Approach to Consent Management for Health Data Sharing. International Conference on Smart Health (ICSH) 2019, June 30-July 2. (Best Paper Award Runner-Up).

[5] Mira Shah, Chao Li, Ming Sheng, Yong Zhang, Chunxiao Xing. Smarter Smart Contracts: Efficient Consent Management in Health Data Sharing. APWeb-WAIM 2020 (Best Student Paper Runner-Up).

[6] Chaochen Hu, Chao Li, Guigang Zhang, Zhiwei Lei, Mira Shah, Yong Zhang, Chunxiao Xing, Jinpeng Jiang, Renyi Bao. CrowdMed-II: A Blockchain-based Framework for Efficient Consent Management in Health Data Sharing. WWW (World Wide Web), 2022 [12].

[7] Zhiyi Yu, Chao Li, Chaochen Hu*, Zhen Chen, Yandong Yao, Jiang Wu, Hao Wang, Jialun Du, Min Guo, Haoyu Wang, Weimin Li, Xiu Li,Xiaodong Ma, Yisong Zhang, Shuangshou Li. One Case of THOUGHT:Industry-University Converged Education Practice on Open Source.ICCSE 2022 (Best Paper Award).

[8] Xiangke Mao, Chao Li, Yong Zhang, Guigang Zhang, Jiafu Li, Mira Shah, Chunxiao Xing. HuaBaseChain: An Extensible Blockchain withHigh Performance. IEEE Internet of Things Journal, doi:10.1109/JIOT.2023.3247584.

[9] Hu, Chaochen, Zihan Sun, Chao Li, Yong Zhang, and Chunxiao Xing. 2023. "Survey of Time Series Data Generation in IoT." Sensors 23, no. 15: 6976.

[10] Xiangke Mao, Chao Li, Yong Zhang, Guigang Zhang, Chunxiao Xing.Efficient and Secure Management of Medical Data Sharing Based on Blockchain Technology. Appl. Sci. 2024, 14(15), 6816.

(2)Patents Granted: Over 20

[1] Method and System for Performance Monitoring of Mass Storage Systems Based on Storage Area Network, ZL 2005 10089929.7.

[2] Cloud Programming Method, ZL 201210023266.9.

[3] Adaptive Data Storage Management Method and System Based on Data
Blocks, ZL 201310291539.2.

[4] Text Clustering Method for Mixed-Length Text Sets, ZL 201510037543.5

[5] Data Security Protection Method and Device Based on Data Partitioning
, ZL 201610188545.9.

[6] Bilingual Word Alignment Method and System, ZL 2021108018380.

[7] Blockchain Data Query Method and Device, ZL 2021104267577.

[8] Data Prefetching Method and Device, ZL 2022106582369.

[9] Point of Interest Recommendation Method and System, ZL 2021116275945.

Others:

Industry Standard SJ/T11445.4-2017 "Specification for Unstructured Data Collection and Analysis," released by the Ministry of Industry and Information Technology, as the 1st primary contributor.


Talent Development

Over a decade of undergraduate teaching and graduate student super-vision. Core member of the Tsinghua University Computer Science Public Basic Course Teaching Team and the Artificial Intelligence General Education Research Center (AIGE), Department of Computer Science and

Technology, Tsinghua University.


Long-term engagement in industry-academia collaboration and industry-education integration, integrating cutting-edge research and industria-lization experience into talent development.

(1) 2024: Awarded "Outstanding" for the Ministry of Education-Huawei Industry-Academia Collaborative Education Project.
(2) Since 2022, serving as one of the main instructors for the global integrated course "Big Data and Machine Intelligence," responsible for the industry-education integration module. Recognized as a high-quality general education course at Tsinghua University in 2024.
(3) Co-authored "Value Cultivation in Computational Thinking: Ideologi-cal and Political Practices in Computer Programming Courses,"included in the 2023 publication "Moving in the Same Direction:Tsinghua University Course Ideology Teaching Cases."
(4)  Invited keynote speaker at the 2023 (4th) China Artificial Intelligence Education Conference: "Computational Thinking and Data Literacy: From Practice to Practice."
(5) Lead drafter for the group standards "Digital Literacy and Skills Certification" and "Computer Core Course Specifications," China Association for Higher Education Computer Education Research, 2023.
(6) Guest speaker at the 2021 China Artificial Intelligence Education Conference: "Ubiquitous, Integrated, Collaborative: Innovating Teaching and Learning While Preserving Tradition."
(7) Lecturer for the 2021 "Huiyuan Sharing" National University Open Data Innovation Competition (Tsinghua Station).
(8) Served as a national judge for the 2021 5th China Blockchain Development Competition as a representative of academic research institutions.
(9) Invited lecturer for the 9th session of the China Education Media Artificial Intelligence Education Online Open Course (2020), with over 10,000 viewers.

Extended campus resources to serve off-campus learners through online platforms. From 2022 to 2024, launched industry-education integrated MOOC courses on XuetangX, including "Practical Distributed Data Systems - Beginner," "Practical Distributed Data Systems - Advanced,"Big Data and Machine Intelligence," and "Applications of Data and Intelligent Technologies" as general literacy courses.