Li Xiong

Li Xiong is a Samuel Candler Dobbs Professor of Computer Science and Professor of Biomedical Informatics at Emory University. She held a Winship Distinguished Research Professorship from 2015-2018. She has a Ph.D. from Georgia Institute of Technology, an MS from Johns Hopkins University, and a BS from the University of Science and Technology of China. Her research lab, Assured Information Management and Sharing (AIMS), conducts research in the intersection of data management, machine learning, and data privacy and security, with a recent focus on privacy-enhancing and trustworthy machine learning and data sharing algorithms to advance data driven-AI systems for healthcare, public health, and spatial intelligence. She has published over 180 papers and received six best paper or runner up awards. She has served and serves as associate editor for IEEE TKDE, IEEE TDSC, and VLDBJ, general chair for ACM SIGSPATIAL 2024, CIKM 2022, program chair for IEEE BigData 2020 and ACM SIGSPATIAL 2020, 2018, tutorial chair for VLDB 2024, program vice-chair for VLDB 2024, ACM SIGMOD 2024, 2022, and IEEE ICDE 2023, 2020. Her research is supported by federal agencies including NSF, NIH, IARPA, AFOSR, PCORI, and industry awards including Google, IBM, Mitsubishi, Cisco, AT&T, and Woodrow Wilson Foundation. She is an IEEE fellow.