| 2026 | ICDE | Benchmarking RL-Enhanced Spatial Indices Against Traditional, Advanced, and Learned Counterparts. | Guanli Liu, Renata Borovica-Gajic, Hai Lan, Zhifeng Bao |
| 2026 | ICDE | When Complex Event Recognition Meets Cloud-Native Architectures. | Shizhe Liu, Haipeng Dai, Meng Li, Yuemeng Zhang, Shaoxu Song, Zhifeng Bao, Hancheng Wang, Xiaofeng Gao, Guihai Chen |
| 2026 | ICDE | Decomposition-Driven Multi-Table Retrieval and Reasoning for Numerical Question Answering. | Feng Luo, Hai Lan, Hui Luo, Zhifeng Bao, Xiaoli Wang, J. Shane Culpepper, Shazia Sadiq |
| 2026 | SIGIR | A Sketch+Text Composed Image Retrieval Dataset for Thangka. | Jinyu Xu, Yi Sun, Jiangling Zhang, Qing Xie, Daomin Ji, Zhifeng Bao, Jiachen Li, Yanchun Ma, Yongjian Liu |
| 2025 | ICDE | Dataset Discovery via Line Charts. | Daomin Ji, Hui Luo, Zhifeng Bao, J. Shane Culpepper |
| 2025 | KDD | Dynamic Structural Clustering Unleashed: Flexible Similarities, Versatile Updates and for All Parameters. | Zhuowei Zhao, Junhao Gan, Boyu Ruan, Zhifeng Bao, Jianzhong Qi, Sibo Wang |
| 2025 | RecSys | Enhancing Transferability and Consistency in Cross-Domain Recommendations via Supervised Disentanglement. | Yuhan Wang, Qing Xie, Zhifeng Bao, Mengzi Tang, Lin Li, Yongjian Liu |
| 2025 | WWW | Let the Augmentation Path Speak. | Daomin Ji, Hui Luo, Zhifeng Bao, Shazia Sadiq, J. Shane Culpepper |
| 2025 | WWW | Distinctiveness Maximization in Datasets Assemblage. | Tingting Wang, Shixun Huang, Zhifeng Bao, J. Shane Culpepper, Volkan Dedeoglu, Reza Arablouei |
| 2025 | WACV | On-the-Fly Object-aware Representative Point Selection in Point Cloud. | Xiaoyu Zhang, Ziwei Wang, Hai Dong, Zhifeng Bao, Jiajun Liu |
| 2025 | SC | MetoHash: A Memory-Efficient and Traffic-Optimized Hashing Index on Hybrid PMem-DRAM Memories. | Zixiang Yu, Guangyang Deng, Zhirong Shen, Qiangsheng Su, Ronglong Wu, Xiaoli Wang, Quanqing Xu, Chuanhui Yang, Zhifeng Bao |
| 2024 | CIKM | Urban Traffic Accident Risk Prediction Revisited: Regionality, Proximity, Similarity and Sparsity. | Minxiao Chen, Haitao Yuan, Nan Jiang, Zhifeng Bao, Shangguang Wang |
| 2024 | ICDE | GraphRARE: Reinforcement Learning Enhanced Graph Neural Network with Relative Entropy. | Tianhao Peng, Wenjun Wu, Haitao Yuan, Zhifeng Bao, Zhao Pengrui, Xin Yu, Xuetao Lin, Yu Liang, Yanjun Pu |
| 2024 | ICDE | A Fully On-Disk Updatable Learned Index. | Hai Lan, Zhifeng Bao, J. Shane Culpepper, Renata Borovica-Gajic, Yu Dong |
| 2024 | ICDE | Enabling Roll-Up and Drill-Down Operations in News Exploration with Knowledge Graphs for Due Diligence and Risk Management. | Sha Wang, Yuchen Li, Hanhua Xiao, Zhifeng Bao, Lambert Deng, Yanfei Dong |
| 2024 | ICDE | Efficient Example-Guided Interactive Graph Search. | Zhuowei Zhao, Junhao Gan, Jianzhong Qi, Zhifeng Bao |
| 2024 | WWW | Cost-effective Data Labelling for Graph Neural Networks. | Shixun Huang, Ge Lee, Zhifeng Bao, Shirui Pan |
| 2023 | ADMA | Knowledge Graph Embedding with Relation Rotation and Entity Adjustment by Quaternions. | Wen Sun, Qingqiang Wu, Xiaoli Wang, Junfeng Yao, Zhifeng Bao |
| 2023 | ICDE | Visualization Recommendation Through Visual Relation Learning and Visual Preference Learning. | Daomin Ji, Hui Luo, Zhifeng Bao |
| 2023 | ICDE | A Survey on Modern Deep Neural Network for Traffic Prediction: Trends, Methods and Challenges (Extended Abstract). | David Alexander Tedjopurnomo, Zhifeng Bao, Baihua Zheng, Farhana Murtaza Choudhury, A. K. Qin |
| 2023 | WWW | Facility Relocation Search For Good: When Facility Exposure Meets User Convenience. | Hui Luo, Zhifeng Bao, J. Shane Culpepper, Mingzhao Li, Yanchang Zhao |
| 2022 | ICDE | Local Clustering over Labeled Graphs: An Index-Free Approach. | Yudong Niu, Yuchen Li, Ju Fan, Zhifeng Bao |
| 2022 | KDD | Representative Routes Discovery from Massive Trajectories. | Tingting Wang, Shixun Huang, Zhifeng Bao, J. Shane Culpepper, Reza Arablouei |
| 2022 | SIGMOD | Approximate Range Thresholding. | Zhuo Zhang, Junhao Gan, Zhifeng Bao, Seyed Mohammad Hussein Kazemi, Guangyong Chen, Fengyuan Zhu |
| 2021 | CIKM | Robust Road Network Representation Learning: When Traffic Patterns Meet Traveling Semantics. | Yile Chen, Xiucheng Li, Gao Cong, Zhifeng Bao, Cheng Long, Yiding Liu, Arun Kumar Chandran, Richard Ellison |
| 2021 | DASFAA | Time Period-Based Top-k Semantic Trajectory Pattern Query. | Munkh-Erdene Yadamjav, Farhana Murtaza Choudhury, Zhifeng Bao, Baihua Zheng |
| 2021 | ICDE | An Effective Joint Prediction Model for Travel Demands and Traffic Flows. | Haitao Yuan, Guoliang Li, Zhifeng Bao, Ling Feng |
| 2021 | ICDE | Towards Efficient Motif-based Graph Partitioning: An Adaptive Sampling Approach. | Shixun Huang, Yuchen Li, Zhifeng Bao, Zhao Li |
| 2021 | ICSOC | Edge Node Placement with Minimum Costs: When User Tolerance on Service Delay Matters. | Xiaoyu Zhang, Shixun Huang, Hai Dong, Zhifeng Bao |
| 2021 | SIGMOD | Public Transport Planning: When Transit Network Connectivity Meets Commuting Demand. | Sheng Wang, Yuan Sun, Christopher Musco, Zhifeng Bao |
| 2021 | SIGMOD | Minimizing the Regret of an Influence Provider. | Yipeng Zhang, Yuchen Li, Zhifeng Bao, Baihua Zheng, H. V. Jagadish |
| 2020 | CHIIR | The Impact of Ad Quality and Position on Mobile SERPs. | Afrah Olayan Alanazi, Mark Sanderson, Zhifeng Bao, Jaewon Kim |
| 2020 | CIKM | An Index Advisor Using Deep Reinforcement Learning. | Hai Lan, Zhifeng Bao, Yuwei Peng |
| 2020 | DASFAA | A Data-Driven Approach for GPS Trajectory Data Cleaning. | Lun Li, Xiaohang Chen, Qizhi Liu, Zhifeng Bao |
| 2020 | DASFAA | DARS: Diversity and Distribution-Aware Region Search. | Siyu Liu, Qizhi Liu, Zhifeng Bao |
| 2020 | DASFAA | Bus Frequency Optimization: When Waiting Time Matters in User Satisfaction. | Songsong Mo, Zhifeng Bao, Baihua Zheng, Zhiyong Peng |
| 2020 | ER | IMAS: An Intelligent Medical Analysis System Based on Concept Graph. | Xiaoli Wang, Yixiang Xie, Siqi Xie, Zhifeng Bao, Shuwen Su |
| 2020 | ICDE | Temporal Network Representation Learning via Historical Neighborhoods Aggregation. | Shixun Huang, Zhifeng Bao, Guoliang Li, Yanghao Zhou, J. Shane Culpepper |
| 2020 | ICDE | Crowdsourced Collective Entity Resolution with Relational Match Propagation. | Jiacheng Huang, Wei Hu, Zhifeng Bao, Yuzhong Qu |
| 2020 | ICDE | Online Anomalous Trajectory Detection with Deep Generative Sequence Modeling. | Yiding Liu, Kaiqi Zhao, Gao Cong, Zhifeng Bao |
| 2020 | WWW | HQADeepHelper: A Deep Learning System for Healthcare Question Answering. | Feng Luo, Xiaoli Wang, Qingfeng Wu, Jiayin Liang, Xueliang Qiu, Zhifeng Bao |
| 2020 | SIGIR | Spatial Object Recommendation with Hints: When Spatial Granularity Matters. | Hui Luo, Jingbo Zhou, Zhifeng Bao, Shuangli Li, J. Shane Culpepper, Haochao Ying, Hao Liu, Hui Xiong |
| 2020 | SIGMOD | Effective Travel Time Estimation: When Historical Trajectories over Road Networks Matter. | Haitao Yuan, Guoliang Li, Zhifeng Bao, Ling Feng |
| 2019 | ECIR | How do Computer Scientists Use Google Scholar?: A Survey of User Interest in Elements on SERPs and Author Profile Pages. | Jaewon Kim, Johanne R. Trippas, Mark Sanderson, Zhifeng Bao, W. Bruce Croft |
| 2019 | ICDE | Finding Temporal Influential Users Over Evolving Social Networks. | Shixun Huang, Zhifeng Bao, J. Shane Culpepper, Bang Zhang |
| 2019 | ICDE | Continuous Range Queries Over Multi-attribute Trajectories. | Jianqiu Xu, Zhifeng Bao, Hua Lu |
| 2019 | KDD | Optimizing Impression Counts for Outdoor Advertising. | Yipeng Zhang, Yuchen Li, Zhifeng Bao, Songsong Mo, Ping Zhang |
| 2019 | SIGIR | Effective Medical Archives Processing Using Knowledge Graphs. | Xiaoli Wang, Rongzhen Wang, Zhifeng Bao, Jiayin Liang, Wei Lu |
| 2019 | WSDM | Interactive Visualization of Urban Areas of Interest: A Parameter-Free and Efficient Footprint Method. | Mingzhao Li, Zhifeng Bao, Farhana Murtaza Choudhury, Timos Sellis |
| 2019 | WSDM | Intelligent Traffic Analytics: From Monitoring to Controlling. | Sheng Wang, Yunzhuang Shen, Zhifeng Bao, Xiaolin Qin |
| 2018 | ADC | Finding Influential Nodes by a Fast Marginal Ranking Method. | Yipeng Zhang, Ping Zhang, Zhifeng Bao, Zizhe Xie, Qizhi Liu, Bang Zhang |
| 2018 | CIKM | Privacy-Preserving Triangle Counting in Large Graphs. | Xiaofeng Ding, Xiaodong Zhang, Zhifeng Bao, Hai Jin |
| 2018 | DASFAA | MaxBRkNN Queries for Streaming Geo-Data. | Hui Luo, Farhana Murtaza Choudhury, Zhifeng Bao, J. Shane Culpepper, Bang Zhang |
| 2018 | ER | Efficient Multi-range Query Processing on Trajectories. | Munkh-Erdene Yadamjav, Farhana Murtaza Choudhury, Zhifeng Bao, Hanan Samet |
| 2018 | ICDE | Reverse k Nearest Neighbor Search over Trajectories (Extended Abstract). | Sheng Wang, Zhifeng Bao, J. Shane Culpepper, Timos Sellis, Gao Cong |
| 2018 | ICDM | D-CARS: A Declarative Context-Aware Recommender System. | Rosni Lumbantoruan, Xiangmin Zhou, Yongli Ren, Zhifeng Bao |
| 2018 | KDD | Trajectory-driven Influential Billboard Placement. | Ping Zhang, Zhifeng Bao, Yuchen Li, Guoliang Li, Yipeng Zhang, Zhiyong Peng |
| 2018 | SIGIR | Torch: A Search Engine for Trajectory Data. | Sheng Wang, Zhifeng Bao, J. Shane Culpepper, Zizhe Xie, Qizhi Liu, Xiaolin Qin |
| 2018 | SIGMOD | Trip Planning by an Integrated Search Paradigm. | Sheng Wang, Mingzhao Li, Yipeng Zhang, Zhifeng Bao, David Alexander Tedjopurnomo, Xiaolin Qin |
| 2018 | SIGMOD | Efficient Selection of Geospatial Data on Maps for Interactive and Visualized Exploration. | Tao Guo, Kaiyu Feng, Gao Cong, Zhifeng Bao |
| 2018 | SIGMOD | POIsam: a System for Efficient Selection of Large-scale Geospatial Data on Maps. | Tao Guo, Mingzhao Li, Peishan Li, Zhifeng Bao, Gao Cong |
| 2018 | SIGMOD | DITA: Distributed In-Memory Trajectory Analytics. | Zeyuan Shang, Guoliang Li, Zhifeng Bao |
| 2018 | SIGMOD | DITA: A Distributed In-Memory Trajectory Analytics System. | Zeyuan Shang, Guoliang Li, Zhifeng Bao |
| 2018 | WSDM | Supporting Large-scale Geographical Visualization in a Multi-granularity Way. | Mingzhao Li, Zhifeng Bao, Farhana Murtaza Choudhury, Timos Sellis |
| 2018 | WSDM | A Unified Processing Paradigm for Interactive Location-based Web Search. | Sheng Wang, Zhifeng Bao, Shixun Huang, Rui Zhang |
| 2017 | ADC | Boosting Point-Based Trajectory Search with Quad-Tree. | Munkh-Erdene Yadamjav, Sheng Wang, Zhifeng Bao, Bang Zhang |
| 2017 | APWEB | Sifting Truths from Multiple Low-Quality Data Sources. | Zizhe Xie, Qizhi Liu, Zhifeng Bao |
| 2017 | DASFAA | Continuous Summarization over Microblog Threads. | Liangjun Song, Ping Zhang, Zhifeng Bao, Timos K. Sellis |
| 2017 | ICDE | Monitoring the Top-m Rank Aggregation of Spatial Objects in Streaming Queries. | Farhana Murtaza Choudhury, Zhifeng Bao, J. Shane Culpepper, Timos Sellis |
| 2017 | ICDE | Answering Top-k Exemplar Trajectory Queries. | Sheng Wang, Zhifeng Bao, J. Shane Culpepper, Timos Sellis, Mark Sanderson, Xiaolin Qin |
| 2016 | ADC | Visualization-Aided Exploration of the Real Estate Data. | Mingzhao Li, Zhifeng Bao, Timos Sellis, Shi Yan |
| 2016 | ADC | Joint Top-k Subscription Query Processing over Microblog Threads. | Liangjun Song, Zhifeng Bao, Farhana Murtaza Choudhury, Timos Sellis |
| 2016 | ADCS | Interactive Trip Planning Using Activity Trajectories. | Sheng Wang, Zhifeng Bao, J. Shane Culpepper, Timos Sellis, Mark Sanderson, Munkh-Erdene Yadamjav |
| 2016 | ICDE | Crowdsourcing-based real-time urban traffic speed estimation: From trends to speeds. | Huiqi Hu, Guoliang Li, Zhifeng Bao, Yan Cui, Jianhua Feng |
| 2016 | ICDE | Top-k spatio-textual similarity join. | Huiqi Hu, Guoliang Li, Zhifeng Bao, Jianhua Feng, Yongwei Wu, Zhiguo Gong, Yaoqiang Xu |
| 2016 | ICDE | Crowdsourced POI labelling: Location-aware result inference and Task Assignment. | Huiqi Hu, Yudian Zheng, Zhifeng Bao, Guoliang Li, Jianhua Feng, Reynold Cheng |
| 2015 | ICDE | Elaps: An efficient location-aware pub/sub system. | Long Guo, Lu Chen, Dongxiang Zhang, Guoliang Li, Kian-Lee Tan, Zhifeng Bao |
| 2015 | ICDE | Real time personalized search on social networks. | Yuchen Li, Zhifeng Bao, Guoliang Li, Kian-Lee Tan |
| 2015 | WWW | Towards An Interactive Keyword Search over Relational Databases. | Zhong Zeng, Zhifeng Bao, Mong-Li Lee, Tok Wang Ling |
| 2015 | SIGMOD | Exploratory Keyword Search with Interactive Input. | Zhifeng Bao, Yong Zeng, H. V. Jagadish, Tok Wang Ling |
| 2015 | SIGMOD | Location-Aware Pub/Sub System: When Continuous Moving Queries Meet Dynamic Event Streams. | Long Guo, Dongxiang Zhang, Guoliang Li, Kian-Lee Tan, Zhifeng Bao |
| 2014 | CIKM | ExpressQ: Identifying Keyword Context and Search Target in Relational Keyword Queries. | Zhong Zeng, Zhifeng Bao, Thuy Ngoc Le, Mong-Li Lee, Tok Wang Ling |
| 2014 | DEXA | Group-by and Aggregate Functions in XML Keyword Search. | Thuy Ngoc Le, Zhifeng Bao, Tok Wang Ling, Gillian Dobbie |
| 2014 | DEXA | Semantic Path Ranking Scheme for Relational Keyword Queries. | Zhong Zeng, Zhifeng Bao, Gillian Dobbie, Mong-Li Lee, Tok Wang Ling |
| 2014 | ER | Schema-Independence in XML Keyword Search. | Thuy Ngoc Le, Zhifeng Bao, Tok Wang Ling |
| 2014 | ICDE | Breaking out of the MisMatch trap. | Yong Zeng, Zhifeng Bao, Tok Wang Ling, H. V. Jagadish, Guoliang Li |
| 2013 | CIKM | Exploring XML data is as easy as using maps. | Yong Zeng, Zhifeng Bao, Guoliang Li, Tok Wang Ling |
| 2013 | DASFAA | MVP Index: Towards Efficient Known-Item Search on Large Graphs. | Ming Zhong, Mengchi Liu, Zhifeng Bao, Xuhui Li, Tieyun Qian |
| 2013 | DEXA | The Price Is Right - Models and Algorithms for Pricing Data. | Ruiming Tang, Huayu Wu, Zhifeng Bao, Stphane Bressan, Patrick Valduriez |
| 2013 | DEXA | Efficient XML Keyword Search: From Graph Model to Tree Model. | Yong Zeng, Zhifeng Bao, Tok Wang Ling, Guoliang Li |
| 2013 | EDBT | Supporting range queries in XML keyword search. | Yong Zeng, Zhifeng Bao, Tok Wang Ling |
| 2013 | ER | sonSchema: A Conceptual Schema for Social Networks. | Zhifeng Bao, Y. C. Tay, Jingbo Zhou |
| 2013 | ER | sonSQL: An Extensible Relational DBMS for Social Network Start-Ups. | Zhifeng Bao, Jingbo Zhou, Y. C. Tay |
| 2013 | ER | A Semantic Approach to Keyword Search over Relational Databases. | Zhong Zeng, Zhifeng Bao, Mong-Li Lee, Tok Wang Ling |
| 2013 | SIGIR | Removing the mismatch headache in XML keyword search. | Yong Zeng, Zhifeng Bao, Tok Wang Ling, Guoliang Li |
| 2012 | CIKM | Efficient provenance storage for relational queries. | Zhifeng Bao, Henning Khler, Liwei Wang, Xiaofang Zhou, Shazia Sadiq |
| 2012 | DASFAA | Fast Result Enumeration for Keyword Queries on XML Data. | Junfeng Zhou, Zhifeng Bao, Ziyang Chen, Tok Wang Ling |
| 2012 | DASFAA | Top-Down SLCA Computation Based on List Partition. | Junfeng Zhou, Zhifeng Bao, Ziyang Chen, Guoxiang Lan, Xudong Lin, Tok Wang Ling |
| 2012 | ICDE | Fast SLCA and ELCA Computation for XML Keyword Queries Based on Set Intersection. | Junfeng Zhou, Zhifeng Bao, Wei Wang, Tok Wang Ling, Ziyang Chen, Xudong Lin, Jingfeng Guo |
| 2012 | SIGMOD | iSearch: an interpretation based framework for keyword search in relational databases. | Zhong Zeng, Zhifeng Bao, Tok Wang Ling, Mong-Li Lee |
| 2012 | SIGMOD | MALEX: a MAp-like exploration model on XML database. | Yong Zeng, Zhifeng Bao, Tok Wang Ling, Luochen Li |
| 2011 | DASFAA | Storage and Use of Provenance Information for Relational Database Queries. | Zhifeng Bao, Henning Khler, Xiaofang Zhou, Tok Wang Ling |
| 2011 | ER | Object-Oriented XML Keyword Search. | Huayu Wu, Zhifeng Bao |
| 2010 | CIKM | XReal: an interactive XML keyword searching. | Zhifeng Bao, Jiaheng Lu, Tok Wang Ling |
| 2010 | DASFAA | An Effective Object-Level XML Keyword Search. | Zhifeng Bao, Jiaheng Lu, Tok Wang Ling, Liang Xu, Huayu Wu |
| 2010 | DASFAA | Efficient Label Encoding for Range-Based Dynamic XML Labeling Schemes. | Liang Xu, Tok Wang Ling, Zhifeng Bao, Huayu Wu |
| 2010 | DEXA | Reducing Graph Matching to Tree Matching for XML Queries with ID References. | Huayu Wu, Tok Wang Ling, Gillian Dobbie, Zhifeng Bao, Liang Xu |
| 2009 | DASFAA | Demonstrating Effective Ranked XML Keyword Search with Meaningful Result Display. | Zhifeng Bao, Bo Chen, Tok Wang Ling, Jiaheng Lu |
| 2009 | DASFAA | MCN: A New Semantics Towards Effective XML Keyword Search. | Junfeng Zhou, Zhifeng Bao, Tok Wang Ling, Xiaofeng Meng |
| 2009 | ICDE | Effective XML Keyword Search with Relevance Oriented Ranking. | Zhifeng Bao, Tok Wang Ling, Bo Chen, Jiaheng Lu |
| 2009 | WWW | Performing grouping and aggregate functions in XML queries. | Huayu Wu, Tok Wang Ling, Liang Xu, Zhifeng Bao |
| 2009 | SIGMOD | XML keyword query refinement. | Jiaheng Lu, Zhifeng Bao, Tok Wang Ling, Xiaofeng Meng |
| 2009 | SIGMOD | DDE: from dewey to a fully dynamic XML labeling scheme. | Liang Xu, Tok Wang Ling, Huayu Wu, Zhifeng Bao |
| 2008 | DASFAA | SemanticTwig: A Semantic Approach to Optimize XML Query Processing. | Zhifeng Bao, Tok Wang Ling, Jiaheng Lu, Bo Chen |
| 2007 | DEXA | A Dynamic Labeling Scheme Using Vectors. | Liang Xu, Zhifeng Bao, Tok Wang Ling |