- Editorial Boards, Editors, and Guest Editors
- The Editor-in-Chief of ACM Transactions on Intelligent Systems and Technology (ACM TIST)
- Member of the Editorial Advisory Board of IEEE Spectrum
- Member of the Editorial Board of IEEE Transactions on Big Data
- Action Editor of GeoInformatica. Springer.
- Associate editor of Proceedings of the ACM on Interactive, Mobile, Wearable and Ubiquitous Technologies (IMWUT)
- Member of The Advisory Editorial Board of the International Journal on Ambient Intelligence and Smart Environments (ISBN 1876-1364)
Keynotes
- Keynote speech at the 17th International Symposium on Spatial and Temporal Databases (SSTD 2021), 2021.8
- Keynote speech at the 22nd IEEE International Conference on Mobile Data Management (MDM 2021), 2021.6
- Keynote Speech at the 28th IJCAI (IJCAI 2019), in IJCAI 2019 Industrial Days. Macao, China, 2019.8.15.
- Keynote speech at the 25th ACM SIGKDD (KDD-2019), in Plenary Keynote Panel: Democratization of Data Science. Anchorage, USA, 2019.8.7.
- Keynote speech at the 33rd AAAI Conference on Artificial Intelligence (AAAI-19). Hawaii, USA, 2019.1.27. [PPT] [Video]
- Keynote speech at the 12th International Conference on Intelligent Systems and Knowledge Engineering (ISKE 2017). Nanjing, China, Nov. 26, 2017.
- Keynote Speech at the 3rd IEEE International Conference on Spatial Data Mining and Geographical Knowledge Services (ICSDM2017). Wuhan, China, 2017.9.21
- Keynote Speech at the 2016 IEEE International Conference on Smart Data (SmartData 2016), Chengdu, China, 2016.12.16
- Keynote Speech at the 7th ACM SIGSPATIAL International Workshop on GeoStreaming (IWGS 2016), San Francisco, USA, 2016.10.31.
- Keynote Speech at the 24th IEEE International Requirements Engineering Conference (RE 2016), Beijing China, 2016.9.15
- Keynote Speech at the 10the IEEE International Conference on Big Data Science and Engineering (IEEE BIGDataSE 2016), Tianjin, China, 2016.8.24
- Keynote Speech at the 2nd International Conference of Young Computer Scientists, Engineers and Educators (ICYCSEE 2016), Harbin, China, 2016.8.20
- Keynote Speech at the 5th ACM SIGKDD International Workshop on Urban Computing (UrbComp 2016), San Francisco, USA, 2016.8.14
- Keynote Speech at the 2016 International Conference on Smart X (Smart X 2016), Dalian, China, 2016.7.30
- Keynote Speech at 15th China Conference on Machine Learning (CCML 2015), Chengdu, 2015.10.17.
- Keynote Speech at the 4th ACM SIGKDD International Workshop on Urban Computing (UrbComp 2015), Sydney, Australia, 2015.8.10
- Keynote Speech at the 2nd International Conference on Sustainable Urbanization (ICSU 2015), Hong Kong, 2015.1.
- Keynote speech at the 10th IEEE International conference on Intelligent Environment (IE 2014), Shanghai, China, July 2014.
- Keynote speech at the 9th International Workshop on Geographical Science (IWGS 2014), Beijing, China, June 2014.
- Keynote speech at the CCF forum on Urban Sensing and Computing, Hangzhou, China, 2014.6
- Keynote speech at the World Geospatial Developers Conference (WGDC 2014), Beijing, China, June 2014.
- Keynote speech at the MIT Sloan Technology Innovation and Entrepreneurship Forum, 2014.5.17
- Keynote speech at the Big Data and Internet Economy forum, 2014.4. Peking University.
- keynote speech at APEC smart city innovation & technology cooperation forum. Changzhou, China, April 10, 2014. (Link)
- Keynote speech at the International Symposium on Grids and Clouds (ISGC), Taipei, 2014.3
- Keynote speech at the 8th International Conference on Intelligent Systems and Knowledge Engineering (ISKE2013). Shenzhen, China, Nov. 21, 2013.
- Keynote speech at 2013 Chinese Conference of Complex Networks, Hangzhou, China, Sept. 15, 2013.
- Keynote speech at the World Geospatial Developers Conference (WGDC 2013), 2013.5.15, Beijing, China (over 2,500 audiences)
- Keynote speech at the China Annual Conference of GIS Theory and Methodology. 2012. Sept. Chengdu China.
Chairs
- Area Chair of the 36rd AAAI Conference on Artificial Intelligence (AAAI-22)
- Area Chair of the 35rd AAAI Conference on Artificial Intelligence (AAAI-21)
- Area Chair of the 34rd AAAI Conference on Artificial Intelligence (AAAI-20)
- Area Chair of the 33rd AAAI Conference on Artificial Intelligence (AAAI-19)
- Sponsorship Co-Chair of the 24nd ACM SIGKDD Conference on Knowledge Discovery and Data Mining (KDD 2018)
- PC Co-Chair of Industrial Track at the 23rd International Conference on Database Systems for Advanced Applications (DASFAA 2018)
- Co-Organizer of Data Science of China Forum at the 23nd ACM SIGKDD Conference on Knowledge Discovery and Data Mining (KDD 2017)
- General Co-Chair of the IEEE International Smart Cities Conference (ISC2 2017)
- PC Co-Chair of the International Conference on Information and Knowledge Management (CIKM 2017) – Case Study Track
- Program Co-Chair of the 6th ACM SIGKDD International Workshop on Urban Computing (UrbComp 2017)
- Sponsorship Co-Chair of the 22nd ACM SIGKDD Conference on Knowledge Discovery and Data Mining (KDD 2016)
- Co-Organizer of Data Science of China Forum at the 22nd ACM SIGKDD Conference on Knowledge Discovery and Data Mining (KDD 2016)
- Program Chair of the ACM SIGKDD China Forum: from Big data to AI, 2016.12.17
- Program Co-Chair of the 5th ACM SIGKDD International Workshop on Urban Computing (UrbComp 2016)
- Program Chair of the first ACM SIGKDD China Annual Conference (KDD China 2016)
- Program Chair of the Global Artificial Intelligence and Robots Summit (GAIR 2016)
- Area Chair of the IEEE International Conference on Data Mining (ICDM 2015)
- Program Chair of the 4th ACM SIGKDD International Workshop on Urban Computing (UrbComp 2015)
- Program chair of the 11th IEEE International Conference on Ubiquitous Intelligence and Computing (UIC 2014)
- Program chair of the 30th IEEE International Conference on Data Engineering (ICDE 2014) (Industrial Track)
- Industrial PC chair of Asia-Pacific Web Conference (APWeb 2014)
- Program Chair of the 3th ACM SIGKDD International Workshop on Urban Computing (UrbComp 2014)
- Demo chair of Spatial and Spatio-Temporal Databases (SSTD 2013)
- Publicity Chair of PAKDD 2014
- Program Chair of the 2nd ACM SIGKDD International Workshop on Urban Computing (UrbComp 2013)
- Chair of CCF Advanced Disciplines Lectures (ADL) on Urban Computing (Details)
- Session Chair of ACM SIGKDD conference onKnowledge Discovery and Data Mining (KDD 2012)(KDD 2016).
- Industrial Chair of the 14th ACM International Conference on Ubiquitous Computing (Ubicomp 2012)
- Program Chair of the 4th ACM International Workshop on Location-Based Social Networks (LBSN 2012)
- Program Chair of the ACM SIGKDD International Workshop on Urban Computing (UrbComp 2012)
- Session Chair of the ACM International Conference on Ubiquitous Computing (Ubicomp 2011)
- Program Chair of the Third ACM SIGSPATIAL International Workshop on Location-Based Social Networks (LBSN 2011)
- Local Chair of the ACM International Conference on Ubiquitous Computing (Ubicomp 2011)
- Session Chair of the IEEE International Conference on Ubiquitous Intelligences and Computing (UIC 2010)
- Session Chair of the second ACM SIGSPATIAL Workshop on Location-Based Social Networks (LBSN 2010)
- Program Chair of International Conference on Advances in Multimedia (MMEDIA 2009)
Program Committee
- Senior PC and PCs of ACM SIGKDD Conference on Knowledge Discovery and Data Mining (KDD 2012/2013/2014/2015/2016/2017/2018)
- Senior PC and PCs of American Association of Artificial Intelligence conference (AAAI 2014)(AAAI 2015)(AAAI 2016)(AAAI 2017)(AAAI 2018)
- International Joint Conference on Artificial Intelligence (IJCAI 2011)
- Senior PC of SIAM International Conference on Data Mining (SDM 2013)(SDM 2014)(SDM 2017)(SDM 2018)
- PC of the ACM International Conference on Ubiquitous Computing (Ubicomp 2011)
- PC of the ACM International Conference on Web Search and Data Mining (WSDM 2013) (WSDM 2014)
- PC of the IEEE International Conference on Data Mining (ICDM 2013) (ICDM 2014)(ICDM 2016)(ICDM 2017)
- Senior PC of Asia-Pacific Conference on Knowledge Discovery and Data Mining (PAKDD 2012) (2013)(2014)(2015)(2016)(2017)
- Best paper awarding committee PAKDD 2017
- ACM SIGSPATIAL International Conference on Geographic Information Systems (GIS 2017)(2016)(2015)(2014) (2013) (2011) (2010)
- PC of the European Conference on Machine Learning and Principles and Practice of Knowledge Discovery in Databases (ECML-PKDD 2015)
- PC of the Extending Database Technology 2012 (EDBT 2013)
- IEEE International Conference on Mobile Data Management (MDM 2010)(2012)(2013)(2014)(2015)(2016)
- International Symposium on Spatial and Temporal Database (SSTD 2011) (SSTD 2013)(SSTD 2015)(SSTD 2017)
- IEEE international conference on Big Data (BigData 2013) (BigData 2014)
- International Conference on Database Systems For Advanced Applications (DASFAA 2011)
- International Conference on Database and Expert Systems Applications (DEXA 2013/2012/2011/2010/2009)
- Australasian Database Conference (ADC 2012) (ADC 2011) (ADC 2010)
- IEEE International Conference on Ubiquitous Intelligences and Computing (UIC 2012) (UIC 2011) (UIC 2010)
- ACM International Conference on Mobile and Ubiquitous Mutilmedia (MUM 2010) (MUM 2009) (MUM 2008)
- International conference on Mobile Computing, Applications, and Services (MobiCASE 2011) (MobiCASE 2010)
- International Conference on Web Information Systems Engineering (WISE 2009) (WISE 2008)
- ACM Multimedia: Location-based and mobile multimedia Track (ACM MM 2011)
Tutorials
- Urban Computing, at DASFFA 2017, KDD 2017.
- Location-based social networks, at WWW 2012, 2012.4
- Computing with Spatial Trajectories, at ACM SIGPSPATIAL 2011.11
Panelists
- How DB meets AI, DASFFA 2017.
- Roundtable of Thought Leaders on Innovation in Cities: (Video of my presentation)
- Panel on the Technology for connected cities, at EmTech’13
- Early Career Panel, at Spatial and Spatio-Temporal Databases (SSTD 2011).
- Mobile applications, Wireless China Industry Summit 2010
- Location-Based Services, Wireless China Industry Summit 2009
- Location-Based Services, Wireless China Industry Summit 2008