Li Xiong

May 2020:  We are starting a new project REACT: Real-time Contact Tracing and Risk Monitoring via Privacy-enhanced Mobile Tracking in collaboration with USC and UT Health!

December 2019: The white paper Advances and Open Problems in Federated Learning is available on arxiv! Kudos to Google for leading this amazing team effort following the Workshop on Federated Learning and Analytics in June!

October 2019: Honored to be named ACM distinguished member. Many thanks to my endorsers, students, collaborators who made it possible!

October 2019: We received 1st Place in the 2019 iDASH Privacy & Secuity Competition blockchain track!  Congratulations Mark and Yang!

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Li Xiong is a Professor of Computer Science and 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, all in Computer Science. She and her research lab, Assured Information Management and Sharing (AIMS), conduct research on algorithms and methods for big data management, machine learning, and data privacy and security, in the context of spatiotemporal and health data. She has published over 130 papers and received six best paper (runner up) awards. She has served and serves as associate editor for IEEE Transactions on Knowledge and Data Engineering (TKDE), Very Large Database Journals (VLDBJ), IEEE Transactions on Dependable and Secure Computing (TDSC), program co-chair for ACM SIGSPATIAL 2018, 2020, IEEE Big Data 2020, program vice-chair for IEEE International Conference on Data Engineering (ICDE) 2020, and on many program committees for data science and data security conferences. Her research is supported by National Science Foundation (NSF), AFOSR (Air Force Office of Scientific Research), National Institute of Health (NIH), and Patient-Centered Outcomes Research Institute (PCORI). She is also a recipient of Google Research Award, IBM Smarter Healthcare Faculty Innovation Award, Cisco Research Award, AT&T Research Gift, and Woodrow Wilson Career Enhancement Fellowship.