Cong Gao
Professor
College of Engineering

Cong Gao is currently a Professor with School of Computer Science and Engineering in Nanyang Technological University (NTU), and a co-director for Singtel Cognitive and Artificial Intelligence Lab for Enterprises@NTU (SCALE). Before joining NTU, he was an Assistant professor in Aalborg University, Denmark. Before that, he worked as a researcher at Microsoft Research Asia. From 2004 to 2006, he worked as a postdoc in University of Edinburgh. He received his Ph.D. in Computer Science from National University of Singapore in 2004. His general research interests are in Data Science. In particularly, his research focuses on geospatial data management, spatio-temporal data mining, recommendation, and mining social media. He has published in prestigious journals (e.g., VLDB Journal, TODS, TKDE) and conferences (e.g., VLDB, SIGMOD, ICDE, KDD, WSDM, SIGIR, WWW). His citation in Google Scholar was over 10000 with H-index 52.  He served as a PC co-chair for E&A track of VLDB 2014. He serves as a PC vice-Chair for ICDE’18. He is an associate editor for ACM Transactions on Database Systems (TODS) and the vice Chair of ACM KDD Singapore chapter.

Other affiliation(s)

Co-Director, Singtel Cognitive and Artificial Intelligence Lab for Enterprises (SCALE@NTU)

Expertise
Computer Science, Sociology, Information Science, Data mining

Research Interests
Data mining and large scale data analytics, Geospatial data management and geo-textual data management, Machine learning for spatial data management, Recommendation and social media mining, Spatial data mining and smart city

Research Category
Computer Science and Engineering
Potential NISTH Challenge Statements
Disruptive technology and materials, Leveraging technology for the societal good, Smart nation, Social physics
Related NTU2025 Research Clusters
Artificial & Augmented Intelligence
Related RIE2025 Domains
Human Health and Potential (HHP)
Related Humanity Grand Challenges
Addressing technology’s impact on humanity
Affiliated Sustainable Development Goals
GOAL 9: INDUSTRY, INNOVATION, AND INFRASTRUCTURE – Investments in infrastructure are crucial to achieving sustainable development.
The Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs), also known as the Global Goals, were adopted by all United Nations Member States in 2015 as a universal call to action to end poverty, protect the planet and ensure that all people enjoy peace and prosperity by 2030.
Last Updated
16 Apr 2020
Last Updated
11 Oct 2021