Guoliang Li
Professor
Works on database systems, human-machine collaborative crowd computing, spatio-temporal data processing, and the fusion of AI and databases.
Guoliang Li's lab at Tsinghua works on time series, anomaly & spatio-temporal data, data management & big data and human-AI collaboration & trust. 102 papers since 2023, 84 at top venues, mostly VLDB and SIGMOD. 13 PhD students and 2 master's students. 32 alumni, most often to Google and Huawei. Applications close .
At a glance
- papers, 2023–2026
- 27/ year
- at T1 venues
- 82%
- PhD students
- 13
- MS students
- 2
- alumni listed
- 32
Papers by yearfrom the lab homepage, 2023–2026
- 21 papers2026 · T1 18 · collecting
- 28 papers2025 · T1 26
- 32 papers2024 · T1 23
- 21 papers2023 · T1 17
T1 venuesOtherVenues: VLDB, SIGMOD, ICDE, TKDE, IJCAI
Research focuspaper titles that use each topic's words
- Data management & big data35 papers
- Time series, anomaly & spatio-temporal data27 papers
- Human-AI collaboration & trust1 paper
- database systems0 papers
- crowd0 papers
Paper list
From the lab homepage.
202621 papers
- VLDB (T1)A Topology-Aware Localized Update Strategy for Graph-Based ANN Index
- SIGMOD (T1)AgenticScholar: Agentic Data Management with Pipeline Orchestration for Scholarly Corpora
- SIGMOD (T1)Automating Database-Native Function Code Synthesis with LLMs
- VLDB (T1)Bridging NL2SQL for CAN Signal Analytics at NIO: From Externalized Schemas to CTE Pipelines
- SIGMOD (T1)Bridging the Gap: Cardinality Estimation for Semantic Queries on Unstructured Data
- VLDB (T1)Data Management for Agentic Memory: Foundations, Systems, and Challenges
- VLDB (T1)DBAIOps: A Reasoning LLM-Enhanced Database Operation and Maintenance System using Knowledge Graphs
- VLDB (T1)Dial: A Knowledge-Grounded Dialect-Specific NL2SQL System
- SIGMOD (T1)MoDora: Tree-Based Semi-Structured Document Analysis System
- New PdfMVGPT: Generative Materialized View Forecasting
- VLDB (T1)OpenSQL: Boosting Text-to-SQL with Schema-Aware Learning and Reasoning-Enhanced SQL Generation
- New PdfPAT: Towards Transaction Routing with Page Affinity in Shared-Cache Databases
202528 papers
- TKDE (T1)A Lightweight Learned Cardinality Estimation Model
- TKDE (T1)A Survey of Text-to-SQL in the Era of LLMs: Where Are We, and Where Are We Going?
- CIDRAOP: Automated and Interactive LLM Pipeline Orchestration for Answering Complex Queries
- VLDB (T1)AutoPrep: Natural Language Question-Aware Data Preparation with a Multi-Agent Framework
- ICDE (T1)CloudyBench: A Testbed for A Comprehensive Evaluation of Cloud-Native Databases
- TKDE (T1)CMVC+: A Multi-View Clustering Framework for Open Knowledge Base Canonicalization Via Contrastive Learning
- VLDB (T1)Concurrency Control as a Service
- TODS (T1)Cost-effective Missing Value Imputation for Data-effective Machine Learning
- SIGMOD (T1)Cracking SQL Barriers: An LLM-based Dialect Translation System
- SIGMOD (T1)D-Bot: An LLM-Powered DBA Copilot
- SIGMOD (T1)Data+AI: LLM4Data and Data4LLM
- VLDB (T1)Database Perspective on LLM Inference Systems
202432 papers
- ICDE (T1)A CXL-Powered Database System: Opportunities and Challenges
- TKDE (T1)Automatic Index Tuning: A Survey
- VLDB (T1)Breaking It Down: An In-depth Study of Index Advisors
- VLDBJCardinality estimation using normalizing flow
- VLDB DemoChat2Data: An Interactive Data Analysis System with RAG, Vector Databases and LLMs
- TKDE (T1)Cloud-Native Databases: A Survey
- VLDB (T1)Combining Small Language Models and Large Language Models for Zero-Shot NL2SQL
- VLDB (T1)Contributions Estimation in Federated Learning: A Comprehensive Experimental Evaluation
- SIGMOD (T1)Controllable Tabular Data Synthesis Using Diffusion Models
- ICDE (T1)Cost-Effective In-Context Learning for Entity Resolution: A Design Space Exploration
- VLDB (T1)D-Bot: Database Diagnosis System using Large Language Models
- —DB‐GPT: Large Language Model Meets Database
202321 papers
- VLDB (T1)A Deep Generative Model for Trajectory Modeling and Utilization
- VLDB DemoA Learned Query Rewrite System
- DASFAAACR-Tree: Constructing R-Trees Using Deep Reinforcement Learning
- ICDE (T1)AutoCE: An Accurate and Efficient Model Advisor for Learned Cardinality Estimation
- TKDE (T1)Automatic Database Knob Tuning: A Survey
- VLDB (T1)Coresets over Multiple Tables for Feature-rich and Data-efficient Machine Learning
- VLDB (T1)Cost-based or Learning-based? A Hybrid Query Optimizer for Query Plan Selection
- TKDE (T1)Data Management for Machine Learning: A Survey
- ICDE (T1)DBAugur: An Adversarial-based Trend Forecasting System for Diversified Workloads
- ICDE (T1)Dynamic Materialized View Management using Graph Neural Network
- VLDB (T1)FEBench: A Benchmark for Real-Time Relational Data Feature Extraction
- SIGMOD (T1)GeoGauss: Strongly Consistent Coordinator-Free OLTP for Geo-Replicated SQL Database
Where alumni went32 listed, 46% to industry
Industry 6Academia 7
Most often to
- Huawei
- Baidu
Also to
- Beijing Jiaotong University
- Renmin University of China
- Renmin University of China.
Apply to TsinghuaFall 2027
Computer Science PhD (international applicants)
- Round
- Main
- Opens
- GRE
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- English
- Per school catalog
- Fee
- RMB 800
Not yet confirmed for this intake.
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