Professor  Lei Chen

Lei Chen is a Chair Professor in Data Science and Analytics at HKUST (GZ), a Fellow of ACM and IEEE. Currently, he serves as the Dean of the Information Hub and the Director of the Big Data Institute at HKUST (GZ). Prof. Chen’s research spans several areas, including Data-driven AI, Big Data Analytics, the Metaverse, knowledge graphs, blockchain technology, data privacy, crowdsourcing, and spatial and temporal databases, as well as probabilistic databases. He earned his Ph.D. in Computer Science from the University of Waterloo, Canada.

Prof. Chen has received several prestigious awards, including the SIGMOD Test-of-Time Award in 2015 and the Best Research Paper Award at VLDB 2022. His team’s system also won the Excellent Demonstration Award at VLDB 2014. He served as the Program Committee Co-chair for VLDB 2019 and currently holds the position of Editor-in-Chief for IEEE Transactions on Data and Knowledge Engineering. In addition, he was the General Co-Chair of VLDB 2024 and will serve as the General Co-Chair of IJCAI China 2025.

• Optimizing Scalable LLM Inference: System-Level Strategies for Proactive KV Cache Management
  As large language models (LLMs) increasingly underpin mission-critical applications across industries, optimizing their inference efficiency has emerged as a critical priority. Central to...