Chenhao Ma

Dr. Chenhao Ma is an Assistant Professor at the School of Data Science, The Chinese University of Hong Kong, Shenzhen, where he works on large-scale data management and data mining. Previously, he was a Postdoctoral Fellow at the University of Hong Kong (2021–2022) and earned his PhD in Computer Science from the University of Hong Kong (2021) and B.Eng. from Shandong University (2017).

• Current research focuses on graph computing (dense subgraph discovery, motif analysis, graph learning), AI+DB (Text-to-SQL, vector search), and traffic data mining (trajectory analysis, outlier detection).
• He has published over 40 papers in top venues including SIGMOD, PVLDB, KDD and received the ACM SIGMOD Research Highlight Award 2021 and Best of SIGMOD 2020 (4/458).

Scientific Awards:

• ACM SIGMOD Research Highlight Award 2021
• Best of SIGMOD 2020 (4/458)
• Presidential Young Fellow at CUHK-Shenzhen (2023)
• Hong Kong and China Gas Scholarship (2019-2020)
• Reaching Out Award (2019)
• HKU Postgraduate Scholarship (2017-2021)
• ACM-ICPC Gold Medal (2015)
• National Scholarship (2014, 2015)

Advising and Research Team: He leads a team including Postdoc Dr. Yuanyuan Zeng, PhD students Lujie Ban, Yuwei Xu, and MPhil students Yi Yang, Yuyang Liang. Former mentees like Yichen Xu (PhD at Berkeley) and Jiayang Pang (Master at UC San Diego) have achieved academic placements.

Professional Service: He has served as PC member/reviewer for VLDB, KDD, ICDE, WWW, NeurIPS, TKDE, and guest editor for Applied Sciences and Frontiers in Big Data. He chairs sessions at ICDE and VLDB.