Dr. Kunpeng Liu is an assistant professor in the School of Computing at Clemson University. Before that, he was an assistant professor at Portland State University. He received his Ph.D. degree from the Department of Computer Science, University of Central Florida, Orlando, FL. He received both an M.E. degree and a B.E. degree from the Department of Automation, University of Science and Technology of China (USTC), Hefei.

He has broad interests in data-centric AI (DCAI), large language models (LLMs), and reinforcement learning (RL), especially in efficient fine-tuning and effective reasoning of LLMs, with application to big data problems, including traceable and explainable feature engineering, reasoning on recommender systems, and spatiotemporal user behavior analysis. He has published more than 80 papers in refereed journals and conference proceedings. He serves as AC/SPC/PC for various conferences, including ICML, ICLR, NeurIPS, KDD, ICDM, SDM, WWW, CIKM, IJCAI, and AAAI. He has co-organized one tutorial and five workshops on DCAI. He is the Social Media Co-Chair for ICDM 2025, Financial Chair of IEEE ICKG 2024, and Registration Co-Chair of IEEE BigData 2024. He is a recipient of the Best Paper Runner-up Award from IEEE ICDM 2021. He is a recipient of the NSF CRII Award.

News

• 07/2025 Served on an NSF Panel.

• 07/2025 One paper was accepted by CIKM 2025.

• 07/2025 One paper was accepted by ACM Transactions on Knowledge Discovery from Data.

• 06/2025 One paper was accepted by SIGdial 2025 with Henry Xie (Senior at Westview High School) as the first author. Well done, Henry!

• 06/2025 Jinghan Zhang will intern at Accenture.

• 05/2025 Two papers were accepted by ACL 2025.

• 05/2025 One paper was accepted by KDD 2025.

• 05/2025 Invited as a Social Media Co-Chair for ICDM 2025.

• 05/2025 Our workshop proposal "GeoGenAgent: The 1st International Workshop on Generative and Agentic AI for Multi-Modality Space-Time Intelligence" has been accepted by ACM SIGSPATIAL 2025.

• 04/2025 Six papers were accepted by IJCAI 2025.

• 03/2025 Our workshop proposal "AI4DE: The 1st International Workshop on AI for Data Editing" has been accepted by KDD 2025.

• 03/2024 Our workshop proposal "ADSD: The 1st Workshop on AI-Ready Data for Science Discovery" has been accepted by ICDM 2025.

• 01/2025 Served on an NSF Panel.

• 12/2024 Jinghan Zhang won the Best Poster Presentation Award at the IEEE BigData 2024 PhD Forum. Congratulations to Jinghan!

• 12/2024 Three papers were accepted by AAAI 2025.

• 12/2024 Invited as an Area Chair for ICML 2025.

• 11/2024 Our paper "Scoring with Large Language Models: A Study on Measuring Empathy of Responses in Dialogues" was accepted by the IEEE BigData 2024 Undergraduate and High School Symposium. Henry Xie is the first author and he is a junior student at Westview High School, Portland. This paper has been selected as the Best Paper and won Henry the AI Youth Star Award. Well done, Henry!

• 10/2024 Two papers were accepted by IEEE ICKG 2024.

• 08/2024 Our NSF proposal "Collaborative Research: III: Small: Closing Sim-to-Real Gap in Reinforcement Learning via Randomization, Alignment, and Derivation" (my role: Lead PI) was awarded. Thank you, NSF!

• 07/2024 Our tutorial "Tabular Data-centric AI: Challenges, Techniques and Future Perspectives" was accepted by CIKM 2024.

• 07/2024 One paper was accepted by CIKM 2024.

• 06/2024 Honored to receive the NSF CRII Award!

• 05/2024 Honored to receive the Wedge Award for Excellence in Graduate Advising and Mentoring!

• 05/2024 One paper was accepted by ACL 2024.

• 04/2024 Two papers were accepted by IJCAI 2024.

• 04/2024 New homepage released.