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*__Email__: gcheng (AT) nju.edu.cn
*__Office__: Room 309, Building of Computer Science Technology, Nanjing University Xianlin Campus, 163 Xianlin Avenue, Nanjing 210023, China
*__Phone__: +86-25-89680923
*__Twitter__:[gong_cheng|https://twitter.com/gong_cheng]
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[中文|程龚]

Gong Cheng is a professor at the Department of Computer Science and Technology, Nanjing University. He received his PhD from Southeast University in 2010. His research interests include __big data search__, __knowledge graph__, and __neuro-symbolic computation__ with applications to __hybrid intelligent systems__ such as data search engines, decision support systems, and IT operations management systems. His research has been published in journals and at conferences including TKDE, WWW, SIGIR, AAAI, IJCAI, ACL, ISWC, and has received or been nominated for 6 best paper awards. He was a Posters & Demos co-chair of ISWC 2019.

At present, his research is focused on
* __data search engine__: a better data search engine, featuring data retrieval, ranking, summarization, browsing, recommendation, etc.;
* __knowledge graph search__: search algorithms for large knowledge graphs, e.g., efficient approximation algorithms for Steiner Tree problems;
* __complex question answering__: neuro-symbolic methods for question answering with applications to complex tasks such as high-school exams.

!!!Publications
*[My DBLP page|https://dblp.org/pid/69/1215-1.html]
*[My Google Scholar profile|https://scholar.google.com/citations?user=_ncKAiwAAAAJ]

!!!Awards
*CCKS 2021 Best Reviewer Award
*CIKM 2021 Best Reviewer Award
*ISWC 2021 Best Resource Paper Nominee
*ESWC 2020 Best Research Paper Award
*ESWC 2020 Best Resource Paper Nominee
*COLING 2018 Area Chair Favorites
*ISWC 2014 Best Research Paper Nominee
*ISWC 2011 Best Research Paper Nominee
*SWC 2010 Open Track Runner-up

!!!Services
!Chairing
*Posters & Demos co-chair of ISWC 2019
*Tutorial co-chair of JIST 2016
*Top conference review (co-)chair of CCKS 2017, 2020
*Co-organizer of EYRE 2018-2020
*Co-organizer of SumPre 2015-2016
!Area chair or senior PC member of
*ISWC 2022
*CIKM 2020-2022
*IJCKG 2021
*CCKS 2016, 2018, 2020
!PC member of
*WWW 2017-2022
*AAAI 2021-2022
*IJCAI 2022
*ISWC 2013-2021
*ESWC 2013-2014, 2017, 2019-2021
*EMNLP 2022
*COLING 2022
!Guest editor of
*JoWS SI on Knowledge Graphs and Information Retrieval
*NLPR SI on Information Extraction and NLP

!!!Hobbies
*[Traveling|https://mapsengine.google.com/map/edit?mid=zhNYIVHdeTCM.kUtDkqu0baRc]
*Photography
*Basketball