SIGKDD Awards

The 2022 SIGKDD Rising Star Award is presented to Jundong Li. Jundong Li is an Associate Professor at the University of Virginia with appointments in the Department of Electrical and Computer Engineering and the Department of Computer Science. Since the summer of 2022, he has also been a part-time LinkedIn Research Scholar. His research interests are generally in data mining, machine learning, and AI in general, with a focus on graph machine learning, trustworthy/safe machine learning, and large language models. He has published over 150 papers in high-impact venues, with over 15,000 citation count. He has won several prestigious awards, including PAKDD Best Paper Award (2024), PAKDD Early Career Research Award (2023), NSF CAREER Award (2022), SIGKDD Best Research Paper Award (2022), JP Morgan Chase Faculty Research Award (2021 & 2022), and Cisco Faculty Research Award (2021), among others. His group's research is generously supported by NSF (CAREER, III, SaTC, SAI, S&CC), DOE, ONR, Commonwealth Cyber Initiative, Jefferson Lab, JP Morgan, Cisco, Netflix, and Snap.