Qin (Christine) Lv Professor Department of Computer Science University of Colorado Boulder 430 UCB Boulder, CO 80309-0430 USA Tel:  +1 (303) 492-8821 Fax: +1 (303) 492-2844 Office: Engineering Center ECCR 1B24 Email:

About

Qin Lv is a professor in the Department of Computer Science, University of Colorado Boulder. She received a B.E. with honors from the Department of Computer Science & Technology, Tsinghua University, an MA and a Ph.D. from the Department of Computer Science, Princeton University. Her Ph.D. thesis advisor was Professor Kai Li.

Research Interests

Qin Lv's research focuses on full-stack data analytics, which integrates systems, algorithms, and applications for effective and efficient data analytics in ubiquitous computing and scientific discovery. Topics of interest include mobile/wearable computing, social networks, spatial-temporal data, anomaly/misbehavior detection, similarity search, recommender systems, etc. Her research is interdisciplinary in nature and interacts closely with a variety of research domains including environmental research, Earth sciences, renewable and sustainable energy, electrified transportation, as well as the information needs in people's daily lives.

For more information, please see the Research and Publications pages.

Honors and Awards

• SenSys 2018 Best Paper Runner-up Award
• 2017 Google Faculty Research Award
• VLDB 2017 Ten Year Best Paper Award
• ICTAI 2017 Best Student Paper Award
• Mobiquitous 2014 Best Paper Award Nomination
• Pervasive 2012 Computational Sustainability Award
• ISLPED 2010 Best Paper Award Nomination

Professional Activities (Recent)

• UbiComp 2021: The 2021 ACM international joint conference on pervasive and ubiquitous computing. General Co-chair.
• IMWUT: Proceedings of the ACM on Interactive, Mobile, Wearable and Ubiquitous Technologies. Associate Editor (2016-2021).
• MobiSys: International Conference on Mobile Systems, Applications, and Services. Technical Program Committee (2016, 2017, 2019, 2020, 2021). External Review Committee (2015, 2018). Workshop Chair (2020). Virtual Arrangements Co-chair (2021).
• PerCom: IEEE International Conference on Pervasive Computing and Communications. Technical Program Committee (2013, 2015, 2016, 2017, 2018, 2019, 2020, 2021). TPC Vice Co-chair (2022).
• SenSys: ACM Conference on Embedded Networked Sensor Systems. Publication Chair (2015). Technical Program Committee (2018). External Technical Program Committee (2019).
• ICDCS 2019: The 39th IEEE International Conference on Distributed Computing Systems. Technical Program Committee.
• CyberSafety: Internal Workshop on Computational Methods in CyberSafety. General Co-Chair (2016, 2019), TPC Co-Chair (2017).
• HotMobile: International Workshop on Mobile Computing Systems and Applications. Technical Program Committee (2015, 2017), Technical Program Committee Chair (2020).
• SIGIR: Annual ACM SIGIR Confernece on Research and Development in Information Retrieval. Technical Program Committee (2018, 2019).
• WSDM: ACM International Conference on Web Search and Data Mining. Technical Program Committee (2017).
• UbiComp: ACM International Conference on Ubiquitous Computing. Technical Program Committee (2012, 2013, 2014, 2016).
• MobiCom: International Conference on Mobile Computing and Networking. Publication Chair (2016).
• Mobiquitous: International Conference on Mobile and Ubiquitous Systems: Computing, Networking and Services. Technical Program Committee (2014, 2016).
• WI: IEEE/WIC/ACM International Conference on Web Intelligence. Technical Program Committee (2012, 2015).
• MobiCASE: International Conference on Mobile Computing, Applications and Services. Technical Program Committee (2014).
• WWW: International World Wide Web Conference. Technical Program Committee (2014).
• RMCWiC: Rocky Mountain Celebration of Women in Computing. Registration Chair (2012, 2014, 2016, 2018).
• SIGMETRICS: ACM SIGMETRICS International Conference on Measurement and Modeling of Computer Systems. Technical Program Committee (2011, 2012, 2013).

News

• Job announcement: ASPIRE Student Assistant