2026 Ben Kao: Computer Science Researcher – H-Index, Publications & Awards

Discipline name	D-Index	World Ranking	Current World Ranking	National Ranking	Current National Ranking	Publications	Citations
Computer Science	47	6453	6264	860	854	151	9591

Overview

Ben Kao is affiliated with the University of Hong Kong in China and has contributed extensively to the field of computer science, with a focus on artificial intelligence and related subfields. Their work covers a variety of topics, including topic modeling, natural language processing techniques, advanced graph neural networks, and applications of artificial intelligence in law.

The scientist's main fields of study include:

Computer Science

Within computer science, their research spans subfields such as:

Artificial Intelligence
Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition
Political Science and International Relations
Computer Networks and Communications
Information Systems

Their research topics are diverse and focus on:

Topic Modeling
Natural Language Processing Techniques
Advanced Graph Neural Networks
Artificial Intelligence in Law
Data Quality and Management
Speech and dialogue systems
Intelligent Tutoring Systems and Adaptive Learning

Ben Kao has published in numerous venues, with frequent appearances in:

arXiv (Cornell University)
IEEE Transactions on Knowledge and Data Engineering
Proceedings of the VLDB Endowment
Information Sciences
Proceedings of the 31st ACM International Conference on Information & Knowledge Management

Notable recent papers include:

"SCHAIN-IRAM: An Efficient and Effective Semi-Supervised Clustering Algorithm for Attributed Heterogeneous Information Networks," 2020, IEEE Transactions on Knowledge and Data Engineering
"Distributed PageRank computation with improved round complexities," 2022, Information Sciences
"Automatic Meta-Path Discovery for Effective Graph-Based Recommendation," 2022, Proceedings of the 31st ACM International Conference on Information & Knowledge Management
"ZeroEA: A Zero-Training Entity Alignment Framework via Pre-Trained Language Model," 2024, Proceedings of the VLDB Endowment
"Perturbed Masking: Parameter-free Probing for Analyzing and Interpreting BERT," 2020, arXiv (Cornell University)

Frequent collaborators accompanying Ben Kao's research efforts include:

Tien-Hsuan Wu
Reynold Cheng
Yongxi Chen
Guowen Yuan
Deliang Wang

The scope of Ben Kao's research reflects a broad engagement with computational methods applicable to intelligent systems, data analysis, and machine learning techniques across both theoretical and applied dimensions.

Best Publications

Secure kNN computation on encrypted databases

Wai Kit Wong;David Wai-lok Cheung;Ben Kao;Nikos Mamoulis

1090
Citations
A General Incremental Technique for Maintaining Discovered Association Rules

David Wai-Lok Cheung;Sau Dan Lee;Ben Kao

654
Citations
Mining frequent itemsets from uncertain data

Chun-Kit Chui;Ben Kao;Edward Hung

525
Citations
Decision Trees for Uncertain Data

Smith Tsang;Ben Kao;Kevin Y Yip;Wai-Shing Ho

445
Citations
Indexing multi-dimensional uncertain data with arbitrary probability density functions

Yufei Tao;Reynold Cheng;Xiaokui Xiao;Wang Kay Ngai

395
Citations
An overview of real-time database systems

Ben Kao;Ben Kao;Héctor García-Molina

367
Citations
Efficient Clustering of Uncertain Data

Wang Ngai;Ben Kao;Chun Chui;Reynold Cheng

354
Citations
Deadline assignment in a distributed soft real-time system

H. Kao;H. Garcia-Molina

347
Citations
Uncertain data mining: an example in clustering location data

Michael Chau;Reynold Cheng;Ben Kao;Jackey Ng

290
Citations
Naive Bayes Classification of Uncertain Data

Jiangtao Ren;Sau Dan Lee;Xianlu Chen;Ben Kao

277
Citations
Deadline assignment in a distributed soft real-time system

B. Kao;H. Garcia-Molina

233
Citations
Applying update streams in a soft real-time database system

B. Adelberg;H. Garcia-Molina;B. Kao

222
Citations
Mining periodic patterns with gap requirement from sequences

Minghua Zhang;Ben Kao;David W. Cheung;Kevin Y. Yip

200
Citations
Perturbed Masking: Parameter-free Probing for Analyzing and Interpreting BERT

Zhiyong Wu;Yun Chen;Ben Kao;Qun Liu

190
Citations
A decremental approach for mining frequent itemsets from uncertain data

Chun-Kit Chui;Ben Kao

173
Citations
Security in outsourcing of association rule mining

W. K. Wong;David W. Cheung;Edward Hung;Ben Kao

160
Citations
On querying historical evolving graph sequences

Chenghui Ren;Eric Lo;Ben Kao;Xinjie Zhu

160
Citations
Clustering Uncertain Data Using Voronoi Diagrams and R-Tree Index

Ben Kao;Sau Dan Lee;Foris K F Lee;David W Cheung

133
Citations
Neural enquirer: learning to query tables in natural language

Pengcheng Yin;Zhengdong Lu;Hang Li;Ben Kao

132
Citations
Modeling splice sites with Bayes networks

Deyou Cai;Arthur L. Delcher;Ben Kao;Simon Kasif

129
Citations

Frequent Co-Authors

David W. Cheung University of Hong Kong

Reynold Cheng University of Hong Kong

Hector Garcia-Molina Stanford University

Kevin Y. Yip Chinese University of Hong Kong

Nikos Mamoulis University of Ioannina

Martin Ester Simon Fraser University

Michael Chau University of Hong Kong

Sunil Prabhakar Purdue University West Lafayette

Daniel Barbará George Mason University

Xiaokui Xiao National University of Singapore

External Links

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