Philip S. Yu
Philip S. Yu is a computer scientist at the University of Illinois Chicago whose data-mining work includes network embedding. He earns Stanford master's and doctoral degrees in 1976 and 1978, and his career starts at IBM's Watson Research Center. From 2001 to 2004 he edits IEEE Transactions on Knowledge and Data Engineering, and in 2003 the IEEE International Conference on Data Mining gives him a research contributions award. A 2022 VLDB Test of Time award honors his coauthored 2011 PathSim paper, and as of October 2026 he is a Distinguished Professor at UIC.
- Works
- 2,532
- Citations
- 138,869
- h-index
- 168
Publication numbers from OpenAlex, as of 14 October 2026.
Timeline
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1976–1978
Stanford degrees and an IBM start
He earns master's and doctoral degrees at Stanford in 1976 and 1978. His career starts at IBM's Thomas J. Watson Research Center, where he eventually becomes manager of the Software Tools and Techniques group.
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2001–2004
Editing IEEE's data engineering journal
He edits IEEE Transactions on Knowledge and Data Engineering from 2001 to 2004. The IEEE International Conference on Data Mining gives him a research contributions award in 2003.
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2013
An IEEE Computer Society award
The IEEE Computer Society gives him its 2013 Technical Achievement Award for work on scalable indexing, querying, searching, mining and anonymization of big data.
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2016
An ACM SIGKDD innovation award
ACM SIGKDD gives him its 2016 Innovation Award for research on mining, fusion and anonymization of big data.
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2019
A network embedding paper
He co-authors a CIKM 2019 paper, Multi-Hot Compact Network Embedding.
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2019
An overseas award from CCF
CCF names him a 2019 recipient of its Overseas Outstanding Contribution Award.
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2022
A test-of-time award for PathSim
He and coauthors Yizhou Sun, Jiawei Han, Xifeng Yan and Tianyi Wu win the VLDB 2022 Test of Time award for their 2011 PathSim paper.
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As of October 2026
Distinguished professor and Wexler Chair
He is a Distinguished Professor and holds the Wexler Chair in Information Technology in the Department of Computer Science at the University of Illinois Chicago.
Sources and credits
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