Selected Publications

2026ICML

DIYHealth Suite: Dataset, Model, and Benchmark for Health Management at Home

C. Liu, J. Wu, Z. Xie, W. Zhang, K. Zheng, J. Zhu, Q. Cai, G. A. Ooi, M. C. J. Tan, J. Yin, J. W. L. Yip, B. C. Ooi

2026ICASSP

DISCERN: Discrepancy Learning for Weakly Supervised Medical Image Segmentation

G. Su, K. Zheng, Y. Wang, J. Chen, S. Bing, S. Deng, H. Jiang

2025NeurIPS

Detecting Data Deviations in Electronic Health Records

K. Zheng, H. R. Chua, B. C. Ooi

2025KDD

CLEAR: Addressing Representation Contamination in Multimodal Healthcare Analytics

G. Su, K. Zheng, T. Zhao, J. Yin

2025ICML

NeuralCohort: Cohort-aware Neural Representation Learning for Healthcare Analytics

C. Liu, L. Zeng, K. Zheng, S. Cai, B. C. Ooi, J. W. L. Yip

2025Orbit

Orbital CT deep learning models in thyroid eye disease rival medical specialists' performance in optic neuropathy prediction in a quaternary referral center and revealed impact of the bony walls

S. W. Kheok, G. Hu, M.-H. H. Lee, C. P. Wong, K. Zheng, H. M. Htoon, Z. Lei, A. S. M. Tan, L. L. Chan, B. C. Ooi, L. L. Seah

2024ICML

Exploiting Negative Samples: A Catalyst for Cohort Discovery in Healthcare Analytics

K. Zheng, H. R. Chua, M. Herschel, H. V. Jagadish, B. C. Ooi, J. W. L. Yip

2024VLDB

CohortNet: Empowering Cohort Discovery for Interpretable Healthcare Analytics

Q. Cai, K. Zheng, H. V. Jagadish, B. C. Ooi, J. W. L. Yip

2024Digital Health

Development of a dental diet-tracking mobile app for improved caries-related dietary behaviours: Key features and pilot evaluation of quality

C. Goh, K. Zheng, W. Y. Chua, T. Nguyen, C. Liu, C. K. Koh, G. K. Y. Lee, C. M. Tay, B. C. Ooi, M. L. Wong

2023Frontiers in Endocrinology

Application of Artificial Intelligence in the Assessment of Thyroid Eye Disease (TED) - A Scoping Review

C. L. Chng, K. Zheng, A. K. Kwee, M.-H. H. Lee, D. Ting, C. P. Wong, G. Hu, B. C. Ooi, S. W. Kheok

2022VLDB

DyHealth: Making Neural Networks Dynamic for Effective Healthcare Analytics

K. Zheng, S. Cai, H. R. Chua, M. Herschel, M. Zhang, B. C. Ooi

2022CIKM

eDental: Managing Your Dental Care in Diet Diaries

K. Zheng, T. Nguyen, C. Liu, C. Goh, B. C. Ooi

2022ICDE

ELDA: Learning Explicit Dual-Interactions for Healthcare Analytics

Q. Cai, K. Zheng, B. C. Ooi, W. Wang, C. Yao

2021JMIR

Healthcare Analytics with Time-invariant and Time-variant Feature Importance to Predict Hospital-Acquired Acute Kidney Injury: Observational Longitudinal Study

H. R. Chua, K. Zheng, A. Vathsala, K. Y. Ngiam, H.-K. Yap, L. Lu, H.-Y. Tiong, A. Mukhopadhyay, G. MacLaren, S.-L. Lim, K Akalya, B. C. Ooi

2021MM

Towards Robust Cross-domain Image Understanding with Unsupervised Noise Removal

L. Zhu, Z. Luo, W. Wang, M. Zhang, G. Chen, K. Zheng

2021SIGMOD

PACE: Learning Effective Task Decomposition for Human-in-the-loop Healthcare Delivery

K. Zheng, G. Chen, M. Herschel, K. Y. Ngiam, B. C. Ooi, J. Gao

2021SIGMOD

ARM-Net: Adaptive Relation Modeling Network for Structured Data

S. Cai, K. Zheng, G. Chen, H. V. Jagadish, B. C. Ooi, M. Zhang

2021ICDE

MLCask: Efficient Management of Component Evolution in Collaborative Data Analytics Pipelines

Z. Luo, S. H. Yeung, M. Zhang, K. Zheng, L. Zhu, G. Chen, F. Fan, Q. Lin, K. Y. Ngiam, B. C. Ooi

2020SIGMOD

TRACER: A Framework for Facilitating Accurate and Interpretable Analytics for High Stakes Applications

K. Zheng, S. Cai, H. R. Chua, W. Wang, K. Y. Ngiam, B. C. Ooi

2017KAIS

A survey of query result diversification

K. Zheng, H. Wang, Z. Qi, J. Li, H. Gao

2017Handbook

Big Healthcare Data Analytics: Challenges and Applications

C. Lee, Z. Luo, K. Y. Ngiam, M. Zhang, K. Zheng, G. Chen, B. C. Ooi, J. W. L. Yip

2017KDD

Resolving the Bias in Electronic Medical Records

K. Zheng, J. Gao, K. Y. Ngiam, B. C. Ooi, J. W. L. Yip

2017CIKM

Capturing Feature-Level Irregularity in Disease Progression Modeling

K. Zheng, W. Wang, J. Gao, K. Y. Ngiam, B. C. Ooi, J. W. L. Yip

2015MM

SINGA: A Distributed Deep Learning Platform

B. C. Ooi, K.-L. Tan, S. Wang, W. Wang, Q. Cai, G. Chen, J. Gao, Z. Luo, A. K. H. Tung, Y. Wang, Z. Xie, M. Zhang, K. Zheng

Professional Service

Program Committee Member

• ICDE 2023, 2024, 2025, 2026, 2027
• ICML 2025, 2026
• ICLR 2025, 2026
• SIGKDD 2022, 2023, 2024, 2025, 2026
• AAAI 2021, 2022, 2024, 2025, 2026
• IJCAI 2023, 2024, 2025, 2026
• WWW 2026
• CIKM 2026
• AISTATS 2025, 2026
• ECML-PKDD (ADS) 2023, 2024, 2025, 2026
• ICMR 2026
• WSDM (Short Paper) 2026
• ACMMM 2025, 2026
• SISAP 2020, 2021, 2022, 2023, 2024, 2025, 2026
• BioDMS Workshop @ VLDB 2026
• VLDB 2022, 2025
• NeurIPS 2024, 2025
• ECAI 2025
• DASFAA (Demo Track) 2023, 2024, 2025
• ACM Multimedia Asia (Short Paper) 2025
• SIGKDD ADS 2023, 2024
• SDM 2024
• ICDE (PhD Symposium) 2023

Journal Reviewer

• ACM Trans. on Knowledge Discovery from Data
• ACM Trans. on Data Science
• ACM Journal of Data and Information Quality
• Artificial Intelligence in Medicine
• Applied Soft Computing
• Behavior Research Methods
• Biomedical Signal Processing and Control
• Biomolecules and Biomedicine
• BMC Medical Research Methodology
• Chemometrics and Intelligent Laboratory Systems
• Communications of the ACM
• Computer Vision and Image Understanding
• Computers in Biology and Medicine
• Engineering Applications of Artificial Intelligence
• Engineering Structures
• Expert Systems With Applications
• Frontiers in Nutrition
• Frontiers in Physics
• IEEE Trans. on Big Data
• IEEE Trans. on Cloud Computing
• IEEE Trans. on Knowledge and Data Engineering
• IEEE Trans. on Signal Processing
• Information Fusion
• Information Processing and Management
• iScience
• JMIR Medical Informatics
• Journal of Biomedical and Health Informatics
• Knowledge-Based Systems
• Nature Communications
• Neural Networks
• Neurocomputing
• Pattern Recognition
• Signa Vitae
• The VLDB Journal

Editorial Review Board Member

• Digital Health

Conference Session Chair

• VLDB 2022: Data Mining and Analytics

Invited Grant Reviewer

• Vidi Grant for the Dutch Research Council

Invited Talks

2026Advancing Contextual Intelligence in Healthcare: From Data Foundation to Clinical Discovery. SUTD.

2024Toward Healthcare Democratization: A Data Management Perspective. ETH.

2021Electronic Health Records Analytics in Hospital-Acquired AKI Prediction. Clinician-Scientist Talk, NUHS.

2018Towards Boosting Performance of Healthcare Analytics: Resolving Challenges in Electronic Medical Records. SoC Research Talk, NUS School of Computing.

2017Disease Progression Modelling for Chronic Kidney Disease - A Deep Learning Approach. Clinical Artificial Intelligence in the Age of Precision Medicine, NUHS.

Teaching

CS4225Massive Data Processing Techniques in Data Science. NUS, Teaching Assistant.

CS2102Database Systems. NUS, Teaching Assistant.

Awards

2025Outstanding Reviewer. KDD.

2024SIGMOD Systems Award. SIGMOD.

2022Best Demo Paper Award (Runner Up). CIKM.

2021Valedictorian Speech. NUS School of Computing.

2020IMDA Excellence Prize for Best Ph.D. Thesis. Singapore.

2018NUS Dean's Graduate Research Excellence Award. Singapore.

2017NUS Research Achievement Award. Singapore.