Ph.D.: Department of Computer Science, Florida State University, USA. August 2007 - August 2011   


M.S.E.: School of Computer Science and Engineering, South China University of Technology, China. September 2004 - June 2007 


B.E.: School of Computer Science and Engineering, South China University of Technology, China. September 1999 - June 2003 

2011 --- now, Assistant Professor, Department of Computer Science and Engineering, Shanghai Jiao Tong University

Undergraduate course:
DB2 Principle and Application (spring semester) 
C++ Programming (fall semester)
Parallel and Distributed Programming (fall semester)


Postgraduate course: 
Cloud Computing (spring and fall semester) 

Secure Nearest Neighbor Revisited, by B. Yao, F. Li, X. Xiao
(To Appear) In Proceedings of 29th IEEE International Conference on Data Engineering (ICDE2013), Brisbane, Australia, April 2013.


Spatial Approximate String Search, by F. Li, B. Yao, M. Tang,  M. Hadjieleftheriou
(To Appear)IEEE Transactions on Knowledge and Data Engineering (IEEE TKDE), 2012.


Multi-Approximate-Keyword Routing in GIS Data, by B. Yao, M. Tang, F. Li
In Proceedings of 19th ACM SIGSPATIAL International Conference on Advances in Geographic Information Systems (ACM SIGSPATIAL GIS 2011), Chicago, Illinois, November 2011.


Flexible Aggregate Similarity Search, by Y. Li,  F. Li,  K. Yi,  B. Yao, M. Wang
In Proceedings of 30th ACM SIGMOD International Conference on Management of Data (SIGMOD2011), Athens, Greece, June 2011.


Optimal Location Queries in Road Network Databases, by X. Xiao, B. Yao, F. Li
In Proceedings of 27th IEEE International Conference on Data Engineering (ICDE2011), Hannover, Germany, April 2011. 


Group Enclosing Queries, by F. Li, B. Yao,  P. Kumar To appear in IEEE Transactions on Knowledge and Data Engineering (IEEE TKDE), 2011.


K Nearest Neighbor Queries and KNN-Joins in Large Relational Databases (Almost) for Free, by B. Yao, F. Li,  P. Kumar In Proceedings of 26th IEEE International Conference on Data Engineering (ICDE2010), Long Beach, California, March 2010.


Approximate String Search in Spatial Databases, by B. Yao, F. Li,  M. Hadjieleftheriou, K. Hou
In Proceedings of 26th IEEE International Conference on Data Engineering (ICDE2010), Long Beach, California, March 2010.


Reverse Furthest Neighbors in Spatial Databases, by B. Yao, F. Li,  P. Kumar
In Proceedings of 25th IEEE International Conference on Data Engineering (ICDE2009), Shanghai, China, April 2009. 

NSFC Grant, 2013 - 2015, PI
863 Key Project, 2011 - 2013, Main Investigator