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Research Interests
Wenfei Fan's current research interests include database theory and systems, in particular big data, data quality, data sharing, distributed query processing, query languages, recommender systems and social media marketing.
Qualifications
| 1999 | PhD in Computer and Information Science, University of Pennsylvania |
| 1988 | MS in Computer Science, Peking University |
| 1985 | BS in Computer Science, Peking University |
Biography
Wenfei Fan is the Chair of Web Data Management in the School of Informatics, University of Edinburgh, UK. He is a Fellow of the Royal Society (FRS), a Fellow of the Royal Society of Edinburgh (FRSE), a Member of the Academy of Europe (MAE), an ACM Fellow (FACM), and a Foreign Member of Chinese Academy of Sciences. He received his PhD from the University of Pennsylvania (USA), and his MSc and BSc from Peking University (China). He is a recipient of Royal Society Wolfson Research Merit Award in 2018, ERC Advanced Grant in 2015, the Roger Needham Award in 2008 (UK), the Career Award in 2001 (USA), and several Test-of-Time and Best Paper Awards (Alberto O. Mendelzon Test-of-Time Award of ACM PODS 2015 and 2010, Best Paper Awards for SIGMOD 2017, VLDB 2010, ICDE 2007 and Computer Networks 2002).
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Extracting Graphs Properties with Semantic Joins
Cao, Y., Fan, W., Fu, W., Jin, R., Ou, W. & Li, W., 26 Jul 2023, 2023 IEEE 39th International Conference on Data Engineering (ICDE). IEEE, p. 2262-2275 14 p. (International Conference on Data Engineering).Research output: Chapter in Book/Report/Conference proceeding › Conference contribution
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Transaction Scheduling: From Conflicts to Runtime Conflicts
Cao, Y., Fan, W., Ou, W., Xie, R. & Zhao, W., 30 May 2023, In: Proceedings of the ACM on Management of Data. 1, 1, p. 1-26 26.Research output: Contribution to journal › Article › peer-review
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Bounded Evaluation: Querying Big Data with Bounded Resources
Cao, Y., Fan, W. & Yuan, T., 1 Aug 2020, In: International Journal of Automation and Computing. 17, 4, p. 502–526 20 p.Research output: Contribution to journal › Article › peer-review
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Querying Shared Data with Security Heterogeneity
Cao, Y., Fan, W., Wang, Y. & Yi, K., 11 Jun 2020, Proceedings of the International Conference on Management of Data 2020 (SIGMOD '20). Association for Computing Machinery (ACM), p. 575-585 11 p.Research output: Chapter in Book/Report/Conference proceeding › Conference contribution
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Block as a Value for SQL over NoSQL
Cao, Y., Fan, W. & Yuan, T., 1 Jun 2019, Proceedings of the VLDB Endowment: Proceedings of the 45th International Conference on Very Large Data Bases, Los Angeles, California. 10 ed. Very Large Data Base Endowment Inc., Vol. 12. p. 1153-1166 14 p. (Proceedings of the VLDB Endowment; vol. 12, no. 10).Research output: Chapter in Book/Report/Conference proceeding › Conference contribution
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Prizes
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Best Demo Award for VLDB 2017
Fan, Wenfei (Recipient), 2017
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Best Paper Award for ICDE 2007
Fan, Wenfei (Recipient), 2007
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Best Paper Award for VLDB 2010
Fan, Wenfei (Recipient), 2010
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Research collaboration on dependency theory
Non-EU industry, commerce and public corporations
1/09/17 → 1/02/24
Project: Research
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Distributed Data Management and Processing Laboratory
Non-EU industry, commerce and public corporations
1/01/17 → 30/09/24
Project: Research
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A research collaboration in data management
Cao, Y., Buneman, P. & Fan, W.
Non-EU industry, commerce and public corporations
1/09/20 → 31/08/23
Project: Research
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Research collaboration in graph computation
Non-EU industry, commerce and public corporations
1/06/18 → 31/05/21
Project: Research
Press/Media
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Several Edinburgh profs appointed fellows of Royal Society of Edinburgh
Ian Bryden, Peter Clarke, Wenfei Fan & James Ironside
24/03/11
1 item of Media coverage
Press/Media: Research