Wenfei Fan

Wenfei Fan
Native name 樊文飞
Institutions University of Edinburgh
Alma mater University of Pennsylvania[1]
Peking University
Thesis

Path Constraints for Databases with or without Schemas

PhD Dissertation (1999)
Doctoral advisor Peter Buneman, Scott Weinstein[1]
Notable awards

FRSE (2011)[2]
FACM (2012)
ACM PODS Alberto O. Mendelzon Test-of-Time Award (2010, 2015)[3]
Best VLDB 2010 Paper Award[4]
Roger Needham Award (2008)

Best ICDE 2007 Paper Award
Website
homepages.inf.ed.ac.uk/wenfei/

Wenfei Fan (Chinese: 樊文飞) is a computer scientist who works in database theory and database systems. He is a professor at the University of Edinburgh, and holds the Chair of Web Data Management in the School of Informatics.[5] He is also the director of the International Center on Big Data at Beihang University.[6]

Fan won the Roger Needham Award in 2008 and is an ACM Fellow.[7]

References

  1. 1 2 Wenfei Fan at the Mathematics Genealogy Project
  2. ↑ "Current Fellows in Alphabetical Order" (PDF). Royal Society of Edinburgh. Retrieved 1 January 2015.
  3. ↑ "ACM PODS Alberto O. Mendelzon Test-of-Time Award". ACM. Retrieved 16 October 2015.
  4. ↑ "Proceedings: Awards". Retrieved 1 May 2016.
  5. ↑ "Wenfei Fan". The University of Edinburgh, School of Informatics. Retrieved 1 January 2015.
  6. ↑ "Members: Chief Scientists". International Research Center on Big Data, Beihang University. Retrieved 1 January 2015.
  7. ↑ "Prof. Wenfei Fan – Award Winner". Association for Computing Machinery. 2012. Retrieved 1 November 2013.


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