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. 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.

External links

• Wenfei Fan's publications indexed by the DBLP Bibliography Server at the University of Trier