Wenfei Fan#
| Membership Number: | 4467 |
| Membership type: | ORDINARY |
| Section: | INFORMATICS |
| Elected: | 2017 |
| Main Country of Residence: | UNITED KINGDOM |
| Homepage(s): | http://homepages.inf.ed.ac.uk/wenfei |
Present and Previous Positions
- 2006 - present Professor, Chair of Web Data Management, University of Edinburgh
- 2006 - 2009 Research Scientist (consultant), Bell Laboratories, Alcatel-Lucent UK Ltd.
- 2004 - 2005 Reader, University of Edinburgh
- 2001 - 2005 Member of Technical Staff, Bell Laboratories, Lucent Technologies, USA (on leave for part of 2004 - 2005)
- 1999 - 2002 Assistant Professor, Temple University, USA (tenure approved in 2002; on leave from July 2001 - December 2002)
- 1988 - 1993 Co-founder and CTO, Huaguang Software Ltd, China
Fields of Scholarship
- Database systems
- Database theory
- Big data
- Data quality
- Constraint theory and applications
- Web data management
Honours and Awards
- 2015 ERC Advanced Grant (for "exceptional established research leaders to pursue ground-breaking, high-risk projects that open new directions in their respective research fields or other domains")
- 2012 Fellow of the ACM (Association for Computing Machinery)
- 2011 Fellow of the Royal Society of Edinburgh (Scotland's National Academy)
- 2009 National Distinguished Professor (China Research Chair) of the 1000-Talent Program, China
- 2008 The Roger Needham Award, the British Computer Society (BCS), UK
- 2007 Yangtze River Scholar, Ministry of Education, China
- 2003 Distinguished Overseas Young Scholar Award, NSFC, China, 2003
- 2001 NSF Career Award, USA
- Awards for research papers:
- 2017 Best Paper Award, ACM SIGMOD Conference on Management of Data (SIGMOD is the premier database systems conference)
- 2015 The Alberto O. Mendelzon Test-of-Time Award , ACM Symposium on Principles of Database Systems (PODS, for papers with the highest impact over 10 years; PODS is the premier database theory conference)
- 2014 Runner-up Best Paper Award for ICDE
- 2010 The Alberto O. Mendelzon Test-of-Time Award, ACM PODS
- 2010 Best Paper Award, International Conference on Very Large Data Bases (VLDB is the leading international all-round database conference)
- 2007 Best Paper Award, IEEE International Conference on Data Engineering (ICDE is a leading database systems conference)
- 2002 The Best Paper of the Year Award, Computer Networks
- 2001 Merit Award, International World Wide Web Conference (WWW)
