Wenfei Fan

Wenfei Fan is a Chinese-British computer scientist and professor of web data management at the University of Edinburgh. His research investigates database theory and database systems.

Education Fan was educated at Peking University (BS, MS) and the University of Pennsylvania where he was awarded a PhD in Computer Science for research supervised by Peter Buneman and Scott Weinstein in 1999.

Fan has made fundamental contributions to both theory and practice of data management. In addition, Fan has made seminal contributions to data quality, in which he devised new techniques for data cleaning that have found wide commercial adoption. and a member of Academia Europaea (MAE).

Fellow of the Royal Academy of Engineering(FREng), 2023. Foreign member of the Chinese Academy of Sciences, 2019. Fellow of the Royal Society (FRS), 2018. Royal Society Wolfson Research Merit Award (2018) 20 17 SIGMOD Research Highlight Award (2018) Best Paper Award for SIGMOD 2017 VLDB conference 2017 Best Demo Award European Research Council (ERC) Advanced Fellowship, 2015 Alberto O. Mendelzon Test-of-Time Award for ACM PODS 2015 ACM Fellow, 2012 Fellow of the Royal Society of Edinburgh (FRSE), 2011 National Professor of the Thousand-Talent Program, 2010, China Alberto O. Mendelzon Test-of-Time Award for ACM PODS 2010 The Roger Needham Award, 2008, UK Best Paper Award for ICDE 2007 Changjiang Scholar, 2007, China Best Paper of the Year Award for Computer Networks, 2002 The Career Award, 2001, USA