Wenfei Fan - Curriculum Vitae#
Education:
- BSc and MSc from Peking University, China (1985 and 1988)
- PhD from the University of Pennsylvania, USA (1999)
Editorial boards:
- ACM Transactions on Database Systems (TODS, 2009-2015)
- Theoretical Computer Science (TCS, since 2011), the VLDB Journal (VLDBJ, since 2015)
- IEEE Trans. on Big Data (TBD, since 2015)
PC Chair:
ACM Symp. on Principles of Database Systems (PODS 2013), ACM Conf. on Information and Knowledge Management (CIKM 2011), Int'l Asia-Pacific Web Conf. (APWeb 2011), Int'l Workshop on the Web and Databases (WebDB, 2006), Int'l Conf. on Web-Age Information Management (WAIM, 2005).
Over 25 invited keynotes and tutorials including ICDT (2012, keynote), PODS (2008, tutorial), VLDB (2008, tutorial)
Over 20 papers invited to special issues of JACM, JCSS, TCS, TODS, VLDBJ and TKDE for best papers that appeared in PODS, VLDB, ICDE and ICDT.
Other professional activities: member of PODS executive committee (2012-2015), tutorial chair of SIGMOD 2015, member of UK Computing Research Committee (UKCRC, since 2009), and over 70 PCs (regularly on PCs of SIGMOD, PODS, VLDB, ICDE and ICDT).
8 US patents issued
PI of over 15 grants, with total value over 6M euro (over 5.8M Euro as coPI)
Institutional responsibility:
- 2016 - present: Director, Huawei Edinburgh Research Laboratory
- 2013 - present: Director, International Research Center on Big Data at Beihang University, China (adjunct)
Award committees:
- 2014: chair, ACM PODS Test of Time Award committee
- 2013-2016: British Computer Society Academy Award Committee
- 2007: SIGMOD best paper award committee
Advisory boards:
- 2016 - : Beijing Advanced Research Center for Big Data and Brain Computing, China
- 2013 - : Institute of Computer Science and Technology, Peking University, China
- 2011 - : Overseas Advisory Committee for the State Council, China (72 members elected world wide)
- 2002 - 2005: Research Strategy Committee for XML Data Management, Bell Labs, USA
