Yang Cao

Yang Cao is a Lecturer at the School of Informatics, University of Edinburgh, and holds a RAEng Research Fellow position. His work focuses on

• Databases and Data Mining
• Foundations of Database Systems
• Data Management and Optimization

Research Interests: Yang Cao's research spans multiple areas in database systems, including

• In-database machine learning explanations
• Vector database optimization
• Transaction scheduling and isolation
• Graph transaction frameworks
• Query optimization under constraints
• Graph computation vectorization

Article Trends: Recent work emphasizes

• Integrating AI/ML with database systems
• Graph transaction models and isolation
• Query optimization for big data
• Data quality through pattern dependencies
• Cache consistency in transactional systems

Scientific Awards:

• RAEng Research Fellow
• SIGMOD Research Highlight Award (2018)
• Best Paper Award at SIGMOD (2017)

PhD Students: Current and former students include

• Ziying Chen (2025--)
• Beining Yang (2024--)
• Tianjian Yang (2024--)
• Shuai An (Associate Professor, Beijing Jiaotong University)
• Wenyue Zhao (Amazon, London)
• Wenzhi Fu (Research Associate, University of Edinburgh)

Multiple PhD and postdoc positions are available.