Wenfei Fan holds the Personal Chair in Web Data Management at the School of Informatics, University of Edinburgh . He is affiliated with the Database Group , LFCS (Laboratory for Foundations of Computer Science), Bell Labs , and the International Research Center on Big Data at Beihang University. His research spans database theory, data science, and big data systems. PhD in Computer and Information Science, University of Pennsylvania, USA MS in Computer Science, Peking University, China BS in Computer Science, Peking University, China His research interests focus on database theory and systems , including big data, data quality, data integration, database security, distributed query processing, query languages, social networks, and XML. He has pioneered techniques for graph pattern matching, data dependencies, and scalable algorithms. Recent publications emphasize graph data management , rule-based systems , and ML-data quality integration . Key themes include incremental computation, GPU-accelerated graph cleaning, entity linking, and logic-driven ML. Articles like 'Rock' and 'MiniClean' demonstrate hybrid approaches for real-world data challenges. Fellow of the Royal Academy of Engineering (FREng), 2023 Foreign Member, Chinese Academy of Sciences (ForMemCAS), 2019 Fellow of the Royal Society (FRS), 2018 ERC Advanced Fellowship, 2015 ACM Fellow (FACM), 2012 Roger Needham Award, 2008 He leads the ERC project: Resource-Bounded Graph Query Answering and contributes to systems like GRAPE and GraphScope , which parallelize sequential algorithms and process large graphs. He mentors students and collaborators globally, with a focus on data quality and graph analytics.










