!!!Wenfei Fan \\ %%(float:left;margin-left:20px;margin-right:30px;) [{Image src='Fan_Wenfei.jpg' alt='Wenfei Fan' height='200'}] %% [{AcadMemberDataPlugin}] \\%%(margin-left:23px;) %% \\ \\ \\ __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__ [{AcadMemberFOScholarshipPlugin}] \\ __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) \\ %%columns-900 %%coolborders-140-70 [{Image src='User/paper_content_pencil_48.png' width='48px' class='image_left'}] [Curriculum Vitae |User/Fan_Wenfei/CV] %% ---- %%coolborders-140-70 [{Image src='User/book_48.png' class='image_left'}] [Publication list|User/Fan_Wenfei/Publications] %% ---- %%coolborders-140-70 [{Image src='User/camera_noflash_48.png' width='48px' class='image_left'}] [Highlights of my work and anecdotes|User/Fan_Wenfei/Highlight] %% ---- %%coolborders-140-70 [{Image src='User/database_48.png' class='image_left'}] [Other information|User/Fan_Wenfei/OtherInformation] %% %% [{ALLOW view All}] [{ALLOW edit wfan}] [{ALLOW upload wfan}] [{ALLOW comment All}]