Eminent web data management expert Professor Wenfei Fan delivers Distinguished Lecture

Professor Wenfei Fan from University of Edinburgh, UK delivered an online Distinguished Lecture on “Big Graphs: Challenges and Opportunities” on 8 December 2021. The lecture was organised in celebration of the 60th anniversary of the Faculty of Science, HKBU. In the lecture, Professor Fan presented the staggering challenges of big graphs and explored some open questions with the audience. The participants were fascinated by the topic and excited to raise questions.

Professor Wenfei Fan is the Chair of Web Data Management at the University of Edinburgh, UK, and the Chief Scientist of Shenzhen Institute of Computing Science, China. He is a Fellow of the Royal Society (FRS), a Fellow of the Royal Society of Edinburgh (FRSE), a Member of the Academy of Europe (MAE), an ACM Fellow (FACM), and a Foreign Member of Chinese Academy of Sciences. He received his PhD from the University of Pennsylvania (USA), and his MSc and BSc from Peking University (China). He is a recipient of Royal Society Wolfson Research Merit Award in 2018, ERC Advanced Fellowship in 2015, the Roger Needham Award in 2008 (UK), Yangtze River Scholar in 2007 (China), the Outstanding Overseas Young Scholar Award in 2003 (China), the Career Award in 2001 (USA), and several Test-of-Time and Best Paper Awards (Alberto O. Mendelzon Test-of-Time Award of ACM PODS 2015 and 2010, Best Paper Awards for SIGMOD 2017, VLDB 2010, ICDE 2007 and Computer Networks 2002). His current research interests include database theory and systems, in particular big data, data quality, data sharing, parallel computation, query languages and recommender systems.