Bio

Xifeng Yan is an associate professor at the University of California at Santa Barbara. He holds the Venkatesh Narayanamurti Chair of Computer Science. He received his Ph.D. degree in Computer Science from the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign in 2006. He was a research staff member at the IBM T. J. Watson Research Center between 2006 and 2008. He has been working on modeling, managing, and mining graphs in information networks, computer systems, social media and bioinformatics. His works were extensively referenced, with over 9,000 citations per Google Scholar and thousands of software downloads. He received NSF CAREER Award, IBM Invention Achievement Award, ACM-SIGMOD Dissertation Runner-Up Award, and IEEE ICDM 10-year Highest Impact Paper Award.

Research

The primary goal of my lab is to develop fundamental concepts and new principles of data mining, design intelligent algorithms and build scalable systems.  Our current work has concentrated on three key areas: Modeling, managing, and mining large-scale, heterogeneous graphs; Structural and statistical analysis of texts and derived applications such as information extraction, question answering, and information trustworthiness; Intelligent solutions to various cross-domain problems in bioinformatics, business intelligence, computer security, computer systems, and social science.

Honors and Awards

• 2013 ICDE 2013 Best Poster Award
• 2011 IEEE ICDM 10-year Highest Impact Paper Award
• 2010 NSF CAREER Award
• 2008-present The Venkatesh Narayanamurti Chair, Univ. of California at Santa Barbara
• 2007 ACM-SIGMOD Dissertation Runner-Up Award
• 2004 IBM Invention Achievement Award, IBM T. J. Watson Research Center

Publications