Regular biography
Wenfei Fan holds the Personal Chair in Web Data Management at The University of Edinburgh's Department of Computer Science. Dr. Fan's research focuses on web data management, with an emphasis on data integration, data exchange, and data quality. Their work addresses challenges in managing and integrating heterogeneous data sources, contributing to advancements in semantic web technologies and data interoperability. Dr. Fan is affiliated with The University of Edinburgh and can be contacted via email at Dr.Wenfei.Fan@ed.ac.uk. Their academic profile is available at https://www.ed.ac.uk/Wenfei_Fan.html.
Scholar-generated biography
Wenfei Fan is a Professor of Web Data Management at the University of Edinburgh, specializing in databases. His research focuses on improving data quality through consistency and accuracy, with an emphasis on data cleaning and integrity constraints. He has explored conditional functional dependencies, XML integrity constraints, and the use of graph pattern matching for data management. His work addresses challenges in data consistency, record matching, and secure XML querying. Fan has contributed to the foundations of data quality management and has developed methods for repairing data constraints and enhancing data quality in practice.