Xifeng Yan

Research

Data Mining, Artificial Intelligence, Natural Language Processing

Affiliations

IEE, INARC, NS-CTA, ICB

Biography

Xifeng Yan is a 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. His work is centered on knowledge discovery, knowledge bases, and conversational AI. His contribution can be found in data mining, database systems, natural language processing, and their applications in interdisciplinary areas. His works were extensively referenced, with over 23,000 citations per Google Scholar and thousands of software downloads. He received NSF CAREER Award, IBM Invention Achievement Award, ACM-SIGMOD Dissertation Runner-Up Award, IEEE ICDM 10-year Highest Impact Paper Award, 2022 PLDI Distinguished Paper Award, and 2022 VLDB Test of Time Award.

Honors

1. Program Co-chair: 2023 ACM SIGKDD International Conference on Knowledge Discovery and Data Mining (SIGKDD'23)
2. Test of Time Award at VLDB 2022
3. Distinguished Paper Award at PLDI 2022
4. Best of ICDM 2019 Selection
5. Program Co-chair: 2019 SIAM International Conference on Data Mining (SDM'19)
6. ICDE 2013 Best Poster Award
7. SIGKDD Best Student Paper Award, 2012
8. IEEE ICDM 10-year Highest Impact Paper Award, 2011
9. NSF Career Award, 2010
10. The Venkatesh Narayanamxurti Chair, Univ. of California at Santa Barbara, 2008-present
11. ACM-SIGMOD Dissertation Award Honorable Mention, 2007
12. Best Student Paper, Proc. of 2007 Pacific-Asia Conference on Knowledge Discovery and Data Mining (PAKDD), 2007 
13. Best Student Paper, Proc. of 2007 IEEE International Conference on Data Engineering (ICDE), 2007
14. Excellent Teaching Assistant Award, CS Dept., Univ. of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign, 2003, 2004
15. Outstanding Teaching Assistant Award, CS Dept., SUNY at Stony Brook, 2001

Education

Ph.D, 2006, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign