Xifeng Yan
Professor
Venkatesh Narayanamurti Endowed Chair in CS
He/Him/His
xyan@cs.ucsb.edu
(805)699-6018
2017 Henley Hall
Personal Website
Education
Ph.D. University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign, 2006
M.S. Computer Science, State University of New York at Stony Brook, 2001
B.E. Computer Engineering, Zhejiang University, 1997
Research Areas
Computational Science and Engineering
Database and Information Systems
Human Centered and Social Computing
Machine Learning and Data Mining
Bio

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. 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.