The Venkatesh "Venky" Narayanamurti Chair
Xifeng Yan is honored as the Inaugural Venkatesh “Venky” Narayanamurti Professor in Computer Science.
Xifeng Yan joined the Computer Science Department at UC Santa Barbara in 2009 as an assistant professor. He was a Research Staff Member at the IBM T. J. Watson Research Center between 2006 and 2008. He received a B.E. in computer science from Zhejiang University, China in 1997 and a Ph.D. in computer science from the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign in 2006. His research interests include data mining, databases, and machine learning, with emphasis on modeling, managing, and mining large-scale graphs and networks in bioinformatics, social networks, the Web, and computer systems.
His website is www.cs.ucsb.edu/~xyan.
