Wenfei Fan elected foreign member of the Chinese Academy of Sciences
Wenfei Fan has been elected as a foreign member of the Chinese Academy of Sciences.
Wenfei was among four researchers elected in October and among 20 foreign members elected in the course of 2019.
Database theory and database systems research
Wenfei’s research interests focus on database theory and systems including big data, data quality, distributed computing, query languages, recommender systems and precision marketing of social network.
His previous accolades include Fellowship of the Royal Society, Fellowship of the Royal Society of Edinburgh, Member of Academia Europaea.
Chinese Academy of Science
The Chinese Academy of Sciences is the world's largest research organisation, comprising around 60,000 researchers working in 114 institutes, has been consistently ranked among the top research organisations around the world. It functions as the national scientific think tank and academic governing body.