Biography

Yifan Wang joined University of Hawaii at Manoa as an Assistant Professor in Fall 2024. He obtained his PHD and Master’s degree in Computer Science at the University of Florida (UF) in 2024 and 2019, and Bachelor’s degree in Electronics and Information Engineering at the Huazhong University of Science and Technology (HUST) in 2017. He is particularly interested in Databases, especially high-dimensional data systems like KNN search and vector database, Data Analytic Systems, as well as Information Retrieval. His papers have been accepted by top-tier conferences like VLDB. And he is a Program Committee (PC) member of CIKM 2022, VLDB 2025, VLDB 2026 and ICDE 2026.

Hiring PhD students and research interns. Please send your CV/resume and transcripts to my email if you are interested in my research areas.