Biography

Yifan Wang will join 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, AI+DB, Data Analytic Systems, as well as Information Retrieval. He currently pursues research topics about “AI + Data Systems”, such as specialized database architecture design for AI development and deployment, and AI-accelerated high-dimensional data management, as well as the corresponding applications like retrieval-augmented generation (RAG) for LLM. His papers have been accepted by top-tier conferences like VLDB. And he is a Program Committee (PC) member of CIKM 2022 and VLDB 2025.

Hiring PhD students and research interns for Fall 2024 and Spring 2025. Please send your CV/resume and transcripts to my email if you are interested in my research areas.