Wenfei Fan (Chinese: 樊文飞; pinyin: Fán Wénfēi) is a Chinese-British computer scientist and professor of web data management at the University of Edinburgh.

[6] He has both formalised the problems of querying big data and has developed radically new techniques that overcome the limits associated with conventional database systems.

His work has been adopted in the telecommunications industry for analyzing massive data sets that defied their current technology.

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