Xifeng Yan

Associate Professor
Phone: 
805-699-6018
Email: 
xyan at cs.ucsb.edu
Office: 
1111 Harold Frank Hall
Website: 
CS Webpage

Education

  • Ph.D., University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign
  • M.S., State University of New York at Stony Brook
  • M.E., East-China Institute of Co mputer Technology, China
  • B.E., Zhejiang University, China

Research

The primary goal of my research is to develop fundamental concepts and new principles of data mining, design intelligent algorithms and build scalable systems.  Our current work has concentrated on three key areas: Modeling, managing, and mining large-scale, heterogeneous graphs; Structural and statistical analysis of texts and derived applications such as information extraction, question answering, and information trustworthiness; Intelligent solutions to various cross-domain problems in bioinformatics, business intelligence, computer security, computer systems, and social science.

Research Areas