Bio
General Information
| Full Name | Nan Tang (汤南) |
| Languages | Chinese, English |
Education
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2007 PhD
The Chinese University of Hong Kong, Hong Kong - Co-supervised by Prof. Kam-Fai Wong and Prof. Jeffery Xu Yu
- Research on management of semi-structured data
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2004 Master
Northeastern University, China - Supervised by Prof. Guoren Wang and Prof. Ge Yu
- Research on distributed and parallel XML processing
Experience
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2011 - 2023 Senior Scientist
Qatar Computing Research Institute, Qatar - Research on data prep systems, AI-powered data prep, and data-centric AI
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2017/07-08 Visiting Scientist, US
MIT CSAIL - Collaborating with Prof. Mike Stonebraker, Prof. Sam Madden, and Prof. Armando Solar
- Research on Data Civilizer project
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2010/02-2011/12 Research Fellow
University of Edinburgh, Edinburgh, UK - Mentored by Prof. Wenfei Fan
- Research on data cleaning and graph databases
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2008/02-2010/01 Scientific Staff Member
CWI (the national research institute for mathematics and computer science), the Netherlands - Mentored by Prof. Dr. Peter Boncz
- Research on column-store database MonetDB and distributed XQuery processing
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2007/03–08 Visiting Scholar
University of Waterloo, Canada - Mentored by Prof. Tamer Ozsu
- Research on XML indexing and query rewriting
Honors and Awards
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2024 - 2024 ACM SIGMOD Research Highlight Award. Unicorn A Unified Multi-tasking Model for Supporting Matching Tasks in Data Integration.
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2023 - Best papers of SIGMOD 2023. GoodCore Data-effective and Data-efficient Machine Learning through Coreset Selection over Incomplete Data.
- Best papers of VLDB 2023. Self-supervised and Interpretable Data Cleaning with Sequence Generative Adversarial Networks.
- ICDE 2023 Distinguished Reviewer Award.
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2021 - VLDB 2021 Distinguished Reviewer Award.
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2020 - ACM SIGMOD 2020 Reproducibility Award. Raha A Configuration-Free Error Detection System.
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2018 - Best papers of ICDE 2018. Discovering Mis-Categorized Entities.
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2015 - Best papers of VLDB 2015. Lightning Fast and Space Efficient Inequality Joins.
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2012 - Best papers of ICDE 2012. Incremental Detection of Inconsistencies in Distributed Data.
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2010 - The Best Paper Award of VLDB 2010. Towards Certain Fixes with Editing Rules and Master Data.
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2009 - Best papers of ICDE 2009. Projective Distribution of Full-Fledged XQuery.
Services
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2025 - VLDB (Meta-Reviewer, demo track reviewer), ICDE (research and industial)
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2024 - SIGMOD, VLDB (industrial track), ICDE (research track area chair, industrial track reviewer), CIKM (Area Chair)
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2023 - SIGMOD (research and demo), ICDE, KDD
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2022 - SIGMOD (research and demo), VLDB (research and demo), KDD, VIS, EuroVis
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2021 - SIGMOD (Exhibition Chair), VLDB, KDD, CHI, VIS
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2020 - SIGMOD, VLDB, KDD, DASFAA, ICDCS
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2019 - SIGMOD (research and demo), VLDB (research and demo), KDD, DASFAA (demo co-chair)