Summary
Haofen Wang is a professor and technology leader in Shanghai with eight years of industry experience and a deep research background in data management, Web search and the Semantic Web. He has authored over 70 papers in top venues (ISWC, WWW, SIGIR, SIGMOD, ICDE) and won a best paper award at CSWS 2009, while also organizing major SemSearch workshops and serving on numerous program committees. His career bridges academia and product: he led semantic research at Shanghai Jiao Tong University, served as CTO building emotionally expressive, learning-enabled chatbots and robots, and headed projects on scalable semantic search and cloud-scale semantic query answering. A two-time IBM PhD Fellow and frequent visiting researcher at international labs (HKUST, KIT, Bozen), he pairs rigorous theoretical expertise with hands-on systems delivery. Notably, he has experience optimizing learning algorithms for IBM Watson and orchestrating large interdisciplinary teams to translate semantic technologies into deployed products.
8 years of coding experience
12 years of employment as a software developer
Doctor, Computer Science, Doctor, Computer Science at Shanghai Jiao Tong University
English