Jiannan Wang, Simon Fraser University

Research

Database Systems Data Cleaning Data Connector Data Integration Data Preparation Data Science Entity Matching Exploratory Data Analysis

Latest funding

DataPrep: Human-in-the-Loop Data Preparation
NSERC · 2021 · Principal investigator
$192,000
Approximate Query Processing over Secure Key/Value Stores
NSERC · 2017 · Principal investigator
$25,000
Crowdsourced Data Cleaning
NSERC · 2016 · Principal investigator
$180,000

All 6 grants and awards

DataPrep: Human-in-the-Loop Data Preparation

Principal investigatorNSERC2021Discovery Grants Program - Individual

Principal investigators: Wang, Jiannan

Keywords: data preparation; data cleaning; data integration; exploratory data analysis; data connector; data science; database systems; human-in-the-loop; entity matching

$192,000

Approximate Query Processing over Secure Key/Value Stores

Principal investigatorNSERC2017Engage Grants Program

Principal investigators: Wang, Jiannan

$25,000

Crowdsourced Data Cleaning

Principal investigatorNSERC2016Discovery Grants Program - Individual

Principal investigators: Wang, Jiannan

$180,000

Entity augmentation and data cleaning for machine learning

Principal investigatorNSERC2016Collaborative Research and Development Grants

Principal investigators: Wang, Jiannan

$180,000

A unified access server for SQL-on-Hadoop systems

Principal investigatorNSERC2016Engage Grants Program

Principal investigators: Wang, Jiannan

$25,000

Computational Infrastructure for Online Big Data Analytics

Co-investigatorNSERC2016Research Tools and Instruments

Principal investigators: Pei, Jian

$148,408

From CIHR, NSERC and SSHRC funding decisions: CIHR since 2008, NSERC since 1991 and SSHRC since 1998, including their latest published competition results.

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Subject: Prospective PhD student: Database Systems Dear Professor Wang, My name is [your name], and I am a [your current degree or role] at [your institution]. I am applying for a PhD position starting in [term and year]. Your research on database systems connects closely to my own work on [your research topic]. [One or two sentences on what you did and what you learned.] I also saw your NSERC-funded project "DataPrep: Human-in-the-Loop Data Preparation" (2021), and I would be glad to contribute to work in that direction. Are you accepting new PhD students for [term and year]? I have attached my CV and transcripts, and I would be glad to talk at a time that suits you. Thank you for your time. Kind regards, [your name]