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Overview

Nan Tang is affiliated with the Qatar Computing Research Institute in Qatar and has contributed extensively to the field of computer science through numerous research publications. Their work is predominantly situated within computer science, with a strong focus on artificial intelligence, management science and operations research, information systems, computer vision and pattern recognition, and computer networks and communications.

The key research topics Nan Tang has addressed include:

  • Data Quality and Management
  • Topic Modeling
  • Machine Learning and Data Classification
  • Natural Language Processing Techniques
  • Privacy-Preserving Technologies in Data
  • Scientific Computing and Data Management
  • Semantic Web and Ontologies

Nan Tang has co-authored numerous papers with several frequent collaborators. These include Guoliang Li, Ju Fan, Yuyu Luo, Chengliang Chai, and Xiaoyong Du.

The scientist has published substantially in a range of publication venues. Their most frequent outlets include:

  • arXiv (Cornell University)
  • Proceedings of the VLDB Endowment
  • Proceedings of the ACM on Management of Data
  • The VLDB Journal
  • IEEE Transactions on Knowledge and Data Engineering

Among recent notable publications are the following:

  • "Natural Language to Visualization by Neural Machine Translation," 2021, IEEE Transactions on Visualization and Computer Graphics
  • "Learned cardinality estimation," 2021, Proceedings of the VLDB Endowment
  • "Deep learning for blocking in entity matching," 2021, Proceedings of the VLDB Endowment
  • "RPT," 2021, Proceedings of the VLDB Endowment
  • "Selective data acquisition in the wild for model charging," 2022, Proceedings of the VLDB Endowment

Best Publications

  • NADEEF: a commodity data cleaning system

    Michele Dallachiesa;Amr Ebaid;Ahmed Eldawy;Ahmed Elmagarmid

  • Graph pattern matching: from intractable to polynomial time

    Wenfei Fan;Jianzhong Li;Shuai Ma;Nan Tang

  • KATARA: A Data Cleaning System Powered by Knowledge Bases and Crowdsourcing

    Xu Chu;John Morcos;Ihab F. Ilyas;Mourad Ouzzani

  • Towards certain fixes with editing rules and master data

    Wenfei Fan;Jianzhong Li;Shuai Ma;Nan Tang

  • Detecting data errors: where are we and what needs to be done?

    Ziawasch Abedjan;Xu Chu;Dong Deng;Raul Castro Fernandez

  • BigDansing: A System for Big Data Cleansing

    Zuhair Khayyat;Ihab F. Ilyas;Alekh Jindal;Samuel Madden

  • DeepEye: Towards Automatic Data Visualization

    Yuyu Luo;Xuedi Qin;Nan Tang;Guoliang Li

  • Making data visualization more efficient and effective: a survey

    Xuedi Qin;Yuyu Luo;Nan Tang;Guoliang Li

  • DeepER - Deep Entity Resolution.

    Muhammad Ebraheem;Saravanan Thirumuruganathan;Shafiq R. Joty;Mourad Ouzzani

  • Distributed representations of tuples for entity resolution

    Muhammad Ebraheem;Saravanan Thirumuruganathan;Shafiq Joty;Mourad Ouzzani

  • Adding regular expressions to graph reachability and pattern queries

    Wenfei Fan;Wenfei Fan;Jianzhong Li;Shuai Ma;Nan Tang

  • Adding regular expressions to graph reachability and pattern queries

    Wenfei Fan;Jianzhong Li;Shuai Ma;Nan Tang

  • Interaction between Record Matching and Data Repairing

    Wenfei Fan;Shuai Ma;Nan Tang;Wenyuan Yu

  • Towards dependable data repairing with fixing rules

    Jiannan Wang;Nan Tang

  • Interaction between record matching and data repairing

    Wenfei Fan;Jianzhong Li;Shuai Ma;Nan Tang

  • Reinforcement Learning with Tree-LSTM for Join Order Selection

    Xiang Yu;Guoliang Li;Chengliang Chai;Nan Tang

  • The data civilizer system

    Dong Deng;Raul Castro Fernandez;Ziawasch Abedjan;Sibo Wang

  • Synthesizing entity matching rules by examples

    Rohit Singh;Venkata Vamsikrishna Meduri;Ahmed Elmagarmid;Samuel Madden

  • Natural Language to Visualization by Neural Machine Translation.

    Yuyu Luo;Nan Tang;Guoliang Li;Jiawei Tang

  • Raha: A Configuration-Free Error Detection System

    Mohammad Mahdavi;Ziawasch Abedjan;Raul Castro Fernandez;Samuel Madden

  • Seeping Semantics: Linking Datasets Using Word Embeddings for Data Discovery

    Raul Castro Fernandez;Essam Mansour;Abdulhakim A. Qahtan;Ahmed Elmagarmid

Frequent Co-Authors

Mourad Ouzzani
Mourad Ouzzani Qatar Computing Research Institute
Ahmed K. Elmagarmid
Ahmed K. Elmagarmid Qatar Computing Research Institute
Ihab F. Ilyas
Ihab F. Ilyas University of Waterloo
Wenfei Fan
Wenfei Fan University of Edinburgh
Jeffrey Xu Yu
Jeffrey Xu Yu Chinese University of Hong Kong
Jianzhong Li
Jianzhong Li Harbin Institute of Technology
Kam-Fai Wong
Kam-Fai Wong Chinese University of Hong Kong

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