Yanfeng Zhang (张岩峰)
B233 Xinxi Building
Northeastern University (Hunnan Campus)
Shenyang, Liaoning, China
I am a professor of School of Computer Science and Engineering at Northeastern University, China. During my Ph. D. study, I spent 2.5 years working under supervision of Prof. Lixin Gao at University of Massachusetts Amherst as a visiting Ph.D. student (Aug. 2009 - Apr. 2012). I also worked as a visiting scholar in Prof. Xiaodong Zhang’s group at Ohio State University (Dec. 2016 - Dec. 2017).
I am leading iDC-NEU group where many enthusiastic and talented students work together. My research interest focuses on building data systems including database systems, graph processing systems, and systems for AI. I am also working with several industry groups (Huawei’s GaussDB, Alibaba Damo Academy’s GraphScope, Ant’s TuGraph, and so on) targeting on solving real problems.
news
| Feb 24, 2026 | Our two papers “Incremental GNN Embedding Computation on Streaming Graphs” and “PAT: Towards Transaction Routing with Page Affinity in Shared-Cache Databases” are accepted by ICDE 2026! |
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| Jan 27, 2026 | Our paper “Ponzitracker: A General Detection Framework for Ponzi Scheme in Blockchains” is accepted by DASFAA 2026! |
| Jan 16, 2026 | Our paper “GETL: An Extract-Transform-Load Framework Across Graph Models in Graph Warehouse” is accepted by TKDE! |
| Oct 22, 2025 | Our paper “GeoLayer: Towards Low-Latency and Cost-Efficient Geo-Distributed Graph Stores with Layered Graph” is accepted by ICDE 26! |
| Oct 16, 2025 | Our paper “A Topology-Aware Localized Update Strategy for Graph-Based ANN Index” is accepted by VLDB 26! |
