Rihan Hai

Rihan Hai

Assistant professor

Biography

I am an assistant professor at Web Information Systems (WIS) group of TU Delft and the lead of InfiniData Team. Before joining TU Delft, I received my Ph.D. degree with “summa cum laude” from Information Systems & Databases group of RWTH Aachen University, Germany. I received my BEng and MEng from Tsinghua University, China. My research focuses on data lakes, data management for machine learning, and quantum data management

Opening:

On the topic of Quantum Data Management, we currently have available openings for postdoc, MSc thesis, and research software engineer. To apply, please send me an email including your CV, academic transcripts, and any other relevant documents.

PC: SIGMOD, VLDB, ICDE, EDBT, WWW

Journal reviewer: TODS, TKDE, VLDBJ, SIGMOD Reocrd, Information Systems, JMLR, TPDS

Founder: International Workshop on Databases and Machine Learning (DBML), International Workshop on Quantum Data and Machine Learning (QDML)

Grants

6G-DALI: 6G Data and ML operations automation via an end-to-end AI framework. HORIZON-JU-SNS-2024-STREAM-B-01-08Awarded. (Jan 2025-)

NWO VENI Grant 2022. Project: Understanding Implicit Dataset Relationships for Machine Learning. Awarded. (Feb 2024-)

ExtremeXP – EXPerimentation driven and user eXPerience-oriented analytics for eXtremely Precise outcomes and decisions. HORIZON-CL4-2022-DATA-01. Awarded. Role: / WP3 Lead, Task 3.1 / 3.6 Lead (Jan 2023- Dec 2025)

Awards

Distinguished Reviewers Award of VLDB 2024, 2025

SIGMOD 2025 Best Demonstration Award Runner-up

EDBT 2023 Best Demonstration Award

Research Interests

AI in data lakes

Data Systems for AI

Quantum Data Management

Data Systems for Quantum Computing

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