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 management, in particular, the power of data. I build data systems for what’s next:
Edge AI, quantum computation simulation, and quantum databases.

PC: SIGMOD, VLDB, ICML, ICDE, EDBT, TheWebConf

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

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

Grants

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

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

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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