Profile
Yingfan Liu
Associate Professor
Department: School of Computer Science and Technology
Contact Information
Email: liuyingfan@xidian.edu.cn or yfliu1989@gmail.com
Introduction
Yingfan Liu is currently a tenured Associate Professor in School of Computer Science and Technology of Xidian University. He received his PhD degree in Systems Engnieering and Engineering Management from Chinese University of Hong Kong in 2019. He obtained his Bachelor degreee and Master Degree both from Xidian Univerisity in 2011 and 2014 repsectively. His research focuses on vector databases and LLM inference.
Research Interests
1. Vector Database
2. High-Performance Computing
3. LLM Inference
Selected Publications
（*corresponding author，#co-first author）
- Shuo Yang#, Jiadong Xie#, Yingfan Liu*, Jeffrey Xu Yu, Xiyue Gao, Qianru Wang, Yanguo Peng, Jiangtao Cui. Revisiting the Index Construction of Proximity Graph-Based Approximate Nearest Neighbor Search. VLDB 2025, pp 1825-1838.
- Yingfan Liu, Yandi Zhang, Jiadong Xie, Hui Li*, Jeffrey Xu Yu, Jiangtao Cui. Privacy-Preserving Approximate Nearest Neighbor Search on High-Dimensional Data. ICDE 2025, pp. 3017-3029.
- Jiadong Xie, Jeffrey Xu Yu, Siyi Teng, Yingfan Liu*. Beyond Vector Search: Querying With and Without Predicates. Accepted by SIGMOD 2026.
- Jiadong Xie, Jeffrey Xu Yu, Yingfan Liu*. Graph Based K-Nearest Neighbor Search Revisited. ACM TODS 2025.
- Jiadong Xie, Jeffrey Xu Yu, Yingfan Liu*. Fast Approximate Similarity Join in Vector Databases. SIGMOD 2025, pp. 1-26.
- Songwei Han, Jiangtao Cui, Luming Sun, Yingfan Liu*, Zhangqian Mu, Ming Li. QuadraFormer: Unified Query and Resource Forecasting for Database Workloads. ICDM 2026.
More papers：DBLP，Google Scholar, ORCID。