Yiming is currently a Ph.D. student from ISG group, University of California, Irvine from 2017, under the supervision of Prof. Sharad Mehrotra. Before that, he earned master's and bachelor's degrees in computer science at Harbin Institute of Technology. His research interests include data cleaning, query processing, and building efficient online data processing systems. He is a recipient of the HPI fellowship from 2021 to 2023 and has several publications in VLDB, ICDE, and TKDE.