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Mingxi Wu is the Sr. Vice President of engineering at TigerGraph, a Silicon Valley-based startup building a world-leading real-time graph database. Over his career, Mingxi has focused on database research and data management software. Previously, he worked in Microsoft’s SQL Server Group, Oracle’s Relational Database Optimizer Group, and Turn Inc.‘s Big Data Management Group. Lately, his interest has turned to building an easy-to-use and highly expressive graph query language. He’s won research awards from the most prestigious publication venues in database and data mining, including SIGMOD, KDD, and VLDB, and has authored five US patents with three more international patents pending. Mingxi holds a PhD specializing in both database and data mining from the University of Florida.