Zhengyi Yang

Students and Mentoring

Current and former research students supervised or mentored across PhD, MPhil, honours, coursework research projects, and informal advising. For University of Sydney students and current research opportunities, please visit the RAIDS Lab website.

PhD Students at UNSW:

Current Students:

  1. Diya Yan
    Term: Term 1, 2024 - Present
    Secondarily supervised with A/Prof. Riza Yosia Sunindijo and A/Prof. Changxin Wang from School of Built Environment
    Research Topic: Empowering Women in the Australian Construction Industry
  2. Sijia Xu
    Term: Term 3, 2024 - Present
    Jointly supervised with Dr. Xiaoyang Wang
    Research Topic: Tabular Data Condensation

Completed Students:

  1. Qingshuai Feng
    Term: Term 1, 2021 - Term 2, 2024
    Jointly supervised with Prof. Wenjie Zhang
    Research Topic: Exploring Shortest Path-Based Queries on Massive Graphs
    Post-Graduation Positions: PostDoc at Great Bay University, Dongguan, China
  2. Nimish Ukey
    Term: Term 1, 2021 - Term 3, 2024
    Research Topic: Efficient kNN Join over Dynamic High-dimensional Data
  3. Zhuoqing Xu
    Term: Term 3, 2023 - Present
    Jointly supervised with Dr. Xin Cao
    Research Topic: Reachability Queries on Temporal Bipartite Graphs
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MPhil Students at UNSW:

Current Students:

  1. Xushuo Tang
    Term: Term 1, 2025 - Present, UNSW
    Research Topic: LLMs for Responsible Reasoning and Applications
  2. Jiate Liu
    Term: Term 3, 2025 - Present
    Research Topic: TBD
  3. Ziyao Lu
    Jointly supervised with Dr Yuchao Jiang
    Term: Term 3, 2025 - Present
    Research Topic: TBD

Completed Students:

  1. Miao Ma
    Term: Term 1, 2023 - Term 2, 2024
    Research Topic: Just-in-Time Compilation in Modern Databases
    Post-Graduation Positions: Site Reliability Engineer (Data Infrastructure) at TikTok, Sydney, Australia
  2. Jingtian Wei
    Term: Term 2, 2023 - Term 3, 2024
    Research Topic: High-Order Local Clustering on Hypergraphs
  3. Wenqian Zhang
    Term: Term 3, 2023 - Term 1, 2025
    Jointly supervised with Dr. Dong Wen
    Research Topic: Scalable Core Decomposition in Large Networks
    Post-Graduation Positions: PhD Student at UNSW, Sydney, Australia
  4. Zebin Chen
    Term: Term 3, 2023 - Term 1, 2025
    Jointly supervised with Dr. Dong Wen
    Research Topic: Shortest Path Counting on Large Road Networks
    Post-Graduation Positions: PhD Student at UNSW, Sydney, Australia
  5. Ruiqing Yan
    Term: Term 1, 2024 - Term 2, 2025
    Research Topic: A Meteorological Forecasting Method Driven by Linear Convolutional Recurrent Spatiotemporal Neural Operators
  6. Bocheng Han
    Term: Term 2, 2024 - Term 1, 2026
    Research Topic: Exploring Just-in-Time Compilation in Relational Database Engines
  7. Yizhe Zhang
    Term: Term 3, 2024 - Term 1, 2026
    Secondarily supervised with Dr. Xin Cao and Dr John Shepherd
    Research Topic: Just-in-time Compilation for Modern Databases
  8. Huangleshuai He
    Term: Term 3, 2024 - Term 1, 2026
    Research Topic: Efficient Reachability Query Processing on Large Graphs
  9. Weiyuan Wang
    Term: Term 3, 2024 - Term 1, 2026
    Jointly supervised with Dr John Shepherd
    Research Topic: AI-Empowered Fraud Detection in Financial Market
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Honours Students at UNSW:

Current Students:

  1. Jack Balcombe
    Term: Term 1, 2026 - Present
    Research Topic: To SPARQL or to Cypher: A Case Study on DBLP Data
  2. Nicholas Langford
    Term: Term 1, 2026 - Present
    Research Topic: Experimental Analysis of Parallel Subgraph Matching
  3. Abdoali Mazhar Zakir
    Term: Term 1, 2026 - Present
    Research Topic: Future Citation Prediction on Academic Graphs using Temporal Graph Neural Networks

Completed Students:

  1. Alex Brown - University Medal (2024)
    Term: Term 1, 2023 - Term 3, 2023
    Research Topic: Benchmarks of SIMD-based Set Intersections
    Post-Graduation Positions: Graduate Software Engineer at IMC Trading, Sydney, Australia
  2. Bocheng Han
    Term: Term 1, 2023 - Term 3, 2023
    Research Topic: Just-in-time Compilation for Modern Databases
    Post-Graduation Positions: MPhil Student at UNSW, Sydney, Australia
  3. Jackson Beasley
    Term: Term 1, 2023 - Term 3, 2023
    Research Topic: Exploring New Backends for the TiKV Database
  4. Yilin Zhu
    Term: Term 1, 2023 - Term 3, 2023
    Research Topic: High-performance In-browser Graph Analysis using WASM
  5. Lachlan Sutton
    Term: Term 1, 2023 - Term 3, 2023
    Research Topic: An Experimental Analysis of Parallel Subgraph Matching
    Post-Graduation Positions: Graduate Software Engineer at IMC Trading, Sydney, Australia
  6. Hualong Lin
    Term: Term 2, 2023 - Term 1, 2023
    Research Topic: An Experimental Comparison of RDF Systems
    Post-Graduation Positions: System Developer at SIGMA Trading Management, Sydney, Australia
  7. Yijie Zhao
    Term: Term 2, 2023 - Term 1, 2023
    Research Topic: A Survey and Experimental Study of Graph Pattern Mining Systems
    Post-Graduation Positions: Master Student at UNSW, Sydney, Australia
  8. Rohan Warrier
    Term: Term 3, 2023 - Term 2, 2024
    Research Topic: High-performance In-browser Graph Analysis using WASM
    Post-Graduation Positions: Software Engineer at Honeywell, Sydney, Australia
  9. Ruichuan Xiang
    Term: Term 1, 2024 - Term 3, 2024
    Research Topic: Graph Pattern Matching in Financial Networks
    Post-Graduation Positions: MPhil Student at UNSW, Sydney, Australia
  10. William Macphee Miles
    Term: Term 1, 2024 - Term 3, 2024
    Research Topic: Benchmarks of SIMD-based Set Intersections
  11. Zixiao Zhu
    Term: Term 1, 2024 - Term 3, 2024
    Research Topic: Graph Database Landscape - A Comprehensive Survey
  12. Ziyao Lu
    Term: Term 2, 2024 - Term 1, 2025
    Research Topic: To Draw Is Human: Towards No-Code Subgraph Search
    Post-Graduation Positions: MPhil Student at UNSW, Sydney, Australia
  13. Alexander Garrity
    Term: Term 3, 2024 - Term 2, 2025
    Research Topic: Benchmarks of SIMD-based Set Intersections
  14. Nicolaas Van Der Merwe
    Term: Term 3, 2024 - Term 3, 2025
    Research Topic: Exploring Just-in-Time Compilation in Relational Database Engines
  15. Minh Truong
    Term: Term 1, 2025 - Term 3, 2025
    Research Topic: High-performance In-browser Graph Analysis using WASM
  16. Merry Rosalie
    Term: Term 1, 2025 - Term 3, 2025
    Research Topic: High-performance In-browser Graph Analysis using WASM
  17. William Park
    Term: Term 1, 2025 - Term 3, 2025
    Research Topic: An Experimental Analysis of Parallel Subgraph Matching
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Research Project (MSc/MTech/MData) Students at UNSW:

Current Students:

  1. Xinru Cao
    Term: Term 3, 2025 - Present
    Research Topic: AI-Empowered Fraud Detection in Financial Market
  2. Lingjing Lan
    Term: Term 1, 2026 - Present
    Research Topic: LLM-Empowered Structured Information Extraction from ESG Reports
  3. Runze Tian
    Term: Term 1, 2026 - Present
    Research Topic: LLM-Based Extraction of Business Structure from Corporate Annual Reports
  4. Jiawei Sun
    Term: Term 1, 2026 - Present
    Research Topic: An Evidence-Driven Multi-Agent AI Framework for Scientific Discovery in Metal–Organic Frameworks (MOFs)
  5. Zherui Wang
    Term: Term 1, 2026 - Present
    Research Topic: LLM-Powered ESG Performance Database for Australian Companies
  6. Han Zhao
    Term: Term 1, 2026 - Present
    Research Topic: Security and Jailbreak Robustness of Chinese Large Language Models
  7. Yizhuo Li
    Term: Term 1, 2026 - Present
    Research Topic: Security and Jailbreak Robustness of Chinese Large Language Models
  8. Minh Dang
    Term: Term 1, 2026 - Present
    Research Topic: Benchmarking On-Device LLMs on Resource-Constrained Edge Platforms

Completed Students:

  1. Fangyue Chen
    Term: Term 1, 2023 - Term 2, 2023
    Research Topic: Learning-based Streaming Subgraph Isomorphism
    Post-Graduation Positions: Analyst at Yihai Kerry Investments, Shanghai, China
  2. Xiaocheng Li
    Term: Term 1, 2023 - Term 2, 2023
    Research Topic: Mining Similar (alpha,beta)-core in Bipartite Graphs
  3. Rui Zhu
    Term: Term 1, 2023 - Term 2, 2023
    Research Topic: Just-in-time Compilation for Modern Databases
  4. Zhou Zhou
    Term: Term 2, 2023 - Term 3, 2023
    Research Topic: Text2Cypher using LLM in Graph Databases
  5. Haoran Ning
    Term: Term 3, 2023 - Term 1, 2024
    Research Topic: Just-in-time Compilation for Modern Databases
    Post-Graduation Positions: PhD Student at Macquarie University, Sydney, Australia
  6. Sijia Xu
    Term: Term 3, 2023 - Term 1, 2024
    Research Topic: Text2Cypher using LLM in Graph Databases
    Post-Graduation Positions: PhD Student at UNSW, Sydney, Australia
  7. Jiayang Shang
    Term: Term 1, 2024 - Term 2, 2024
    Research Topic: High-performance In-browser Graph Analysis using WASM
    Post-Graduation Positions: Software Engineer at GMG, Sydney, Australia
  8. Haonan Yan
    Term: Term 1, 2024 - Term 2, 2024
    Research Topic: Approximating Temporal Katz Centrality
  9. Zishan Fu
    Term: Term 1, 2024 - Term 3, 2024
    Research Topic: High-order Hypergraph Walks
  10. Xicheng Liu
    Term: Term 2, 2024 - Term 3, 2024
    Research Topic: A Survey of Vector Databases
  11. Weizhang Jiang
    Term: Term 2, 2024 - Term 3, 2024
    Research Topic: Hop-constrained s-t Simple Path Counting
  12. Mingchen Ju
    Term: Term 1, 2025 - Term 2, 2025
    Research Topic: AI-Empowered Data Analysis in Financial Market
  13. Yiming Huang
    Term: Term 1, 2025 - Term 2, 2025
    Research Topic: GraphRAG for Enhanced Language Model
    Post-Graduation Positions: Graduate Programme (Digital Intelligence & AI) at Baosteel, Wuhan, China
  14. Kaixin Gu
    Term: Term 1, 2025 - Term 2, 2025
    Research Topic: Mining Similar (alpha,beta)-core in Bipartite Graphs
  15. Ye Li
    Term: Term 1, 2025 - Term 2, 2025
    Research Topic: An Indexed Approach to Approximate Nearest Neighbor (ANN) Query
  16. Biao Geng
    Term: Term 2, 2025
    Research Topic: Benchmarking Agentic Workflows in Large Language Models
  17. Tram Dinh
    Term: Term 2, 2025
    Research Topic: A Survey of Hypergraph Analytics
  18. Zhiyang Xing
    Term: Term 2, 2025 - Term 3, 2025
    Research Topic: GPU Graph Processing: A Survey
  19. Yang Zhang
    Term: Term 2, 2025 - Term 3, 2025
    Research Topic: GPU Graph Processing: A Survey
  20. Hao Zhu
    Term: Term 2, 2025 - Term 3, 2025
    Research Topic: HypergraphRAG vs. GraphRAG for Knowledge Retrieval
  21. Nuofei Zhu
    Term: Term 2, 2025 - Term 3, 2025
    Research Topic: A Learning-based Method for Fraud Detection in the Forex Market
  22. Yueming Dai
    Term: Term 2, 2025 - Term 3, 2025
    Research Topic: AI4Science
  23. Mengze Wu
    Term: Term 2, 2025 - Term 3, 2025
    Research Topic: Generative AI on the Cloud: Engineering, Optimization, and Deployment
  24. David Wong
    Term: Term 2, 2025 - Term 3, 2025
    Research Topic: Benchmarks of SIMD-based Set Operations in Rust
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Mentoring (Informal Advisor):

Current Students:

  1. Wenqian Zhang
    Term: Term 3, 2025 - Present
    Research Topic: Cohesive Subgraph Mining
  2. Guangjian Zhang
    Term: Term 2, 2022 - Present, UNSW
    Research Topic: kNN Join over Dynamic High-dimensional Data
    Post-Graduation Positions: PhD Student at UNSW, Sydney, Australia

Completed Students:

  1. Zhengmin Lai
    Term: 2018 - 2019, ECNU
    Research Topic: Improving Distributed Subgraph Matching on Timely Dataflow
    Post-Graduation Positions: Software Engineer at Tencent, Shenzhen, China
  2. Ran Wang
    Term: 2019 - 2020, ECNU
    Research Topic: An Empirical Study on Graph Databases
    Post-Graduation Positions: Software Engineer at ByteDance, Shanghai, China
  3. Xin Jin
    Term: 2020 - 2021, ECNU
    Research Topic: FPGA-based Subgraph Matching
    Post-Graduation Positions: Software Engineer at Alibaba, Shanghai, China
  4. Shunyang Li
    Term: 2020 - 2021, UNSW
    Research Topic: SQL2Cypher - Automated data and query migration from RDBMS to GDBMS
    Post-Graduation Positions: PhD Student at UNSW, Sydney, Australia
  5. Zebin Chen
    Term: Term 2, 2022 - Term 1, 2023, UNSW
    Research Topic: Subgraph Matching on Bipartite Graphs
    Post-Graduation Positions: MPhil Student at UNSW, Sydney, Australia
  6. Jingtian Wei
    Term: Term 2, 2022 - Term 1, 2023, UNSW
    Research Topic: Graph-based Fraud Detection in Mobile Payment Network
    Post-Graduation Positions: MPhil Student at UNSW, Sydney, Australia
  7. Peiting Xie
    Term: Term 3, 2022 - Term 2, 2023, UNSW
    Research Topic: A Survey of Graph Database Management Systems
    Post-Graduation Positions: MPhil Student at UNSW, Sydney, Australia
  8. Liuyi Chen
    Term: Term 1, 2023 - Term 3, 2023, UNSW
    Research Topic: Database Systems, Machine Learning in Climate Prediction
    Post-Graduation Positions: PhD Student at Hunan University, Changsha, China
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