List of My Students

PhD Students at UNSW:

Current Students:

  1. Zhuoqing Xu
    Term: Term 3, 2023 - Present
    Jointly supervised with Dr. Xin Cao
    Research Topic: Reachability Queries on Temporal Bipartite Graphs
  2. 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
  3. Sijia Xu
    Term: Term 3, 2024 - Present
    Secondarily supervised with Dr. Xiaoyang Wang and Prof. Wenjie Zhang
    Research Topic: TBD

Completed Students:

  1. Nimish Ukey
    Term: Term 2, 2022 - Term 2, 2024
    Research Topic: kNN Join over Dynamic High-dimensional Data
  2. Qingshuai Feng
    Term: Term 3, 2023 - Term 2, 2024
    Jointly supervised with Prof. Wenjie Zhang
    Research Topic: Exploring Shortest Path-Based Queries on Massive Graphs
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MPhil Students at UNSW:

Current Students:

  1. Zebin Chen
    Term: Term 3, 2023 - Present
    Jointly supervised with Dr. Dong Wen
    Research Topic: Shortest Path Counting on Large Road Networks
  2. Wenqian Zhang
    Term: Term 3, 2023 - Present
    Jointly supervised with Dr. Dong Wen
    Research Topic: Cohesive Subgraph Mining on Hypergraphs
  3. Ruiqing Yan
    Term: Term 1, 2024 - Present
    Research Topic: Spatial-Temporal Modelling
  4. Bocheng Han
    Term: Term 2, 2024 - Present
    Jointly supervised with Dr John Shepherd
    Research Topic: Exploring Just-in-Time Compilation in Relational Database Engines
  5. Weiyuan Wang
    Term: Term 3, 2024 - Present
    Jointly supervised with Dr John Shepherd
    Research Topic: AI-Empowered Fraud Detection in Financial Market

Completed Students:

  1. Miao Ma
    Term: Term 1, 2023 - Term 2, 2024
    Research Topic: Just-in-time Compilation in Modern Databases
  2. Jingtian Wei
    Term: Term 2, 2023 - Term 3, 2024
    Research Topic: Local Clustering on Hypergraphs
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Honours Students at UNSW:

Current Students:

  1. Ziyao Lu
    Term: Term 2, 2024 - Present
    Research Topic: To Draw Is Human: Towards No-Code Subgraph Search
  2. Nicolaas Van Der Merwe
    Term: Term 3, 2024 - Present
    Research Topic: Exploring Just-in-Time Compilation in Relational Database Engines
  3. Alexander Garrity
    Term: Term 3, 2024 - Present
    Research Topic: Benchmarks of SIMD-based Set Intersections

Completed Students:

  1. Alex Brown - University Medal (2024)
    Term: Term 1, 2023 - Term 3, 2023
    Research Topic: Benchmarks of SIMD-based Set Intersections
    First Employment: 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
    First Employment: 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
  6. Hualong Lin
    Term: Term 2, 2023 - Term 1, 2023
    Research Topic: An Experimental Comparison of RDF Systems
    First Employment: 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
  8. Rohan Warrier
    Term: Term 3, 2023 - Term 2, 2024
    Research Topic: High-performance In-browser Graph Analysis using WASM
  9. Ruichuan Xiang
    Term: Term 1, 2024 - Term 3, 2024
    Research Topic: Graph Pattern Matching in Financial Networks
  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
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Research Project (MSc/MTech/MData) Students at UNSW:

Current Students:

Completed Students:

  1. Fangyue Chen
    Term: Term 1, 2023 - Term 2, 2023
    Research Topic: Learning-based Streaming Subgraph Isomorphism
    First Employment: 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
    First Employment: Software Engineer at Euler AI, Sydney, Australia
  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, 2023
    Research Topic: Just-in-time Compilation for Modern Databases
  6. Sijia Xu
    Term: Term 3, 2023 - Term 1, 2023
    Research Topic: Text2Cypher using LLM in Graph Databases
    First Employment: 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
  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
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Mentoring (Informal Advisor):

Current Students:

  1. Huangleshuai He
    Term: Term 3, 2024 - Present, UNSW
    Research Topic: Graph Reachability Queries
  2. Yizhe Zhang
    Term: Term 2, 2024 - Present, UNSW
    Research Topic: Just-in-time Compilation for Modern Databases
  3. Guangjian Zhang
    Term: Term 2, 2022 - Present, UNSW
    Research Topic: kNN Join over Dynamic High-dimensional Data
    First Employment: PhD Student at UNSW, Sydney, Australia

Completed Students:

  1. Zhengmin Lai
    Term: 2018 - 2019, ECNU
    Research Topic: Improving Distributed Subgraph Matching on Timely Dataflow
    First Employment: Software Engineer at Tencent, Shenzhen, China
  2. Ran Wang
    Term: 2019 - 2020, ECNU
    Research Topic: An Empirical Study on Graph Databases
    First Employment: Software Engineer at ByteDance, Shanghai, China
  3. Xin Jin
    Term: 2020 - 2021, ECNU
    Research Topic: FPGA-based Subgraph Matching
    First Employment: 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
    First Employment: PhD Student at UNSW, Sydney, Australia
  5. Zebin Chen
    Term: Term 2, 2022 - Term 1, 2023, UNSW
    Research Topic: Subgraph Matching on Bipartite Graphs
    First Employment: 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
    First Employment: 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
    First Employment: 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
    First Employment: PhD Student at Hunan University, Changsha, China
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