Zhuoqing Xu Term: Term 3, 2023 - Present
Jointly supervised with Dr. Xin Cao
Research Topic: Reachability Queries on Temporal Bipartite Graphs
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
Sijia Xu Term: Term 3, 2024 - Present
Jointly supervised with
Dr. Xiaoyang Wang
Research Topic: TBD
Ruiqing Yan Term: Term 1, 2024 - Present
Research Topic: Spatial-Temporal Modelling
Bocheng Han Term: Term 2, 2024 - Present
Jointly supervised with
Dr John Shepherd
Research Topic: Exploring Just-in-Time Compilation in Relational Database Engines
Weiyuan Wang Term: Term 3, 2024 - Present
Jointly supervised with
Dr John Shepherd
Research Topic: AI-Empowered Fraud Detection in Financial Market
Yizhe Zhang Term: Term 3, 2024 - Present, UNSW
Secondarily supervised with
Dr. Xin Cao
and
Dr John Shepherd
Research Topic: Just-in-time Compilation for Modern Databases
Huangleshuai He Term: Term 3, 2024 - Present, UNSW
Secondarily supervised with Dr. Dong Wen
and
Dr John Shepherd
Research Topic: Graph Reachability Queries
Completed Students:
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
Jingtian Wei Term: Term 2, 2023 - Term 3, 2024
Research Topic: Local Clustering on Hypergraphs
Wenqian Zhang Term: Term 3, 2023 - Term 1, 2025
Jointly supervised with Dr. Dong Wen
Research Topic: Cohesive Subgraph Mining on Hypergraphs
Post-Graduation Positions: PhD Student at UNSW, Sydney, Australia
Zebin Chen Term: Term 3, 2023 - Present
Jointly supervised with Dr. Dong Wen
Research Topic: Shortest Path Counting on Large Road Networks
Nicolaas Van Der Merwe Term: Term 3, 2024 - Present
Research Topic: Exploring Just-in-Time Compilation in Relational Database Engines
Alexander Garrity Term: Term 3, 2024 - Present
Research Topic: Benchmarks of SIMD-based Set Intersections
Minh Truong Term: Term 1, 2025 - Present
Research Topic: High-performance In-browser Graph Analysis using WASM
Merry Rosalie Term: Term 1, 2025 - Present
Research Topic: High-performance In-browser Graph Analysis using WASM
Completed Students:
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
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
Jackson Beasley Term:
Term 1, 2023 - Term 3, 2023
Research Topic: Exploring New Backends for the TiKV Database
Yilin Zhu Term: Term 1, 2023 - Term 3, 2023
Research Topic: High-performance In-browser Graph Analysis using WASM
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
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
Yijie Zhao Term: Term 2, 2023 - Term 1, 2023
Research Topic: A Survey and Experimental Study of Graph Pattern Mining Systems
Rohan Warrier Term: Term 3, 2023 - Term 2, 2024
Research Topic: High-performance In-browser Graph Analysis using WASM
Ruichuan Xiang Term: Term 1, 2024 - Term 3, 2024
Research Topic: Graph Pattern Matching in Financial Networks
William Macphee Miles Term: Term 1, 2024 - Term 3, 2024
Research Topic: Benchmarks of SIMD-based Set Intersections
Zixiao Zhu Term: Term 1, 2024 - Term 3, 2024
Research Topic: Graph Database Landscape: A Comprehensive Survey
Ziyao Lu Term: Term 2, 2024 - Term 1, 2025
Research Topic: To Draw Is Human: Towards No-Code Subgraph Search
Research Project (MSc/MTech/MData) Students at UNSW:
Current Students:
Mingchen Ju Term: Term 1, 2025 - Present
Research Topic: AI-Empowered Data Analysis in Financial Market
Yiming Huang Term: Term 1, 2025 - Present
Research Topic: GraphRAG for Enhanced Language Model
Kaixin Gu Term: Term 1, 2025 - Present
Research Topic: Mining Similar (alpha,beta)-core in Bipartite Graphs
Ye Li Term: Term 1, 2025 - Present
Research Topic: An Indexed Approach to Approximate Nearest Neighbor (ANN) Query
Completed Students:
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
Xiaocheng Li Term: Term 1, 2023 - Term 2, 2023
Research Topic: Mining Similar (alpha,beta)-core in Bipartite Graphs
Rui Zhu Term: Term 1, 2023 - Term 2, 2023
Research Topic: Just-in-time Compilation for Modern Databases
Zhou Zhou Term: Term 2, 2023 - Term 3, 2023
Research Topic: Text2Cypher using LLM in Graph Databases
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
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
Jiayang Shang Term: Term 1, 2024 - Term 2, 2024
Research Topic: High-performance In-browser Graph Analysis using WASM
Haonan Yan Term: Term 1, 2024 - Term 2, 2024
Research Topic: Approximating Temporal Katz Centrality
Zishan Fu Term: Term 1, 2024 - Term 3, 2024
Research Topic: High-order Hypergraph Walks
Xicheng Liu Term: Term 2, 2024 - Term 3, 2024
Research Topic: A Survey of Vector Databases
Weizhang Jiang Term: Term 2, 2024 - Term 3, 2024
Research Topic: Hop-constrained s-t Simple Path Counting
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:
Zhengmin Lai Term: 2018 - 2019, ECNU
Research Topic: Improving Distributed Subgraph Matching on Timely Dataflow
Post-Graduation Positions: Software Engineer at Tencent, Shenzhen, China
Ran Wang Term: 2019 - 2020, ECNU
Research Topic: An Empirical Study on Graph Databases
Post-Graduation Positions: Software Engineer at ByteDance, Shanghai, China
Xin Jin Term: 2020 - 2021, ECNU
Research Topic: FPGA-based Subgraph Matching
Post-Graduation Positions: Software Engineer at Alibaba, Shanghai, China
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
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
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
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
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