Xuemin Lin
Professor  
School of Computer Science and Engineering
The University of New South Wales
Sydney, NSW 2052, Australia
Office: k-17 503
Phone: +61 2 9385 6493; Fax: +61 2 9385 5995 
Email: lxue AT cse.unsw.edu.au

Xuemin Lin is a Professor of Computer Science and Engineering at the University of New South Wales. Currently, he is the head of database research group in the School of Computer Science and Engineering at UNSW and the coordinator of the research program of data and knowledge management in ARC Research Enterprise Information Infrastructure (EII) . Xuemin got his PhD in Computer Science from the University of Queensland (Australia) in 1992 and his BSc in Applied Math from Fudan University (China) in 1984. During 1984-1988, he studied for PhD in Applied Math at Fudan University.

Xuemin started his teaching in the Computer Science Department at the University of Western Australia in Nov 1994 after a 2 years research fellow appointment at the University of Queensland. He joined the School of Computer Science and Engineering at the University of New South Wales in Nov 1997. In 2005, he was a visiting researcher in Microsoft Asia Research Lab and visited Tokyo University as a JSPS fellow. In 1999/2000 he also taught at the Chinese University of Hong Kong as a visiting Associate Professor. His teaching covered a quite range of courses at different leveles. He also supervised many graduate students. Xuemin currently is an associate editor of ACM Transactions on Database Systems .

Xuemin Lin's principal research areas are databases and graph visualisation .

  • In databases, his research areas include data mining, data streams, distributed database systems, spatial database systems, and web databases. Currently, he is working on data streams,, approximate query processing, spatial data processing , probabilistic queries, Graph Databases , and web information processing.

  • Graph visualisation is to display a graph according to the aesthetics from applications; for example, one may wish to draw a graph symmetrically if possible. Graph visualisation serves as a tool in many applications. A number of topics have been covered by Xuemin in graph drawing, which include drawing trees, undirected graphs, directed graphs, and hierarchical graphs. Xuemin's main focus has been on understanding inherent difficulties of drawing problems, and then developing effective drawing algorithms.

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Coming Conferences

  • Program Committee Member of ICDE10.
  • Conference co-chair of DASFAA 2009.
  • Tutorial co-Chair and Program Committee Member of ICDE09.
  • Program Committee Member of SIGMOD 2009.
  • PC co-chair of ADC'09.
  • PC co-chair of VLDB08 workshop on Quality of Databases (QDB 2008), 23 August 2008, Auckland, New Zealand.
  • Program Committee Member of The 34th International Conference on Very Large Databases (VLDB 2008), 24-30 August 2008, Auckland, New Zealand.