Xuemin Lin
Scientia 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 UNSW Scientia Professor in the School of Computer Science and Engineering at the University of New South Wales. Currently, he is the head of data and knowledge research group in the School of Computer Science and Engineering at UNSW. Xuemin is a fellow of IEEE. 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. He is a distinguished visiting Professor at Tsinghua University and a visiting Chair Professor at Fudan University. He has been an adiunct Professor at East Normal University, Zhejiang Gongshang University, and Guangzhou University. Xuemin currently is the Editor-in-Chief of IEEE Transactions on Knowledge and Data Engineering. an Associate Editor-in-Chief of IEEE Transactions on Knowledge and Data Engineering. He was an associate editor of ACM Transactions on Database Systems (2008-2014) and an associate editor of IEEE Transactions on Knowledge and Data Engineering (2013 Feb - 2015 Jan).

His teaching covered a quite range of courses at different leveles. He also supervised many graduate students. 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.


News

  • [Oct 2020] Our paper on dense subgraph discovery on directed graphs is selected as one of the four Best Papers in SIGMOD 2020 !

  • [Sep 2020] Our paper on triangle listing received the Best Paper Award in DASFAA 2020 !

  • [Sep 2020] Our paper on empirical studies of graph database systems received the Best Student Paper Award in KSME 2020 !

  • [Aug 2020] Our paper on maximum biclique search received the Best Paper Runner-up Award in VLDB 2020 !

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Professional Services

    The Editor-in-Chief of IEEE Transactions on Knowledge and Data Engineering (TKDE), (January, 2017 -)
    Associate Editor of ACM Transactions on Database Systems (TODS) (January 2008 - Jannuary 2014)
    Associate Editor of IEEE Transactions on Knowledge and Data Engineering (TKDE), (February 2013 - Jan 2015)
    Associate Editor-in-Chief of IEEE Transactions on Knowledge and Data Engineering (TKDE), (Jan 2015 - Dec 2016)
    Associate Editor of World Wide Web Journal (March 2013 -)
     
    Selected Conference PC members (full list)
    • SIGMOD:2007, 2009, 2013, 2014, 2015, 2016, 2017, 2019 (Core PC members),2020.
    • VLDB:1999, 2008, 2010, 2012(March Track), 2013, 2014, 2015, 2018 (PC and Workshop Chair), 2019
    • ICDE:2005, 2009 2010, 2011, 2012, 2013(Track Chair), 2014, 2015, 2016, 2017 , 2018, 2019 (PC co-chairs)
    • KDD: 2012 (Ouststanding Reviewer), 2016, 2017, 2018,2019
    • ICDCS: 2019 (Area Chair)
    • EDBT: 2012,2013, 2016
    • CIKM: 2011, 2012, 2013, 2014 (Area Chair), 2017(Senior PC), 2018 (Senior PC)
    • ICDM: 2005, 2006, 2012(PC Vice Chair), 2013, 2014, 2015, 2018 (PC Area Chairs)
    • SDM: 2018 (Senior PC member)