Research Grants:

• 2003-2005 Australian Research Council Discovery Grant (formally Large ARC): Efficient Processing of Complex Spatial Queries (with Dr. John Shepherd from UNSW).

• 2003-2005 Australian Research Council Discovery Grant (formally Large ARC): Multi-resolution Spatial Query Processing (with A/Prof Xiaofang Zhou from UQ and A/Prof Yanchun Zhang from USQ).

• 2002 UNSW RIBG: Very Large Database Server (with Dr. John Shepherd, Dr. Raymond Wong, and Dr. Boualem Benatallah).

• 2002 CMCRC Seed Grant: A Performance Study of Advanced Synopses Techniques for On-line Approximation Analysis of Financial Data.

• 2001-2003 UNSW Gold-Star: Similarity Search in Spatial Database on Implicit Feature Spaces.

• 2000-2002 ARC - APAI: Incremental Data Mining Techniques for Dynamic Databases (with Dr. John Shepherd).

• 1999 Small ARC: Efficient Mining of Proximity, Similarity, and Visibility Replationships in Very Large Spatial Databases.

• 1998 CSE Start-up Grant: Replicated Data Management.

• 1997 Small ARC: Distributed Data Mining (with Prof. Chi-Ping Tsang from UWA).

• 1995 UWA IRG: Transaction Management in Distributed Database Systems.

Current PhD Students:

• Qing Liu. Topic: Summarizing Large Spatial Datasets. (Associate Suppervisor: Prof. Xiaofang Zhou )

• Ying Zhang. Topic: Data Stream Computation. (Associate Supervisor: Prof. Jeffrey Yu )

• Yi Luo. Topic: Text Retrieval. (Associate Supervisor: