Current Research Interests

  • Stream Database Systems

  • Spatial Information Systems

  • Massive Data Analysis and Data Mining

  • Probabilistic Queries

  • Web Information Systems

  • Data Visualization
( Students who are interested in doing PhD in the above areas are welcome to talk to me. )

Research Grants/Award

  • 2009-2011,Australian Research Council Discovery Grant (DP0987557): Analyzing Uncertain Data: Probabilistic Approaches, $342,000,(Xuemin Lin and Xiaofang Zhou).

  • Google Research Award, Taming Uncertainity of Distributed Data , US$50,000 (Xuemin Lin and Sanjay Jha).

  • 2008-2010, Australian Research Council Discovery Grant (DP0881035): Effectively Computing and Maintaining Graph based Statistics in Large Scale Applications , $250,000 (Xuemin Lin)

  • 2007, UNSW Goldstar Awards: GraphSUM: Summarizing Graph-based Statistics in Large Scale Applications, $40,000 (Xuemin Lin).

  • 2006-2008, Australian Research Council Discovery Grant (DP0666428): Computing Order Statistics over Data Streams, $315,000 (Xuemin Lin, Xiaofang Zhou and Jeffrey X Yu ).

  • 2006, Faculty Research Grant Program (FRGP, PS08709), Summarizing Massive Graphs over Data Streams , $15,000 (Xuemin Lin).

  • 2004-2009, ARC Research Network in Enterprise Information Infrastructure , $3.2 million, funded by the Australian Research Council. (Program Leader of Data and Knowledge, Steering Committee Member)

  • 2003-2005, Australian Research Council Discovery Grant (DP0346004): ARC): Efficient Processing of Complex Spatial Queries, $175,000 (Xuemin Lin and John Shepherd).

  • 2003-2005, Australian Research Council Discovery Grant (DP0345710): Multi-resolution Spatial Query Processing, $178,240 ( Xiaofang Zhou , Xuemin Lin, and Yanchun Zhang ).

  • 2002 UNSW RIBG: Very Large Database Server, $100,000 (Xuemin Lin, Boualem Benatallah, John Shepherd, and Raymond Wong).

  • 2002 CMCRC Seed Grant: A Performance Study of Advanced Synopses Techniques for On-line Approximation Analysis of Financial Data, $10,000. (Xuemin Lin)

  • 2001-2003 UNSW Gold-Star: Similarity Search in Spatial Database on Implicit Feature Spaces, $60,000. (Xuemin Lin)

  • 2000-2002 ARC - APAI (C00002285): Incremental Data Mining Techniques for Dynamic Databases , $63,000 (John Shepherd and Xuemin Lin).

  • 1999 Small ARC: Efficient Mining of Proximity, Similarity, and Visibility Replationships in Very Large Spatial Databases, $20,000. (Xuemin Lin)

  • 1998 CSE Start-up Grant: Replicated Data Management, $10,000. (Xuemin Lin)

  • 1997 Small ARC: Distributed Data Mining , $20,000 (Xuemin Lin and Chi-Ping Tsang from UWA).

  • 1995 UWA IRG: Transaction Management in Distributed Database Systems, $18,000. (Xuemin Lin)

Current Graduate Students:

  • Ying Zhang (PhD). Topic: Order Statistics Computation in Data Streams. (Associate Supervisor: Prof. Jeffrey Yu )

  • Yi Luo (PhD). Topic: Text Retrieval. (Joint Supervisor: Dr Wei Wang )

  • Mahady Hasan (PhD, from s1/2006). Topic: TBA.

  • Wenjie Zhang (PhD, from s2/2006). Topic: Probabilistic Query Processing (Associated Supervisor: Prof. Xiaofang Zhou) Objects.

  • Chuan Xiao (PhD, from s1/2007). Topic: TBA.

  • Aamir Cheema (Research MSc). Topic: Mining Data Streams.

  • Bin Jiang (Research MSc). Topic: TBA.

  • Shuxiang Yang (Research MSc, from s1/2007). Topic: TBA. (Associate Supervisor: Dr. Qing Liu)

Graduated Research Students

  • Steve Lu. Topic: Advanced Query Processing in Spatial Database Systems (PhD Completed in 2004). Senior Researcher in Data Storage Institute (Singapore).

  • Qing Zhang. Topic: Approximate Query Processing (PhD Completed in 2004). Postdoc and then Research scientist in CSIRO.

  • Qing Liu. Topic: Summarizing Large Spatial Datasets (PhD Completed in Feb, 2006). Postdoc at University of Queensland (2006). Research Scientist in CSIRO (2007 -).

  • Yidong Yuan (PhD thesis submitted Dec. 2006). Topic: Skyline Query Computation. (Senior Software Engineer@Lexxe LTD. Associate Supervisor: Prof. Xiaofang Zhou. )

  • Yi Luo. Topic: Computing Skylines (Masters by Research- Completed in 2004). PhD student at UNSW.

  • Jian Xu. Topic: Computing Quantiles over Datastreams (Masters by Research- Completed in 2004). PhD student at UBC.

  • Kevin Kai Xu. Topic: Database Support for Terrain Data Visualisation (PhD completed March 2004 - I am an associate supervisor). Research scientist in NICTA.

  • Yijun Li. Topic: Efficient Algorithms for Mining Association Rukes (Masters by Research - completed in 2000). TvPix Project Leader in Nielsen Media Research Australia.

  • Xiaomei Zhou. Topic: Similarity Search in Large Spatial Datasets (Masters by Research - completed in 2000). Work in ALCOTEL.