Research Interests



Data Management in Cloud Computing.



Database Indexing and Query Optimization Techniques.



Graph Data Management and Social Networks.



Web Databases, Web 2.0 Technology and Semantic Web.



Business Process Modeling and Management.



Research Projects



CloudDB AutoAdmin: Declarative Management of Application-Defined SLA for Cloud-Hosted Databases.



Querying Large Distributed Graphs: A collaboration reseach with the eXtreme Computing Group at Microsoft Research to enable querying large distributed graphs.



Liquid Benchmarks: Infrastructure for collaborative construction and sharing of independent and continuously evolving benchmarks for any research aspect in the Computer Science field.



MyDeepWeb: An integration service for online distributed (Personal) data



QBP: A Flexible Framework for Querying Business Processes.



XMLCompBench: A Comprhensive evaluation of XML compression tools.



XSelMark: A Micro-Benchmark for selectivity estimation approaches of XML queries.



ComQu: An efficient main memory implementation of DOM libray.



Pathfinder: Relational XQuery processor.



XRDB: An intelligent publisher of relational data into XML documents.



PhD Students



Basem Seuliman UNSW, 2010 - Current, Main Advisor: Ross Jeffery



Liang Zhao UNSW, 2010 - Current, Main Advisor: Anna Liu



Master Students



Hooran MahmoudiNasab Macquarie University, 2009



Honor Thesis Students



Karen Kung UNSW, 2009



Mac Arthur UNSW, 2008



Summer Students



Xing Yu Su ANU, 2011



Hui Feng UNSW, 2010



Eimy Liu UNSW, 2007