Program Leader

I am the leader of the Universal Storage Schemes (USS) project, also known as mContext. I am also an Associate Professor on leave from the School of Computer Science & Engineering, University of New South Wales (UNSW). My research interests are in the field of database research, in particular, XML database systems,  Web and search technologies, and mobile data management. Since database research is a very applied area, I strongly believe that the impact of database research ultimately lies on its successful technology transfer into industrial products.

Before joining UNSW, I was a lecturer at the University of Sydney and was a Research Associate of the Database Research Group at Stanford University. Prior to that, I had also worked in the following universities: UCLA, Macquarie University, Hong Kong University of Science & Technology, Chinese University of Hong Kong. I have more than ten years of research and development experience in the areas of database systems, Internet and Web information management, and mobile technologies. I have published more than 100 research publications in international conferences or journals, and involved in commercialization activities overseas and in Australia since 1994. Most of my recent publications can be found from DBLP.