Research Interests & Grants

Research interests follow the July 2026 curriculum vitae. Grant records include historical projects; project roles are specified only where available.

Current Research Interests

Real-time computation in cloud environments
Big data analytics
Graph data analysis, mining, and visualization
Stream data analysis
Spatial information systems
Uncertain data management
Web information systems

Research Grants

Australian Research Council grants

2022–2024: DP220103128, Towards High-Order Structure Search on Large-Scale Graphs, A$510,000. Withdrawn after his departure from UNSW.
2020–2022: DP200101338, Structure Search Over Large Scale Heterogeneous Information Networks, A$540,000.
2018–2020: DP180103096, Efficient Processing of Large Scale Multi-dimensional Graphs, A$407,974 (Xuemin Lin, Wenjie Zhang, Ying Zhang).
2017–2019: DP170101628, Towards Efficient Processing of Big Graphs, A$528,000 (Xuemin Lin).
2015–2017: DP150102728, Efficiently Processing Pattern-based Structure Queries over Large Graphs, A$397,500 (Xuemin Lin, Wenjie Zhang).
2014–2016: DP140103578, Probabilistic Search Over Large-Scale Uncertain Graphs, A$413,000 (Xuemin Lin).
2012–2014: DP120104168, Ranking Complex Objects in a Multi-dimensional Space, A$350,000 (Xuemin Lin, Wenjie Zhang).
2011–2013: DP110102937, Efficient Structure Search over Large Graphs, A$210,000 (Xuemin Lin).
2009–2011: DP0987557, Analyzing Uncertain Data: Probabilistic Approaches, A$342,000 (Xuemin Lin, Xiaofang Zhou). Research goals.
2008–2010: DP0881035, Effectively Computing and Maintaining Graph-based Statistics in Large Scale Applications, A$250,000 (Xuemin Lin). Research goals.
2006–2008: DP0666428, Computing Order Statistics over Data Streams, A$315,000 (Xuemin Lin, Xiaofang Zhou, Jeffrey Xu Yu). Research goals.
2004–2009: ARC Research Network in Enterprise Information Infrastructure, A$3.2 million (Steering Committee member and Data and Knowledge Management Research Program coordinator).
2003–2005: DP0346004, Efficient Processing of Complex Spatial Queries, A$175,000 (Xuemin Lin, John Shepherd). Research goals.
2003–2005: DP0345710, Multi-resolution Spatial Query Processing, A$178,240 (Xiaofang Zhou, Xuemin Lin, Yanchun Zhang). Research goals.
2000–2002: ARC–APAI (C00002285), Incremental Data Mining Techniques for Dynamic Databases, A$63,000 (John Shepherd, Xuemin Lin).

Major grants in China

2023–2026: U2241211, RMB 2,590,000.
2021–2025: U20B2046, RMB 2,570,000.
2020–2022: 2019B1515120048, RMB 1,000,000.
2019–2023: 2018AAA0102502, RMB 36,750,000.
2018–2021: 2018YFB1003504, RMB 40,610,000.
2018/2019: Alibaba Research Project, Graph Processing Language and Graph Matching, RMB 1,150,000.
2017–2020: NSFC6162235, RMB 800,000.
2017/2018: Alibaba Research Project, Developing Large Scale Distributed Graph Processing Platform.
2013–2017: NSFC61232006, RMB 2,750,000.

Other competitive grants

2018: UNSW–Huawei Project, Cohesive Subgraph Mining for Anomaly Analysis, A$322,966 (Xuemin Lin, Wenjie Zhang, Lu Qin, Lijun Chang).
2009: UNSW Major Research Equipment & Infrastructure Scheme Grant, Equipping the Database Research Group with State of the Art Computing Facilities, A$123,000 (Xuemin Lin, Wei Wang).
2007–2009: NICTA Research Project, In-Memory XML Query Processing (Sebastian Maneth, Xuemin Lin, Raymond Wong).
2007: UNSW Goldstar Award, GraphSUM: Summarizing Graph-based Statistics in Large Scale Applications, A$40,000 (Xuemin Lin).
2006: Faculty Research Grant Program (FRGP, PS08709), Summarizing Massive Graphs over Data Streams, A$15,000 (Xuemin Lin).
2002: UNSW RIBG, Very Large Database Server, A$100,000 (Xuemin Lin, Boualem Benatallah, John Shepherd, Raymond Wong).
2002: CMCRC Seed Grant, A Performance Study of Advanced Synopses Techniques for On-line Approximation Analysis of Financial Data, A$10,000 (Xuemin Lin).
2001–2003: UNSW Gold-Star Award, Similarity Search in Spatial Database on Implicit Feature Spaces, A$60,000 (Xuemin Lin).
1999: Small ARC, Efficient Mining of Proximity, Similarity, and Visibility Relationships in Very Large Spatial Databases, A$20,000 (Xuemin Lin).
1998: CSE Start-up Grant, Replicated Data Management, A$10,000 (Xuemin Lin).
1997: Small ARC, Distributed Data Mining, A$20,000 (Xuemin Lin, Chi-Ping Tsang).
1995: UWA IRG, Transaction Management in Distributed Database Systems, A$18,000 (Xuemin Lin).
Undated in the CV: Google Research Award, Taming Uncertainty of Distributed Data, US$50,000 (Xuemin Lin, Sanjay Jha).