Ph.D. (Dr.rer.nat.) Computer Science (Summa Cum Laude)
Christian-Albrechts-University Kiel, Germany
Master of Information Systems
Massey University, New Zealand
Master of Economics
Jinan University, China
Bachelor of Engineering
South China University of Technology, China
Selected awards, grants and scholarships
ARC Discovery Project, "Deep Learning for Graph Isomorphism", Chief investigator (with Prof. Brendan McKay), 2021-2023
ANU Vice-Chancellor's Teaching Enhancement Grant, "DataAnalytics-Bench: Personalised Learning in Large Classes", lead investigator, 2017-2018
ARC Discovery Project, "Creating the social genome: Advanced techniques for linking dynamic
data", Chief investigator (with Prof. Peter Christen and Prof. Erhard Rahm), 2016-2018
Australia-Germany Joint Research Cooperation Scheme, "Advancing data integration: Privacy
and semantics for record linkage", support for research collaboration between the Data Mining & Matching Group, ANU, with the Database Group, University of Leipzig, Germany, co-investigator, 2015-2016
Fellow of the Higher Education Academy (HEA), since December 2015
ANU Dean's Award for Teaching Excellence, and nominated for the ANU VC's Award for Teaching Excellence, 2015
Best Paper Award, 33rd International Conference on Conceptual Modeling, 2014
Excellence Grant by the Governor of Upper-Austria for a visit to the Johannes Kepler University Linz, Austria, 2013
(Offered) an Endeavour Research Fellowship Award, Australia, 2012
Best Paper Award Runner-up (with B. Thalheim), 30th International Conference on Conceptual Modeling, 2011
Research Grant for Doctoral Candidates and Young Scientists and Academics, German
Academic Exchange Service (DAAD), Germany, 2010
Best Paper Award (with H. Ma and K.-D. Schewe), IEEE Asia-Pacific Services Computing Conference, 2009
Bright Futures Top Achiever Doctoral Scholarship, Tertiary Education Commission, New Zealand, 2006-2009
Massey Vice-Chancellor's Doctoral Scholarship, Massey University, New Zealand, 2006-2009
Todd Foundation Award for Excellence, The Todd Foundation, New Zealand, 2005
Massey University Masterate Scholarship, New Zealand, 2005
Lovell & Berys Clark Scholarship, New Zealand, 2005
Work experience
Director Higher Degree Research (HDR), July 2021 - present
ANU College of Engineering and Computer Science, Australia
Associate Director (Education Partnerships), April 2018 - June 2021
School of Computing, Australian National University, Australia
Research Fellow/Fellow/Associate Professor, April 2012 - present
School of Computing, Australian National University, Australia
Research Fellow, April 2011 - March 2012
Department of Information Science, University of Otago, New Zealand
Systems Analyst, February 2009 - March 2012
PBRF team, Deputy Vice Chancellor's Office (Research), Research Division, University of
Otago, New Zealand
Graduate/Research Assistant, July 2004 - December 2008
Department of Information Systems, Massey University, New Zealand
Software Engineer/System Administrator, July 1993 - January 2004
IT Industry, China