HKBU Database Group

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The Database Research Group is part of the Department of Computer Science at the Hong Kong Baptist University. Currently, our main research activities include: Data management on novel storage media XML and graph databases Data privacy Mobile and spatial databases Networked data management
News

2011-11-04		First-Class Award in the 12th National Challenge Cup Contest

		Our flash database project has won the First-Class Award in the 12th Challenge Cup held in Dalian, China on October 15-20, 2011. Only 8% of the projects were awarded First-Class Awards.
2011-07-21		Invitation to Participate in "Enjoy Green"

		Come join us in the "Enjoy Green" campaign to (re)discover the ravishing Hong Kong landscapes and win great prizes.
2011-06-30		New GRF Grant Awarded

		Haibo is awarded a new GRF grant to conduct research on privacy-conscious query authentication for outsourced databases.
2011-06-28		Bronze Prize in 2011 Amway Pan-Pearl River Delta Region Universities IT Project Competition

		Chushi, final year undergraduate of our group, won Bronze Prize in the Amway Pan-Pearl River Delta Region Universities IT Project Competition held in Haikou on June 25-26, 2011. Congratulations!
2011-05-31		Farewell and Best Wishes

		We farewell our Final Year Project student Chushi Ren, who will be pursuing postgraduate study at the University of Pennsylvania starting September 2011.
2011-04-30		Overseas Attachment

		Jintian visits the Shanghai Key Lab of Intelligent Information Processing, Fudan University, Shanghai, China in May 2011.
2011-04-24		Professional Services

		Jianliang serves as Workshop Co-Chair for DASFAA 2011; and Byron and Haibo serve as Co-Chairs for GDB 2011 and DAMEN 2011, respectively.
2010-09-12		Two Papers Accepted to IEEE ICDE 2011

		Congratulations to Haibo, Yun, Chushi, Byron and Jianliang for papers accepted in IEEE ICDE 2011.
2010-06-30		New GRF Grants Awarded

		Two new GRF grants are awarded to conduct research on topics in graph-structured databases and flash-based databases.
2010-06-29		Bronze Prize in 2010 Amway Pan-Pearl River Delta Region Universities IT Project Competition

		Shen, final year undergraduate of our group, won Bronze Prize in the Amway Pan-Pearl River Delta Region Universities IT Project Competition held in Chengdu on June 27-28, 2010. Congratulations!
2010-06-02		Overseas Attachment

		Yun visits the Center for Advanced Information Systems (CAIS) at Nanyang Technological University (NTU) Singapore in June 2010.
2010-04-16		Paper Accepted to ACM TODS

		Congratulations to Haibo, Jianliang, Sai Tung & Jing for a paper accepted in ACM TODS, the most prestigious journal in the database area.
2010-02-05		Paper Accepted to ACM SIGMOD 2010

		Congratulations to Byron for his co-authored paper accepted in ACM SIGMOD 2010.
2009-09-01		Overseas Attachment

		Saitung visits the system research group at Microsoft Reseach Asia, Beijing, China for three months.
2009-08-18		PhD and Research Positions Available

		Candidates with background in databases and distributed systems are welcome to apply. Scholarship for PhD students: HK$ 13,200 per month. Salary range for senior research and postdoc positions: HK$ l5,000 to 25,000 per month. Please send your CV, publication record, and transcripts to db@comp.hkbu.edu.hk.