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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
 Data privacy and security
 Graph and social data management
 Mobile and spatial databases
 Networked data management
News
2013-01-15
Press Coverage
 
   
 
   
Our research on location privacy protection was featured in various media reports.
 
2012-08-12
PcarnBase: A Transcriptomic Database for Platygyra carnosus Released
 
   
 
   
We are pleased to release PcarnBase: A Transcriptomic Database for Platygyra carnosus. This is a joint research project with Dr. Jianwen Qiu of the Department of Biology.
 
2012-06-29
New GRF Grants Awarded
 
   
 
   
Two new GRF grants are awarded to conduct research on topics related to location-based services and social networks.
 
2012-06-26
First Runner-up Prize in ACM Collegiate Programming Contest (Hong Kong) 2012
 
   
 
   
Qian, together with two undergraduate students from our department, won the First Runner-up Award in the ACM Collegiate Programming Contest (HK) held on 16 June 2012.
 
2012-04-24
ACM SIGMOD 2012 Travel Award
 
   
 
   
Qian is awarded a travel grant to attend the ACM SIGMOD 2012 conference in Scottsdale, Arizona, USA.

 
2012-03-08
Papers Accepted to SIGMOD, ICDE, TKDE and VLDBJ
 
   
 
   
Congratulations to Haibo, Xin, Stone, Dingming, Qian, Byron and Jianliang for full papers accepted by SIGMOD 2012, ICDE 2012, TKDE and VLDBJ!

 
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 full papers accepted by 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 by 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 by 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.
 
 
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