Research Grants 

Australian Research Council - Discovery Project: 

• 2021 - 2023, ARC Discovery Project (with Dr Yongli Ren, Dr. Jun Luo), (grant #DP210100743), $289,994.00, Project title: Stream Data Classification in the Age of 5G Networks

• 2016-2018, ARC Discovery Project (with Professor Timoleon Sellis; Dr Jianxin Li), (grant# DP160102114), $270,000, Project title: Effective and Efficient Query Processing over Dynamic Social Networks 

• 2011-2013, ARC Discovery Project (with A/Prof. Shazia Sadiq and Dr. Mohamed Sharaf),  (grant#: DP110102777), $240,000, Project Title: “QualA-D: a quality aware query engine for next generation data”

• 2010-2012, ARC Discovery Project, (grant#: DP1096826), $255,000, Project Title: “Context Exploration: an Effective Way to Enhance Duplication Detection”  

Australian Research Council - Linkage Project:

• 2019-2021, ARC Linkage Project (with A/Prof. Jianxin Li, Prof. Chengfei Lui, Dr Tim Song), (grant # LP180100750), $480,000, Industry Partner: AMES Australia, Project Title: Personalised Online Learning Analytics by Exploring Multilayer Graph Data

• 2025-2028, ARC Linkage Project, Professor Hongzhi Yin; Dr Tong Chen; Associate Professor Jianxin Li; Dr Ke Deng; Professor Xiuzhen (Jenny) Zhang; Mr Shilong Wang, (grant # LP230200892), $585,724.00, Industry Partner: MOSTWA MEDIA AND ENTERTAINMENT,  Project title: Building an Aussie Information Recommendation System You Can Trust. 

Other Research Grants

• 2025-2028, CSIRO Industry PhD Program with industrial partner IMRA (Advancing Surgical Training), 4 x $58,000 ($33,000 Government scholarship 2023 rate + $12,000 IMRA scholarship  + $13,000 Government project expense and development package) 

• 2023, RMIT CIDDA PhD scholarship with Yan Wang and Laleh Tafakori, $100K in total for 3 years. 

• 2018, State Administration of Foreign Experts Affairs, China, $40,000 (Southwest University)

• Project title: “Big Data Analysis in Urban Space”

• 2016-2018, NICTA Victoria PhD Scholarship $80,000 (with Professor Arkady Zaslavsky, Professor Dimitrios Georgakopoulos, Dr. Prem Jayaraman)

• Project title: Context-aware analytics platform for micro-scale air pollution monitoring, predicting and alerting

• 2015-2017, Start up grant from RMIT CSIT, $30,000/year.

• 2013-2015, National Science Foundation of China, Youth Science Project (with Dr. Kuien Liu), RMB 300,000, Project Title: “Research on Large-scale Spatiotemporal Trajectory Compression in Moving Object Databases”