Mengxuan Zhang 张梦璇

News

[2026.02] Our paper about high-dimensional vector search is accepted in VLDB 2026!

[2026.02] Our paper about diversified route planning is accepted in ICDE 2026!

[2025.11] I am honored to be promoted to Senior Lecturer and grateful for the support from my colleagues.

[2025.10] I am honored to receive the Outstanding Service Award as the Publication Chair of APWeb-WAIM 2025.

[2025.05] Our manuscript "Diversity in Routing: From vertices and edegs to paths" is accepted by the book project "Encyclopedia of GIS".

[2025.05] Three of our research works are being presented at ICDE 2025 held in Hong Kong.

[2024.12] I am happy to deliver a tutorial in ADC 2024 held at Gold Coast, Australia.

[2024.11] Our new paper about high-throughput routing in dynamic road networks is accepted in ICDE 2025!

[2024.11] Our new paper about GPU accelerated shortest path computation is accepted in VLDB 2025!

[2024.05] Our four papers are being presented at ICDE 2024 held in Utrecht, Netherlands.

Biography 

I am a Senior Lecturer at the School of Computing, Australian National University. Before that, I worked as a Research Associate at the Hong Kong University of Science and Technology and as a Postdoc at Iowa State University. I obtained my Ph.D. Degree (2021) from the University of Queensland. My main research area is Databases, i.e., high-performance query processing. I have been focused on designing efficient and scalable algorithms for route planning and vector search. 

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Research

My research focuses on designing fundamental algorithms to overcome challenges in real-life systems by enabling efficient and scalable query processing. Applications of my research include 1) shortest path related: navigation services, traffic management, and complex network analysis; 2) dense retrieval related: retrieval-augmented generation (RAG), recommendation systems and knowledge retrieval. 

Personal hobbies

Yoga, Hiking, Tennis