Activities and Awards

2018 ACM SIGMOD Test of Time Award together with Michael Cahill and Alan Fekete.

2013 Dean's Award for Outstanding Teaching of the Faculty of Engineering and IT.

2008 SIGMOD Best Paper award at ACM SIGMOD 2008 in Vancouver, Canada, together with Michael J. Cahill and Alan Fekete for our paper on Serialisable Snapshot Isolation.

Australian Information Industry (AIIA) iAwards 2005 (Finalist)
Our "PathBank" project was finalist for the best tertiary student project.

Activities and Scholarships

Visiting Professor at the Technical University of Darmstadt (TU Darmstadt), 2018/19.

Visiting Professor at the Technical University of Munich (TU Munich), 2013/14.

Visiting Academic at the Karlsruhe Institute of Technology (KIT), 2009/2010.

Visiting Scholar at the University of Queensland, 2009.

Visiting Researcher at Microsoft SQL Server Team in 2008.

Research Funding

ARC LP160100883 - Improving Provision of a Document Store As A Service in a Public Cloud (Industry Partner: MongoDB)
ARC DP0987900 - Exploring the concurrency tradeoff: a new approach to enterprise SW
ARC LP0669685 - Implementing Bioinformatics Algorithms using .NET Stored Procedures (Industry Partner: Microsoft)
ARC DP0664782 - Distributed Data Processing for WSN

Academic Service to the Discipline

program committee member of VLDB 2020
program committee member of CIKM 2020
program committee member of EDBT 2019
program committee member of IEEE BigData 2019
program committee member of IEEE BigData 2018
program committee member of DEEM 2018 Workshop
program committee member of VLDB 2017
program committee member of IEEE BigData 2017
program committee member of ICDE 2016
program committee member of VLDB 2015
program committee member of ADC 2015
program committee member of AWC 2015
program committee member of IEEE BigData 2015
program committee member of SIGMOD 2014
program committee member of DASFAA 2014
program committee member of IEEE BigData 2014
program committee member of APCCM 2014
program committee member of IEEE BigData 2013
program committee member of DASFAA 2013
program committee member of WISE 2013
program committee member of ADC 2013
program committee member of VLDB 2012
program committee member of ADC 2012
proceedings chair of VLDB 2011
program committee member of DASFAA 2011
program committee member of ADC 2011
program committee member of SIGMOD 2010
program committee member of DASFAA 2010
program committee member of SIGMOD 2009
program committee member of ICDE 2009
program committee member of EDBT 2009
program committee member of DASFAA 2009
program committee member of ADC 2009
program committee member of EDBT 2008
program committee member of WISE 2008
program committee member of ADC 2008
program committee member of WISE 2007
program committee member of DISN 2007
program committee member of APWeb/WAIM 2007
program committee member of ADC 2007
program committee member of VLDB 2006
program committee member of CIKM 2006
program committee member of CIKM 2005
external reviewer for VLDB 2000, PODS 2000, SIGMOD 2001, CIKM 2001, CIDR 2003, NPC 2005, and ICDE 2007
reviewer for VLDB Journal, ACM TODS, IEEE TKDE, Briefings in Bioinformatics, and Information Systems journal