Graph Drawing
  Information Visualisation
  Visual Analytics
  Computational Geometry
  Algorithms and Data Structures
  Combinatorial Optimisation
  Algorithmic Aspects of Large and Complex Networks
  Theory of Computation
  Social Network Analysis
  Bioinformatics

  Research Projects

  Publication List

  Research Leadership

• As the project leader and principle researcher of the NICTA VALACON (Visualisation and Analysis of Large and Complex Networks) Project 2004-2007, I led a research team of 15 people (3 postdoctoral researchers, 2 research engineers and 10 PhD students).
• The VALACON project achieved research excellence, publishing 100+ research publications in high quality journals and conferences, 30 conference poster papers and Technical reports, 10 PhD Theses, and a visual analytic tool GEOMI (Geometry for Maximum Insight).
• The research excellence of VALACON project was acknowledged internationally; we won 5 awards and prizes at the international competitions.

  Research Supervision

  Postdocs

• Dr. Wu Quan: 2007-2008, University of Sydney.
• Dr. Tony Huang, 2007-2008, University of Sydney.
• Dr. Kai Xu: 2004-2007, NICTA.
• Dr. Richard Webber, 2005-2006, NICTA.
• Dr. Michale Forster 2005, NICTA.
• Dr. Nikola Nikolov, 2004-2005, NICTA.
• Dr. Tim Dwyer, 2004, NICTA.
  Research Engineers and Research Assistants

• Xiaoyan Fu: 2004-2007, NICTA.
• Nicolas Senechal, 2005-2006, NICTA.
• Martin Mader, 2006-2007, NICTA.
• Adel Ahmed, 2006, University of Sydney.
• Hoang Quan Nguyen, 2006, University of Sydney.
• Dougal Kan, 2004-2005, University of Sydney.
• Damian Merrick, 2003, University of Sydney.
  PhD Stduent (Main supervisor/Co-supervisor/Associate supervisor/VALACON Project)

• David Fung, APAI Scholarship, thesis expected to submit 2008.
• Colin Murray, NICTA PhD scholarship, thesis submitted 2008.
• Adel Ahmed, NICTA PhD scholarship, thesis submitted 2007.
• Tony Huang, NICTA PhD scholarship, thesis submitted 2007.
• Lanbo Zheng, NICTA PhD scholarship, thesis submitted 2007.
• Christine Wu, NICTA PhD scholarship, thesis submitted 2007.
• Le Song, NICTA PhD scholarship, thesis submitted 2007.
• Damian Merrick, NICTA PhD scholarship, thesis submitted 2007.
• Robert Shen, PhD., 2006.
• Tim Dwyer, PhD., 2005.
• Jenny Liu, PhD., 2004.
• Hugo do Nascimento, PhD., 2003
• Keith Nesbitt, PhD., 2003
• Carsten Friedrich, PhD., 2002 (Winner of Most Distinguished PhD Thesis)
  Visiting PhD/Master/Internship Student

• Mahdie Hasheminejad, PhD student, Iran, 2007-2008.
• Martin Mader, Master student, Konstanz, Germany, 2006-2007.
• Sander Ketlaar, Master student, Amsterdam, Netherlands, 2005-2006.
• Hedi Buchhner, Master student, Passau, Germany, 2005-2006.
• Luca Grilli, PhD student, Perugia, Italy, 2006.
• Victor Pascal, PhD student, Barcelona, Spain, 2006.
• Nathalie Henry, PhD stduent, INRIA, France, 2006.
  Honour Student

• Savrina Carrizo, 2003, first class honours (highest thesis mark 92), the winner of Allan Bromley prize for best honours thesis 2004.
• Dougal Kan, 2003, first class honours
• Lie Ming Tang, 2002, first class honours
• David Abelson, 2001, first class honours (thesis mark 91)
  Vacation Scholarship Students

• Joshua Ho, NICTA vacation scholarship, 2004-2005, 2006-2007.
• Thomas Chung, USYD vacation scholarship, 2006-2007.
• Tristan Manwaring, NICTA vacation scholarship, 2005-2006.
• Hoang Quan Nguyen, NICTA vacation scholarship, 2005-2006.
• Viet H. Le, NICTA vacation scholarship, 2003-2004 , 2004-2005.
• Tom Murtagh, USYD/NICTA vacation scholarship, 2003-2004, 2002-2003, 2001-2002.
• David Abelson, USYD vacation scholarship, 2001.
  Masters Students at Ewha University, Korea

• Young-Ran Lee, MSc, 1999.
• Yun-Hee Lee, MSc, 1998.
• Hye-Ryon Park, MSc, 1997.
• Mi-Hye Cho, MSc, 1995
• Yun-Hee Cho, MSc, 1995

  Research Collaborators

  Prof. Peter Eades, School of IT, University of Sydney
  Prof. Brendan McKay, Department of Computer Science, Australian National University
  Associate Professor, Don Taylor, School of Math and Statistics, University of Sydney
  Associate Professor, Jonathan Hillman, School of Math and Statistics, University of Sydney
  Professor Hiroshi Nagamochi, Kyoto University, Japan.
  Professor Kozo Sugiyama, JAIST, Japan
  Dr. Christoph Buchheim, University of Cologne, Germany.
  Professor Dr. Petra Mutzel, University of Dortmund, Germany.
  Professor Dr. Michael Kauffman, University of Tubingen, Germany.
  Professor Dr. Ulrik Brandes, University of Konstanz, Germany.
  Professor Guiseppe Liotta, University of Perugia, Italy.
  Associate Professor Antonis Symvonis, National Technical University of Athens, Greece.
  Associate Professor Stephen Kobourov, University of Arizona, USA.
  Professor Dr. Falk Schreiber, Network Analysis Group, Bioinformatics Center, IPK, Germany.
  Professor Vladimir Batagelj, Slovenia (Network Analysis)
  Professor Pip Pattison, University of Melbourne (Social Network Analysis)
  Associate Professor Garry Robins, University of Melbourne (Social Network Analysis)
  Professor Peter Little, UNSW (Biological Networks)
  Professor Marc Wilkins, UNSW (Biological Networks)
  Dr. Rohan Williams, ANU (Biological Networks)
  Dr David Hart, Axogenics, Sydney (Biotech Company)
  Dean van Gerrevink, Daintree Networks, Melbourne. (Sensor network company)