Professor Wenjie Zhang
- Key Chief Investigator
- UNSW Sydney
Wenjie Zhang is a Professor, ARC Future Fellow, Head of the Data and Knowledge Research Group and Deputy Head of School (Research) in the School of Computer Science and Engineering, the University of New South Wales, Australia. Her research interests include large-scale data management and analytics, complex data processing and data-centric AI. Since 2008, she has published more than 300 research papers including over 240 papers in top database venues such as TKDE, TODS, VLDBJ, SIGMOD, VLDB, and ICDE. She received the Australian Research Council Future Fellowship (FT3) in 2021 and Discovery Early Career Researcher Award in 2011. In 2019, she received the Chris Wallace Award for her significant contributions to large-scale graph data processing. Her research has been well supported by 15 Australian Research Council grants and several industry funded projects.
Wenjie is an Associate Editor for IEEE TKDE, The VLDB Journal and ACM TKDD, and served as the PC Chair for ICDE 2025 and area chair for VLDB, ICDE and ICDM. She currently chairs the Steering Committee of the Australasian Database Conference (ADC). Her work received more than 19 Best Papers from international conferences including Best Papers of SIGMOD and ICDE, and ACM Research Highlight Award 2021. Wenjie is an elected Member of the CORE Academy (The Computing Research and Education Association of Australasia), and Fellow of the ACS (Australian Computer Society) and Fellow of the RSN (Royal Society of NSW Australia).
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