Staff profile

Dr Zhen He

Senior Lecturer

Faculty of Science, Technology and Engineering

School of Engineering and Mathematical Sciences
Department of Computer Science and Computer Engineering

Beth Gleeson room 235, Melbourne (Bundoora)

 

Qualifications

BSc (Hons), PhD, ANU.

Area of study

Computer Science

Brief profile

I obtained my PhD from the Australian National University(ANU) in 2003. My PhD work was on the caching for object oriented databases. Then in 2003 I did a postdoc at the university of Vermont, working on optimization issues relating to relational databases. In 2004 I began work as a lecturer in La Trobe University. In latrobe university I have worked on many different research topics, include: relational database optimization, wireless sensor networks, moving object databases, flash database, location based services.

Research interests

Databases and information system

- database optimisation

- Flash memory databases

- spatial temporal database optimisation

Recent publications

-Mitzi McCarthy, Zhen He, Efficient Updates for OLAP Range Queries on Flash Memory, The Computer Journal, 2011

-Ulpian Cesana and Zhen He, Multi-Buffer Manager: Energy Efficient Buffer Manager for Databases on Flash Memory, ACM Transaction on Embedded Computing System, 2010

-Zhen He and Alonso Marquez, Path and Cache Conscious Prefetching (PCCP), VLDB Journal, 2007

-Zhen He, Byung Suk Lee and Robert Snapp, Self-Tuning Cost Modeling of User-Defined Functions in an Object-Relational DBMS, ACM Transactions on Database Systems (TODS) , 2005