Scholar
Junhao Gan
Google Scholar ID: XvguMc0AAAAJ
Senior Lecturer, School of Computing and Information Systems, The University of Melbourne
Citations & Impact
Citations
811
H-index
11
i10-index
12
Publications
20
Co-authors
2
list available
Contact
Publications
Resume (English only)
Academic Achievements
- Major awards include SIGMOD Best Paper Award 2015, CORE John Makepeace Bennett Award (Australasian Distinguished Doctoral Dissertation) 2018, Discovery Early Career Researcher Award (DECRA) 2019, Excellence in Research Award in School of CIS 2020, The University of Queensland Dean's Award 2017, Google Excellence Scholarship 2012, National Graduate Scholarship (Top 2%) 2013, and National Undergraduate Scholarship (Top 2%) 2009 and 2010. Research grants include ARC Discovery Project (DP) 2023 - Now and ARC Discovery Early Career Researcher Award (DECRA) 2019 - 2023.
Research Experience
- Post-doctoral research fellow at the School of Information Technology and Electrical Engineering (ITEE) at The University of Queensland from April 2017 to July 2018.
Education
- PhD from the School of Information Technology and Electrical Engineering (ITEE) at The University of Queensland in 2017, supervised by Prof. Yufei Tao; obtained bachelor and master degrees from Sun Yat-Sen University in 2011 and 2013, respectively.
Background
- Senior Lecturer and Course Coordinator - Master of Information Technology at the School of Computing and Information Systems (CIS) at The University of Melbourne. Research interests include practical algorithms with non-trivial theoretical guarantees for solving problems on massive data.
Miscellany
- Coach of the Competitive Programming Club at the University of Melbourne and teams in International Collegiate Programming Contest (ICPC) World Finals 2021, 2022, 2023, and 2025. Served as a senior PC member, area chair, and session chair in various top conferences.
