Interests
Database
- Query processing and indexing of databases
- Efficient/dynamic/scalable shortest path computation
- Efficient high-dimensional vector search
Research
Dr Mengxuan Zhang’s research area is the management of databases (spatial, graph, and vector databases) by enhancing query processing performance. Over the past eight years, she has focused on designing efficient route planning and routing optimization algorithms to address challenges in real-life navigation scenarios. Application of her research includes traffic management, logistic planning, carpooling scheduling, robot path planning, and social network analysis.
Project and PhD Supervision
- Research Projects. Find her projects here.
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Biography
Dr Mengxuan Zhang is a Senior Lecturer at the School of Computing, the Australian National University. Before joining ANU, she worked as a postdoc at Iowa State University and a Research Associate at the Hong Kong University of Science and Technology.
Education
Dr Mengxuan Zhang received her PhD from the University of Queensland, Australia in 2021. Before that, she obtained a Master’s degree in Engineering from the Dalian University of Technology, China in 2017 and a Bachelor’s degree in Engineering from Wuhan University of Science and Technology, China in 2014.