Dr Wei Kang

Wei is a Research Scientist at CSIRO's Data61. Prior to that, he worked as a Research Fellow and Research Degree Supervisor in the School of Information Technology and Mathematical Sciences, University of South Australia. Wei was also one of the key Research Scientists in the Beat The News (BTN) project at the Data to Decisions CRC which aimed to provide national security agencies with automated and continuous big data analytics capability. His work focuses on extracting insights from big/complex data, performing predictive analytics to support decision making and conducting risk analysis through event detection/topic discovery using social media data to assist with proactive prevention of hazard and security issues. He has supervised two PhD students, five Masters students and three Honours students. His research interests include data mining and machine learning, predictive analytics, social media analytics, summarisation and visualisation. He obtained his PhD in Computer Science at the National University of Singapore.