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Biography
Dr. Yanchang Zhao is a Senior Research Scientist and a Team Leader of AI4Understanding at Data61, CSIRO. Prior to that, he was a Data Analytics Lead with IBM Australia in 2017, a Senior Data Scientist with the Australian Government from 2009 to 2016 and an Australian Postdoctoral Research Fellow – Industry (APDI) with the University of Technology Sydney (UTS) from 2007 to 2009.
He has 16 years' hands-on experiences in data science and analytics and has authored/co-authored 70+ publications (incl. 4 books) on data mining research and applications. He has delivered dozens of talks (incl. keynote addresses, invited talks, tutorials and training courses) at universities, government, industry and international conferences.
He is a Founder of the Canberra Data Scientists Meetup Group. He is a Senior Member of the IEEE, a Member of the ACM and SIGKDD and a Secretary of the ACM SIGKDD ANZ Chapter. He is a Steering Committee Member of the Australasian Data Science and Machine Learning Conference (AusDM), and has been a Program/Conference Chair for the AusDM conferences in 2012-2016 & 2018-2022 and a Program Committee member for premier academic conferences, such as AAAI 2017-2022 and KDD 2022-2023.
Research Interests:
* Interpretable/explainable AI
* Causal discovery and inference
Workshop Chair of the ICDM 2023 Workshop on Causal and Explainable Artificial Intelligence (CXAI 2023)
Guest Editor of the Applied Sciences journal Special Issue on "Causal and Explainable Artificial Intelligence"
A PC member of
* The ACM SIGKDD Conference on Knowledge Discovery and Data Mining (KDD 2015-2016, 2022-2023)
* The AAAI Conference on Artificial Intelligence (AAAI 2017-2022)
* The International Joint Conference on Artificial Intelligence (IJCAI 2018-2020)
* The ACM International Conference on Information and Knowledge Management (CIKM 2020-2023)
* The Pacific-Asia Conference on Knowledge Discovery and Data Mining (PAKDD 2018-2024)
* The European Conference on Machine Learning and Principles and Practice of Knowledge Discovery in Databases (ECMLPKDD 2015-2018, 2023)
* The IEEE International Conference on Data Science and Advanced Analytics (DSAA 2020-2022)
* The Pacific Rim International Conferences on Artificial Intelligence (PRICAI 2010-2022)
Other Interests
- R
- Python
- Data mining
- Machine learning
- Data science and analytics
Achievements and Awards
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2020-2020
DNFC Customer First Award – Highly Commended
CSIRO -
2020-2020
Best Paper Award of the Industry and Government Program
The IEEE Big Data 2020 Conference -
2020-2020
The 2020 IEEE Region 10 Outstanding Small Section Award
IEEE -
2018-2018
Research Innovation Award
The Australian Water Association
Professional Areas
Fields of Research
Current Roles
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Research Team Leader
Leading a research team of AI4Understanding and the research in causal and explainable AI -
Senior Researcher on data science and analytics projects
Research on data mining and machine learning on projects collaborated with government, industry and academia -
Co-supervisor of students
Co-supervising PhD/MSc students with RMIT, UniSA, UniMelb and UTS
Professional Experiences
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Sept 2017-Present
Senior Research Scientist
Data61, CSIRO -
Nov 2015-Oct 2021
Adjunct Professor
University of Canberra -
March 2017-Sept 2017
Data Analytics Lead
IBM Australia -
Nov 2011-Feb 2017
Senior Data Scientist
Department of Immigration -
May 2009-Nov 2011
Senior Data Mining Specialist
Department of Human Services -
Jan 2007-Nov 2009
Australian Postdoctoral Research Fellow - Industry (APDI)
University of Technology, Sydney
Grants
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Jan 2019-Sept 2019
Data61 Challenge Grant on Smart City and Energy
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2007-2009
ARC Linkage Project (LP0775041) on Data Mining of Activity Transactions to Strengthen Debt Prevention. $469,000.
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2010-2013
ARC Linkage Project (LP100200774) on Detecting Significant Changes in Organisation Customer Interactions Leading to Non-Compliance. $300,000.
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2009-2010
University of Technology Sydney (UTS) Early Career Researcher Grant (ECRG) project on Efficient Mining of Negative Sequential Patterns. $24,941.
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2008-2009
UTS ECRG project on Combined Association Rule Mining. $25,000.
Community and Corporate Citizenship
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2023-present
Chair of the 2023 ICDM Workshop on Causal and Explainable Artificial Intelligence (CXAI 2023)
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2023-2023
Chair of Computer Track of the IEEE TENSYMP 2023 Conference
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2012-present
Steering Committee Member of the Australasian Data Science and Machine Learning Conference (AusDM)
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2023-present
Member of the Advisory Board of the Machine Learning for Social Good Centre at the University of Auckland, New Zealand
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2022-present
Editor of the International Journal of Data Mining, Modelling and Management (IJDMMM)
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2018-present
Secretary of the ACM SIGKDD ANZ Chapter
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2014-present
Founder and organiser of the Canberra Data Scientists Meetup Group
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2019-2020-2023-present
Chair of the Computer Society of the IEEE ACT Section
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2013-present
IEEE Senior Member
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2018-present
ACM Member and SIGKDD Member
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2012-2022
Program/Conference Chair of the Australasian Data Science and Machine Learning Conference (AusDM) 2012-2016 & 2018-2022
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2020-2020
Member of the Data61 Diversity and Inclusion Committee
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2020-2020
Treasurer of the IEEE International Conference on Data Science and Advanced Analytics (DSAA 2020)
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2015-2015
Exhibit & Demo Co-Chair of the ACM SIGKDD Conference 2015
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2013-2013
Program Chair of the International Workshop on Data Mining Applications in Industry & Government (DMApps 2013), in conjunction with PAKDD 2013
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2007-2009
Chair of the International Workshop on Domain Driven Data Mining (DDDM'07, DDDM'08, DDDM'09), in conjunction respectively with KDD'07, ICDM'08 and ICDM'09
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Publications
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