20th Anniversary Panel Discussion




Biography

Professor Xue Li is the Chair of the Steering Committee of ADMA and a co-founder of ADMA. He is a Professor in School of Electrical Engineering and Computer Science, the University of Queensland in Australia. Dr Xue Li’s work on Big Data Analytics has attracted wide attentions. For example, he was listed as one of 50 “The Most Powerful people in Australia" on Big Data by the Financial Review - the Power Issue 2015; the Microsoft Start-Up Q Award 2014, Winner of the Best use of Open Data – QLD Premier’s Awards for Open Data 2014. His research interests are in database management, machine learning with privacy preservation, and intelligent information systems. He has over 200 publications as monograph, edited books, book chapters, and journal and conference papers. His Google h-Index is 55, with 10,600 citations. He has successfully supervised 34 PhD students to graduation as their principal supervisor.




Biography

Professor Chengqi Zhang has been appointed as a Pro Vice-Chancellor (China Enterprise) on 1 December 2021 at the University of Technology Sydney (UTS), a Distinguished (Chair) Professor on 27 February 2017 at UTS. In addition, he has been elected as the Chairman of the Australian Computer Society National Committee for Artificial Intelligence since November 2005 and he was elected as a General Chair of IJCAI-2024.
He had been appointed as an Associate Vice President (Research Relationships China) from 1 December 2017 to 30 November 2021 at UTS, an Executive Director UTS Data Science from 3 January 2017 to 30 November 2017, and an Honorary Professor at the University of Queensland (UQ) from 1 January 2015 to 31 December 2017, an Adjunct Professor at the University of New South Wales (UNSW) from 20 March 2017 to 20 March 2020, and a Research Professor of Information Technology at UTS from 14 December 2001. In addition, he has been elected as the Chairman of IEEE Computer Society Technical Committee of Intelligent Informatics (TCII) from June 2014 to June 2018. On 16 April 2008, he accepted a position as the founding Director of the UTS Priority Research Centre for Quantum Computation & Intelligent Systems (QCIS) till 2016.
Prof. Zhang's research interests mainly focus on Distributed Artificial Intelligence and Data Mining. A prolific contributor to his field, Professor Zhang has published over 350 scholarly articles, including a number of papers in first-class international journals, such as Artificial Intelligence, IEEE, and ACM Transactions. His dedication earned him the NSW Science and Engineering Award (2011) and the Vice-Chancellor's Award for Outstanding Research in Leadership at UTS (2011). He was also awarded the 2021 IEEE ICDM Outstanding Service Award.
Prof. Zhang has served in the ARC College of Experts from 2012 to 2014. He had been elected as the founding Chair of the Steering Committee of the International Conference on Knowledge Science, Engineering, and Management between 2006 and 2014. He has been serving as an Associate Editor for three international journals, including IEEE Transactions on Knowledge and Data Engineering from 2005 to 2008; and he served as General Chair, PC Chair, or Organising Chair for five international Conferences including KDD 2015, ICDM 2010 and WI/IAT 2008. He is also the Local Arrangements Chair of IJCAI-2017 in Melbourne (International Joint Conference on Artificial Intelligence), and was appointed as IJCAI Sponsorship Officer, and General Chair of IJCAI-2024.

Biography

Professor Xiaofang Zhou is Otto Poon Professor of Engineering and Chair Professor of Computer Science and Engineering at The Hong Kong University of Science and Technology. He is Head of Department of Computer Science and Engineering. He is the Founding Director of Jockey Club STEM Lab of Data Science Foundations (DSF), HKUST-HKPC Joint Lab on Industrial AI and Robotics Research (INAIR), HKUST-MetaX Joint Lab for Advanced AI Computing, and several other HKUST joint labs with leading industry players. He was Co-Director of HKUST Big Data Institute (BDI) from 2022 to 2024. He is a Global STEM Scholar of Hong Kong and a Fellow of IEEE.




Biography

Distinguished Professor Jie Lu AO (Officer of the Order of Australia) is an internationally renowned scientist in the area of computational intelligence, who has made fundamental and influential contributions, particularly in fuzzy transfer learning, concept drift, data-driven decision support systems, and recommender systems. Her research has huge positive implications and significant impact on her research community and for society and economics. An IEEE Fellow, IFSA Fellow, Australian Computer Society Fellow, and Australian Laureate Fellow in AI, Jie has published six research books and about 500 papers in leading journals and conferences, has won 10 ARC Discovery projects and ARC Laureate fellow project, and also led 15 ARC Linkage and industry projects. She has supervised 50 PhD students to completion. As the Director of the Australian Artificial Intelligence Institute (AAII) at UTS, the largest AI centre in Australia with 35 researchers and 230 PhD students, Jie works at the frontier of the information age. Her research is helping shape the way organisations use data to make decisions in complex and uncertain situations. She delivers 40 keynote speeches at international conferences. She serves as Editor-In-Chief for leading journal Knowledge-Based Systems (Elsevier) since 2010.




Biography

Professor Wen Hu is a full professor at School of Computer Science and Engineering, the University of New South Wales (UNSW). Professor Hu was a principal research scientist and research project leader at CSIRO Digital Productivity Flagship, and received his Ph.D from the UNSW. He is a recipient of prestigious CSIRO Office of Chief Executive (OCE) Julius Career Award (2012 - 2015) and multiple research grants from Australian Research Council, CSIRO and industries. He is the editor in chief (EiC) of ACM TOSN, the general chair of CPS-IoT Week 2020, co-chair the program committee of ACM/IEEE IPSN 2023 and ACM Web Conference (WWW 2023, Systems and Infrastructure for Web, Mobile Web, and Web of Things track), as well as serves on the organising and program committees of networking conferences including ACM/IEEE IPSN, ACM SenSys, ACM SigCOMM, ACM MobiCOM and ACM MobiSys. Hu is a senior member of ACM and IEEE.