Data Science and Machine Intelligence (DSMI) Lab, established in 2015 under Advanced Analytics Institute, University Technology Sydney, is dedicated to research excellence and industry innovation across academia and industry, aligning with the UTS research priority areas in data science and artificial intelligence. The DSMI lab has intensively researched on topics of artificial intelligence, behavioural modelling, social computing, recommender systems, text mining and NLP, predictive analytics and prescriptive analytics, visualisation, causality discovery and inference, securing a number of national competitive research grants such as Australian Research Council Discovery and Linkage Projects, Cooperative Research Centre Project, and publishing numerous papers in top data science and artificial intelligence journals and conferences. Since 2015, the lab has received over $6millions research income from funding bodies, government agencies, corporates, and private section.
In addition, DSMI lab is renowned for quality and industry-focus. As part of the vibrant and rigorous research culture at UTS, our mission is to ensure that the work we have done has a transformative impact in society and industry. The lab has successfully delivered or undergo a number of industry contract projects for taxpayer behaviour compliance, customer churn prediction, customer call-log and personality mining, retirement readiness indexing, Ai-enabled underwriting, Quality Assurance, patient triaging and cohort mining, solar electricity generation and dynamic price forecasting, covid-19 social and economic impact analysis, some of which have been implemented and deployed in real business operationalisation. As a result of impact and recognition, the team alongside its industry partners has received a number of research and industry prizes and awards at national and international levels, such as
· Australian Top-10 Analytics Leaders
· Efma-Accenture Innovation in Insurance Awards
· Australian Computer Society Digital Disruptors winners
· Australian Information Industry Association awards
· Australasian Database Conference best paper awards.
An introduction of DSMI Lab could be found at IEEE Intelligent Informatics Bulletin October 2020 Vol.20 No.1: https://www.comp.hkbu.edu.hk/~cib/2020/Profile1.pdf
Key Research Areas
· Data Science and Artificial Intelligence
· Web mining, behavioural modelling, and social Computing
· Recommender systems and Explainability
· Representation learning, Knowledge Graph
· Text mining and NLP, software code analysis, summarisation and retrieval, misinformation detection
· Predictive analytics, time series forecasting
· Prescriptive analytics, causality discovery
- Our team has been the Winner of “ICT Research Project of the Year” in the 2021 ACS (Australian Computer Society) Digital Disruptors Award (https://www.linkedin.com/feed/update/urn:li:activity:6902208378811113472/),
- Three papers have been accepted by the Web conference 2022 (acceptance rate 17.7%).
- Our research paper on CTR prediction collaborated with eBay Research was nominated for the Best Paper at leading data science conference CIKM 2021!
- Our collaboration with eBay on Tiktok Influencer Monitoring for Targeted Marketing won the Top 3 Leaders’ Choice Award selected by the eBay Leadership Team
- Two papers have been accepted by SIGIR21 (acceptance rate 21%) and one accepted at SIGKDD21 (acceptance rate 15%)
- Prof Guandong XU has been elected Australian Computer Society Fellow on 22 Arp 2021
- Global Award for AI Transforming Insurance Underwriting, FEIT News 22 June, 2020
- OnePath Life’s “AI-driven Underwriting” project has received the “Top 3 Workforce Transformation Award” in 2020 global Efma-Accenture Insurance Innovation Award
- Call for Paper: Behavior & Information Technology Special Issue on Social response to the Covid-19 Pandemic, submission deadline: 15 Oct, 2020
- Call for Paper: IEEE Transactions on Computational Social Systems Special Issue for COVID-19 Emergency Management and Beyonds, submission deadline: 30 June, 2020
- Call for Paper: World Wide Web Journal Special Issue on Explainability in Web, submission deadline: 28 Oct, 2020
- Call for Paper: 2020 International Conference on Behavioural and Social Computing (BESC 2020), 5-7 Nov, 2020 Bournemouth University, UK
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