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XU, Guandong (徐贯东) PhD

Full Professor, School of Computer Science & Advanced Analytics Institute Faculty of Engineering & IT, University of Technology Sydney

Director, Smart Future Research Centre

PO Box 123, Broadway, NSW 2007 Office: CB02.12.158, Add: 15 Broadway, Ultimo NSW 2007 Ph: +61 2 9514 3788, Fax: +61 2 9514 9267, Mobile: +61 (0)431 588 665. Email: guandong dot xu at uts dot edu dot au

Assist. Editor-in-Chief, World Wide Web Journal http://www.springerlink.com/content/101757/>

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Biography

Dr Guandong Xu is a full Professor in the School of Computer Science and Advanced Analytics Institute at University of Technology Sydney. He received MSc and BSc degree in Computer Science and Engineering, and PhD in Computer Science. Before he joined UTS in 2012, he took various research positions at European and Australian universities. His research has received research funding from Australian Research Council, government agencies, and industry corporates totalling over $5.5M in past years. He is recipients of a number of awards from Academia and Industry, including 2018 Top 10 Analytics Leaders by Australian Analytics Professional Peak Body (IAPA), 2018 UTS Vice-Chancellor Research Excellence Award Finalist, 2018 Australian Computer Society Disruptor Award Finalists, 2018 Australasian Database Conference Best Student Paper Award, 2017 NSW Winner of Marketing Excellence Award in Customer Research, 2016 BigInsights Data Innovation Award Winner in Customer Insights.

Research Interest

  • Data Science and Data Analytics

  • Web mining and Information Retrieval

  • Recommender Systems

  • Text mining, latent semantic analysis, sentiment analysis

  • Social network analysis and social computing

  • Predictive Analytics, Business Analytics, and Social Analytics


News

  1. Our collaborated project "AI-driven Underwriting" has been nominated in the 2020 Efma--Accenture Global Insurance Awards.

  2. Paper titled "Learning with privileged information for photo aesthetic assessment" is published in Neurocomputing journal.

Call for Paper

  1. World Wide Web Journal Special Issue on "Explainability in Web" submission due on Oct 28, 2020

  2. 2020 International Conference on Behavioural and Social Computing, Nov 5-7, Bournemouth, UK, more info could be found http://besc-conf.org/2020/.

  3. Pattern Recognition Journal Special Issue on Graph-based Methods for Large Scale Financial and Business Data Analysis. Submission due on June 30 2020

  4. Neural Computing and Applications Journal Special Issue on "Healthcare Informatics", submission due on July 1 2020