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Professor Xiaohui Tao

Professor Xiaohui Tao
Name Xiaohui Tao
Position Professor (Computing)
Section School of Mathematics, Physics and Computing
Office A542
Location Springfield Campus
Phone +61 7 3470 4357
Extension 4357
Email
Qualifications PhD QUT
Homepage https://tao-xiaohui.info
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Biography

Professor Dr. Xiaohui Tao holds a distinguished position at the University of Southern Queensland's (UniSQ) School of Mathematics, Physics, and Computing in Australia. Currently, he is the Computing Discipline Leader, and presides as the Chair of the ICT Programs' Governance and Leadership Committee. Before assuming these pivotal roles, from 2016 to 2021, he provided esteemed leadership as the Director of various academic programs, including the Master of Data Science, Master of Information Technology, and Master of Science at UniSQ.

An esteemed scholar in Artificial Intelligence, Dr. Tao's research encompasses a wide spectrum, including but not limited to data analytics, machine learning, knowledge engineering, natural language processing, and health informatics. His academic contributions are well-recognized with over 200 publications in eminent journals such as TKDE, TOIS, TNNLS, TIST, INFFUS, and notable conferences including AAAI, IJCAI, SIGIR, ICDE, EMNLP, and CIKM. Beyond individual research, he spearheads a prominent research group that prioritizes innovative algorithms and systems with significant real-world applications. Additionally, he has exhibited exceptional mentorship, having successfully supervised 10+ doctoral candidates to completion.

Dr. Tao's contributions to the academic community have been acknowledged with prestigious awards like the Australia Research Council Grant and the Australian Endeavour Research Fellowship, as well as recognition from international conferences, namely DSInS'23, ACMHN'22, BESC'22, BI'21, WI-IAT'20, and WISE'20 and '19.

A Senior Member of both the IEEE and ACM professional bodies, Dr. Tao also contributes as the Vice Chair of the IEEE Technical Committee on Intelligent Informatics (TCII). His editorial endeavors include serving as the Editor-in-Chief for Elsevier's Natural Language Processing Journal, IOS Press' Web Intelligence Journal (CCF C), and the IEEE TCII Bulletin. He has further enhanced his profile by serving in key roles in conference series such as CBD, WI-IAT, BESC, and more.

Dr. Tao concluded his Ph.D. in Information Technology from Queensland University of Technology, Australia, in 2009

Research Career


  • Expert Systems ( 080105 )
  • Pattern Recognition and Data Mining ( 080109 )
  • Natural Language Processing ( 080107 )
  • Natural Language Processing ( 460208 )
  • Artificial Intelligence ( 460200 )
  • Data Mining And Knowledge Discovery ( 460502 )
  • Data Management And Data Science ( 460500 )
  • Recommender Systems ( 460510 )
  • Information Retrieval And Web Search ( 460508 )
  • Semi- And Unsupervised Learning ( 461106 )
  • Knowledge Representation And Reasoning ( 460206 )
  • Deep Learning ( 461103 )
  • Context Learning ( 461102 )
  • Machine Learning ( 461100 )
  • Reinforcement Learning ( 461105 )
  • Neural Networks ( 461104 )

Natural Language Processing, Knowledge engineering, knowledge management, Data mining, Data Analytics, Information retrieval, Health Informatics


Senior member, Association for Computing Machinery (ACM)
Senior member, Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers (IEEE)
IEEE Computer Society
IEEE Computational Intelligence Society
IEEE Technical Committee on Intelligent Informatics
Web Intelligence Consortium (WIC)


Editor-in-Chief, Natural Language Processing Journal, Elsevier
Editor-in-Chief, IEEE Intelligent Informatics Bulletin
Editor-in-Chief, Web Intelligence Journal
Editorial Board member, Scalable Information Systems
Editorial Board member, Computers and Education: Artificial Intelligence, Elsevier
Editorial Board member, Information Fusion, Elsevier

Teaching


MSC6001 Research Project I (2017 - present)
MSC6002 Research Project II (2017 - present)
CSC6202 Natural Language Processing: Techniques and Applications (2024 - present)
CSC6200 Advanced ICT Professional Project (2017 – 2022)
CSC3600 ICT Professional Project (2013 – 2022)
CSC1401 Foundation Programming (2011-2017)
CSC1402 Foundation Computing (2011 – 2016)


19 Years


Discipline Team Leader (Computing), 2021-present
Chair of ICT Programs Governance and Leadership Committee, 2022-present
Program Director, Master of Data Science (2020-2021)
Program Director, Postgraduate Programs (Master of Science, Master of Computing, Master of Computing Technology), School of Sciences (2016-2019)

Supervision


  • Expert Systems ( 080105 )
  • Pattern Recognition and Data Mining ( 080109 )
  • Natural Language Processing ( 080107 )
  • Natural Language Processing ( 460208 )
  • Artificial Intelligence ( 460200 )
  • Data Mining And Knowledge Discovery ( 460502 )
  • Data Management And Data Science ( 460500 )
  • Recommender Systems ( 460510 )
  • Information Retrieval And Web Search ( 460508 )
  • Semi- And Unsupervised Learning ( 461106 )
  • Knowledge Representation And Reasoning ( 460206 )
  • Deep Learning ( 461103 )
  • Context Learning ( 461102 )
  • Machine Learning ( 461100 )
  • Reinforcement Learning ( 461105 )
  • Neural Networks ( 461104 )