Longbing Cao (Chinese: 操龙兵; born in 1969) is an AI and data science researcher at the

University of Technology Sydney The University of Technology Sydney (UTS) is a public research university located in Sydney, New South Wales, Australia. Although its origins are said to trace back to the 1830s, the university was founded in its current form in 1988. As of 2021 ...

, Australia. His broad research interest involves

artificial intelligence Artificial intelligence (AI) is intelligence—perceiving, synthesizing, and inferring information—demonstrated by machines, as opposed to intelligence displayed by animals and humans. Example tasks in which this is done include speech re ...

data science Data science is an interdisciplinary field that uses scientific methods, processes, algorithms and systems to extract or extrapolate knowledge and insights from noisy, structured and unstructured data, and apply knowledge from data across a br ...

behavior informatics Behavior informatics (BI) is the informatics of behaviors so as to obtain behavior intelligence and behavior insights. BI is a research method combining science and technology, specifically in the area of engineering. The purpose of BI includes a ...

, and their enterprise applications.

Biography

Cao received one PhD in

Pattern Recognition Pattern recognition is the automated recognition of patterns and regularities in data. It has applications in statistical data analysis, signal processing, image analysis, information retrieval, bioinformatics, data compression, computer graphi ...

and Intelligent Systems from

Chinese Academy of Science The Chinese Academy of Sciences (CAS); ), known by Academia Sinica in English until the 1980s, is the national academy of the People's Republic of China for natural sciences. It has historical origins in the Academia Sinica during the Republic ...

and another PhD in

Computing Science Computer science is the study of computation, automation, and information. Computer science spans theoretical disciplines (such as algorithms, theory of computation, information theory, and automation) to Applied science, practical discipli ...

at the

(UTS). He had a bachelor’s degree in electrical automation, and a master's degree in

data communication Data transmission and data reception or, more broadly, data communication or digital communications is the transfer and reception of data in the form of a digital bitstream or a digitized analog signal transmitted over a point-to-point or ...

. Cao took a Chief Technology Officer role managing business intelligence system design and implementation in China before he started his academic life in Australia in 2005. He established and directed the first Australian research centre dedicated to

big data analytics Though used sometimes loosely partly because of a lack of formal definition, the interpretation that seems to best describe Big data is the one associated with large body of information that we could not comprehend when used only in smaller am ...

: Advanced Analytics Institute at UTS in 2011, where he built the analytics degrees: Master of Analytics and PhD Thesis: Analytics in 2011 at UTS. He is the inaugural Editor-in-Chief of '' International Journal of Data Science and Analytics'' (JDSA), publishing since 2016, and the Editor-in-Chief of ''

IEEE Intelligent Systems ''IEEE Intelligent Systems'' is a bimonthly peer-reviewed academic journal published by the IEEE Computer Society and sponsored by the Association for the Advancement of Artificial Intelligence (AAAI), British Computer Society (BCS), and European As ...

'', the oldest AI publication in

IEEE The Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers (IEEE) is a 501(c)(3) professional association for electronic engineering and electrical engineering (and associated disciplines) with its corporate office in New York City and its operation ...

. He founded the IEEE International Conference on Data Science and Advanced Analytics (DSAA) and established and chairs: *IEEE Task Force on Data Science and Advanced Analytics * IEEE Task Force on Behavioral, Economic and Socio-cultural Computing * ACM

SIGKDD SIGKDD, representing the Association for Computing Machinery's (ACM) Special Interest Group (SIG) on Knowledge Discovery and Data Mining, hosts an influential annual conference. Conference history The KDD Conference grew from KDD (Knowledge Di ...

Australian and New Zealand Chapter (ANZKDD) Cao published several books and over 300 papers since 2005. Cao's research focuses include

(

data analytics Analytics is the systematic computational analysis of data or statistics. It is used for the discovery, interpretation, and communication of meaningful patterns in data. It also entails applying data patterns toward effective decision-making. It ...

, data mining,

machine learning Machine learning (ML) is a field of inquiry devoted to understanding and building methods that 'learn', that is, methods that leverage data to improve performance on some set of tasks. It is seen as a part of artificial intelligence. Machine ...

information system An information system (IS) is a formal, sociotechnical, organizational system designed to collect, process, store, and distribute information. From a sociotechnical perspective, information systems are composed by four components: task, people ...

), artificial intelligence and intelligent systems. His specialized areas include

and

behavior computing Behavior informatics (BI) is the informatics of behaviors so as to obtain behavior intelligence and behavior insights. BI is a research method combining science and technology, specifically in the area of engineering. The purpose of BI includes a ...

, domain-driven data mining and actionable knowledge discovery,

agent mining Agent mining is an interdisciplinary area that synergizes multiagent systems with data mining and machine learning. The interaction and integration between multiagent systems and data mining have a long history. The very early work on agent mi ...

, non-IID learning, and AI in finance and FinTech. He led a series of enterprise analytics/data science projects for major government and business in domains including social security, taxation, immigration, capital markets, insurance, banking, telecommunication, health, transport, services, and education. Cao won the

Eureka Prize The Eureka Prizes are awarded annually by the Australian Museum, Sydney, to recognise individuals and organizations who have contributed to science and the understanding of science in Australia. They were founded in 1990 following a suggestion ...

for Excellence in Data Science in 2019 awarded by the

Australian Museum The Australian Museum is a heritage-listed museum at 1 William Street, Sydney central business district, New South Wales, Australia. It is the oldest museum in Australia,Design 5, 2016, p.1 and the fifth oldest natural history museum in the ...

References

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