ARTIFICIAL INTELLIGENCE

DATA ANALYTICS

KNOWLEDGE DISCOVERY

MACHINE UNLEARNING

NATURAL LANGUAGE PROCESSING

HEALTH INFORMATICS

Xiaohui Tao, Ph.D

Professor in Computer Science

School of Science, Engineering, and Digital Technologies

University of Southern Queensland, Australia

ABOUT

Professor Dr. Xiaohui Tao holds a distinguished position at the University of Southern Queensland's (UniSQ) School of Science, Engineering, and Digital Technologies in Australia. Currently, he is the Computing Discipline Head, and presides as the Chair of 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-recognised with over 280 publications in eminent journals such as TPAMI, TKDE, TOIS, TNNLS, TIST, TBD, and TIT and notable conferences including NeurIPS, AAAI, IJCAI, ICML, SIGKDD, ACMMM, SIGIR, ICDE, ACL, and EMNLP. Beyond individual research, he spearheads a prominent research group that prioritises 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 Australian Research Council’s Discovery Project and Linkage Project Grants 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 endeavours include serving as the Editor-in-Chief for Elsevier's Natural Language Processing Journal, IOS Press' Web Intelligence (CCF C), and the IEEE TCII Bulletin. He has further enhanced his profile by serving in key roles in conference series such as WI-IAT, BI, BESC, CBD, and more.

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