Longbing Cao (; 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 university, public research university located in Sydney, New South Wales, Australia. The university was founded in its current form in 1988, though its origins as a Institute of technology, ...

, Australia. His broad research interest involves

artificial intelligence Artificial intelligence (AI) is the capability of computer, computational systems to perform tasks typically associated with human intelligence, such as learning, reasoning, problem-solving, perception, and decision-making. It is a field of re ...

data science Data science is an interdisciplinary academic field that uses statistics, scientific computing, scientific methods, processing, scientific visualization, algorithms and systems to extract or extrapolate knowledge from potentially noisy, stru ...

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 ...

, and their enterprise applications.

Biography

Cao received one PhD in

Pattern Recognition Pattern recognition is the task of assigning a class to an observation based on patterns extracted from data. While similar, pattern recognition (PR) is not to be confused with pattern machines (PM) which may possess PR capabilities but their p ...

and Intelligent Systems from Chinese Academy of Science and another PhD in Computing Science at the

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

data communication Data communication, including data transmission and data reception, is the transfer of data, transmitted and received over a point-to-point or point-to-multipoint communication channel. Examples of such channels are copper wires, optic ...

. 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: 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'', the oldest AI publication in

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. 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 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, which also falls under and directly relates to the umbrella term, data sci ...

data mining Data mining is the process of extracting and finding patterns in massive data sets involving methods at the intersection of machine learning, statistics, and database systems. Data mining is an interdisciplinary subfield of computer science and ...

machine learning Machine learning (ML) is a field of study in artificial intelligence concerned with the development and study of Computational statistics, statistical algorithms that can learn from data and generalise to unseen data, and thus perform Task ( ...

information system An information system (IS) is a formal, sociotechnical, organizational system designed to collect, process, Information Processing and Management, store, and information distribution, distribute information. From a sociotechnical perspective, info ...

), 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, 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 for Excellence in Data Science in 2019 awarded by the

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References

{{DEFAULTSORT:Cao, Longbing Australian computer scientists 1969 births Academic staff of the University of Technology Sydney Living people