Professor Lina Yao
PhD - University of Adelaide. 2014
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Prof. Lina Yao is currently a Senior Principal Research Scientist and Science Lead at CSIRO's Data61, and Conjoint Full Professor at UNSW. Prior to that, she is a Scientia Associate Professor and Acting Associate Head of School (Research) in the School of Computer Science and Engineering. She is leading the research groupÌý(D2ÌýLab) founded in 2016. We strive for developing generalizable and explainable data-efficient data mining, machine learning and deep learning algorithms—as well as designing systems and interfaces—to enable novel ways of human-machine interactions, including an improved understanding of challenges such as robustness, trust, explainability and resilience that improve human-autonomy partnership.
Her research area is in Few-Shot Learning, Zero-Shot Learning, Deep Reinforcement Learning, Meta-Learning, Neural Process, Self-supervised Learning, Graph Neural Networks and their applications in a broad range of applications in Recommender Systems, Computer Vision, Brain-Computer Interface, Biomedical Image Analysis, Intelligent Transportation System, and Internet of Things.ÌýShe maintains a strong international research collaboration with world-leading universities such as Stanford University, Tsinghua University, UCSD, TU WienÌýetc. She is serving as Associate Editor for ACM Transactions on Sensor Networks (), Knowledge-based Systems () andÌý. She has over 200 peer-reviewed publications both in international leading conferences and journals including NeurIPS, SIGKDD, WWW, SIGIR, ICDM, CVPR, UbiComp, AAAI, IJCAI etc.
Up to date information can be found at her personal website -Ìýhttps://www.linayao.com/
- Publications
- Media
- Grants
- Awards
- Research Activities
- Engagement
- Teaching and Supervision
Australia Category-1 Grants:
- ARC Discovery Project, Lead CI,ÌýGeneralisable and Unbiased Dynamic Recommender Systems, 2023-2026
- ACARP, Chief Investigator, Risk Based Model for Forecasting Longwall Face Cavity Development, 2022 - 2023
- ARC Discovery Project, Lead CI, Robust Preference Inference from Spatial-Temporal Interaction Networks, 2021 - 2023
- ARC Linkage Project, Lead CI, Context and Activity Recognition for Personalised Behaviour Recommendation, 2020 - 2022
- ARC LIEF, CI, "A Large-Scale Distributed Experimental Facility for the Internet of Things", Australian Research Council Linkage Infrastructure, Equipment and Facilities Project, 2018
- ARC DECRA Award, Sole CI, "Effective Recommendation for Web of Things", Australian Research Council Discovery Early Career Researcher Award, 2016-2018
Others:
- EpiWatch – Artificial Intelligence Early-Warning System for Epidemics, CI, Medical Research Future Fund 2021 - 2022
- Machine learning techniques for self-aware computing, Sole CI, Defence Science and Technology Group, 2021 - 2025
- Deep learning for objective measure of tinnitus, CI, British Tinnitus Association 2021 - 2024
- Exploration of Hierarchy of Learning Models in Relation to Goals, Defence Science and Technology Group, 2020-2023
- Long Range/BAA Project, Sole CI, "Context-aware Intent Prediction for Human-Machine Cooperation Improvement", Office of Naval Research (US Department of Navy), 2019 - 2021
- Multi-faceted Adaptive Trust Management in Federated/Distributed Data and AI Systems, Lead CI, Collaborative Research Project, Data61, 2019 - 2021
Selected awards:
- Outstanding Research Contribution Award (formerly named after Chris Wallace), The Computing Research and Education Association of Australasia (CORE) 2023
- Listed among the World’ Top 2% Scientists in the 2022 list compiled by Stanford University and published at PLOS in the single year category.
- Educational Excellence and Innovation Group Award, UNSW Faculty of Engineering Excellence Awards 2021
- Winner of 2021 Australia and New Zealand Women in AI Awards in the category of AI in Cybersecurity, 2021
- Listed among the World’ Top 2% Scientists in the 2021 list compiled by Stanford University and published at PLOS in the single year category.
- Academic Excellence, UNSW Faculty of Engineering Excellence Awards, 2020
- Ìý2020, UNSW
- Listed among the World’ Top 2% Scientists in the 2020 list compiled by Stanford University and published at PLOS in the single year category.
- , The University of Adelaide 2015
- Dean's Commendation for Doctoral Thesis Excellence, The University of Adelaide 2014
- Google PhD Prize, Google 2012
- TechVouchers Project - Succession Plus Australia, Co-CI, Automatic and Integrative Business Solution for Valuation Data Warehousing, Department of Industry, New South Wales 2020
- Cooperative Research Centres Projects, CI, DeepIoT – A New Hybrid Wireless IoT Platform for Underground Mines, 2020 - 2023
- TechVouchers Project - iKnow Pty Ltd., Sole CI, Customter-centric Interactive Decision Making System, Department of Industry, New South Wales, 2019
- UNSW-Tsinghua University Collaborative Research Fund, CI, "iAgeWell: A Unified Computational Mobile Solution for Personalised Wellness management in Senior Citizens", 2019 -2020
- TechVoucher Project, Co-CI, Inkerz Smartpen, Department of Industry, New South Wales, 2019
- TechVouchers Project - Raiz Pty Ltd., Sole CI, "Collaborative Deep Learning based Personalized Product Recommendation Model", Department of Industry, New South Wales, 2018
- UNSW-Tsinghua University Collaborative Research Fund, Lead CI, "City Pulse: A Unified Computational Framework for Data-driven, People-centric Smarter City Applications", 2018 - 2019
My Research Supervision
Please check my personal website or Data Dynamics website for more information.
My Teaching
COMP9727 - Recommender Systems
COMP9321 - Data Service Engineering
UNSW CSE Honour thesis and Master's research project students
Vertically Integrated Project - Data Dynamics