Supervision

Current Research Associates

Current Students (under my main supervision or working closely)

  • Le Pan, PhD student, from Tongji University, to be started from T3 2020
  • Guanglin Zhou, PhD student, from University of Science and Technology of China, to be started from T3 2020
  • Zesheng Ye, PhD student, from UNSW, to be started from T2 2020
  • Yun Li, PhD student, from Nanjing University, October 2019
  • Xuesong Wang, PhD student, from Tongji University, August 2019
  • Xiaocong Chen, Master by Research, from UNSW, March 2019
  • Yuanjiang Cao, PhD student, from Harbin Institute of Technology, March 2019
  • Can Li, PhD student, from Rutgers University, March 2019
  • Zhe Liu, PhD student, from Jilin University, September 2018
  • Zhihui Li, PhD student, from Beijing University of Posts and Telecommunications, August 2018
    • AAAI-19 Student Travel Grant
  • May S. Altulayan, PhD student, from King Saud University, Mar 2018 -
  • Feng Yuan, PhD student, from University of Science and Technology of China, Mar 2018 -
    • ACM SIGIR 2019 Student Travel Grant

    • IJCAI 2019 Student Travel Grant
  • Lei Bai, PhD student, from Xidian University, August 2017 -
    • IJCAI 2019 Student Travel Grant

    • Global Fellow Programme 2019 (only 4 awardees universitywide, only representative from Faulty of Engineering)

    • PAKDD 2019 Student Travel Grant
  • Usama Salama, PhD student (part-time), May 2016 -

Current Visiting Students

  • Qingyang Li, PhD student from Northwestern Polytechnical University University, Sep. 2019 -
  • Xu Wang, PhD student from Tsinghua University, Feb. 2019 -
  • Huan Liu, PhD student from Xi'an Jiaotong University, Sept. 2018 -
  • Lei Wang, PhD student from Nanjing University, Sept. 2018 -
  • Yang Xiao, PhD student from Xidian University, Sept. 2017 -

Current Research Project Students

  • Shan Wang, Bachelor, Sept. 2019 -
  • Zesheng Ye, Honors Student, Mar. 2019 -
  • Chang Ge, Bachelor of Software Engineering Student, Mar. 2019 -
  • Guozhao Luo, Master of Computer Science, Mar. 2019 -

Alumni

  • Dalin Zhang, from University of Chinese Academy of Science (Primary Supervisor, thesis submitted on 14 Feb 2020)
    • First job is a tenure track Assistant Professor at Aalborg University, Denmark
  • Kaixuan Chen, from Xi'an Jiaotong University (Primary Supervisor, awarded on 02 April 2020)
    • First job is a tenure track Assistant Professor at Aalborg University, Denmark
    • Selected to attend the Rising Stars: Women in Engineering Workshop 2019
    • IJCAI 2019 Student Travel Grant
    • AAAI-19 Student Travel Grant
  • Xiang Zhang, PhD student, from Harbin Institute of Technology, (Primary Supervisor, thesis submitted on 05 Nov 2019)
    • First job is a PostDoc in Harvard Medical School
    • Engineering PhD Summit of EPFL 2019 (11 recipients worldwide)
    • KDD 2019 Student Travel Grant
    • 2018 Google Ph.D. Fellowship in Human-Computer Interactions (only 4 awardees in Australia)
  • Manqing Dong, PhD student, from City Univeristy of Hong Kong, (Primary Supervisor, awarded on 05 Dec 2019, PostDoc at UNSW)
    • First job is a PostDoc at UNSW
    • PAKDD 2019 Student Travel Grant
  • Shuai Zhang, PhD student, from Nanjing University, (Primary Supervisor, awarded on 20 Nov 2019, Postdoc at ETH Zurich)
    • First job is a PostDoc at ETH Zurich
    • NeurIPS 2019 Student Travel Grant
    • Internship at Amazon
    • IJCAI 2019 Student Travel Grant
    • AAAI-19 Student Travel Grant
    • ACM SIGIR 2017 Travel Grant
  • Xiaodong Ning, PhD student at UNSW, from Nanyang Technological University, (Primary Supervisor, awarded on 19/06/2019, Zhengzhou Commodity Exchange)
  • Tran Khoi Nguyen,PhD student at UoA (Co-supervisor, Feb 2015 - Sept. 2018)
  • Abdullah Masod O Alfazi, PhD student at UoA (Co-supervisor, S2 2013 - July 2017)
  • Wenjie Ruan, PhD student at UoA (Co-supervisor, March 2014 - May 2017)
  • Xiaoqing Zhang, PhD student from Southwestern University of Finance and Economics, August 2017 -
  • Yuxi Yang, CSC Visiting student from Fudan University, March 2016 - July 2016
  • Xigang Yuan, PhD student from Southwestern University of Finance and Economics, Sept 2016 -
  • Xiaocong Chen, "Multi-contextual Collaborative Recommendation", Honors Student, Mar. 2018 -
  • Keith Lai, "Enabling Silent Communications by Deep Decoding Brain Signals", Bachelor of Software Engineering/Commerce Student, Mar. 2018 -
  • William Guo, "Citywide Human Mobility Pattern Modelling and Visualisation", Bachelor of Software Engineering/Commerce Student, Mar. 2018 -
  • Bohan Yu, "EEG-Based Brain Controlled Smart Phone through Deep Learning", Bachelor Student, Mar. 2018 -
  • Lin Tang, "Detecting Abnormal Daily Activities from Activity-aware Sensor Networks", Master Research Project, 2015 - 2016
  • You Mu, "Activity Pattern Discovery via Analysing Sensor Streams in Smart Home", Master Research Project, 2015 - 2016
  • Guangyang Qi, "Are You in a Good Mood or Bad Mood? Sensing Emotions via Your Smart Phone", Master Research Project, 2015 - 2016 and Research Assistant, Oct 2016 - Mar 2017.
  • Stefan Goiangiuliani,"Indoor Localization via Bluetooth Beacon Propagation", Bachelor CS (Advanced) Research Project, 2015
  • Zhen Zhu, "Trust based Social Recommendation", Master Research Project, 2015
  • Xiaogang (Norm) Dong, "Building Linked Events from Ubiquitous Sensing Data Over Internet of Things", Honors Research Project, 2015
  • Yan Zhou, "A Fall Detection and Prevention System based on Smartphones", Master Research Project, 2015
  • Jack Gerrits, "Building Harry Potter's Marauders Map via Internet of Things", Bachelor CS (Advanced) Research Project, 2015. Microsoft Internship 2015
  • Leon Chea, "Automatically Detect Social Actions via an Accelerometer in Smartphone", Bachelor CS (Advanced) Research Project, 2015
  • Yuchieh (Henry) Yang, "Do I Use My Smartphone Wrong? Automatically Recognize Unhealthy Use of Smartphones", Bachelor CS (Advanced) Research Project, 2015
  • Wan Zou, "Unified Human Activity and Sensor Locations Recognition From Wearable Inertial Sensors", Master Research Project, 2014 - 2015
  • Andrew Pham, "Preventing False Fire Alarm by Making Things Talking", Bachelor CS (Advanced) Research Project, 2014. Microsoft Internship 2014
  • Zhi Yang, "Human Action Recognition via Learning Body-worn Low-level Sensing Data", Master Research Project, 2014
  • Qi He, "Exploring Context-aware Location Recommendation with Mining Location-based Social Networks", Master Research Project, 2014
  • Bobaker Madi, "A Probabilistic Latent Model for Web Service QoS Prediction", Master Research Project, 2012 - 2013
  • Yuguo Li, "Building a RESTful Localization Web Service for Web of Things", Honors Research Project, 2011 - 2012

Visiting Scholars

  • Prof. Dongyun Gu, from Shanghai Jiaotong University, Feb 2017
  • Dr. Jian Yu, from Auckland University of Technology, Dec 2016
  • Dr. Xue Li, from Harbin Institute of Technology, August 2016 -
  • Dr. Chunguang Li, from Changzhou Institute of Technology Dec 2016 -
  • Dr. Wei Liang, Dec 2016 - Dec 2017