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Lina YaoLina Yao

CSIRO’s Data61
Analytics and Decision Sciences

Physical Location: 
Level 5, 13 Garden Street, Eveleigh, NSW 2015
Phone: 
+61 2 9385 6588
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Website: 
http://www.linayao.com/
Perseverance with an open and growth mind and a brave heart
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Selected Professional Services

Journal Editorships

  • Associate Editor, IEEE Transactions on Artificial Intelligence (IEEE Transactions on Artificial Intelligence) since Jan. 2024
  • Leading Associate Editor (Intelligent Computing Track), Tsinghua Science and Technology (Tsinghua Science and Technology) since Jan. 2024
  • Associate Editor, Brain-X (Brain-X) since 2023
  • Associate Editor, ACM Transactions on Recommender Systems (ACM TORS) since Sept 2022
  • Editorial Board, Nature Scientific Reports (Scientific Reports) since Mar.2022
  • Associate Editor, ACM Transactions on Asian and Low-Resource Language Information Processing (TALLIP), since Feb 2022
  • Associate Editor, Frontiers in Big Data (Frontiers in Big Data) in Section of Recommender Systems, since March 2021
  • Associate Editor, Knowledge-based Systems (KBS), since Feb. 2021
  • Associate Editor, ACM Transactions on Sensor Networks (TOSN), since Sept. 2019
  • Guest Editor, Special Issue on Few-shot Learning for Human-machine Interactions (FSL-HMI), Pattern Recognition Letters. Xianzhi Wang, Lina Yao, Yu Zhang, Jordi Solé-Casals 2021
  • Guest Editor, Special Issue on Recommender System, CCF Transactions on Pervasive Computing and Interaction. Xing Xie, Bin Guo, Lina Yao, Yong Li, Xia Hu, 2019
  • Guest Editor, special issue on Wearable Sensor Signal Processing for Smart Health, Smart Health Journal (Smart Health), Yuan Zhang, Lina Yao, Fatos Xhafa and Carolina Ruiz. 2017
  • Editor, Managing the Web of Things: Linking the Real World to the Web, Morgan Kaufmann, Elsevier. 2017
  • Guest Editor, special issue on Big Data Analytics and the Web, IEEE Transactions on Big Data (TBD), Quan Z. Sheng, Athanasios V. Vasilakos, Qi Yu and Lina Yao. 2016

SPC/PC member

  • WSDM, AAAI, ICLR, NeurIPS,TheWebConf (WWW), WSDM, IPSN, SDM, SIGKDD, SIGIR, IJCAI, ICML, ICCV, ECCV, CVPR, ICDM, CIKM etc
  • PC Member, The 35th Annual Conference on Neural Information Processing Systems , (NeurIPS 2021), Virtual, Dec. 6 - 14, 2021
  • PC Member, The 2021 IEEE International Conference on Data Mining (ICDM 2021) (ICDM 2021), Auckland, New Zealand, December 7 - 10, 2021.
  • Senior PC Member, The 30th International Conference on Information and Knowledge Management, (ACML 2021), Nov. 17 - 19, Virtually 2021
  • Senior PC Member, The 30th International Conference on Information and Knowledge Management, (CIKM 2021), Long Research Paper Track, Gold Coast, Australia, Nov. 1 -5, 2021
  • PC Member, The 22nd International conference on Web Information Systems Engineering (WISE) (WISE 2021), Melbourne, Australia, Oct 26 - 29, 2021.
  • PC Member, The International Conference on Computer Vision (ICCV 2021), Montreal, Canada Oct. 11 - 27, 2021
  • PC Member, The 38th International Conference on Machine Learning (ICML 2021), Virtually, July 18 - 24, 2021
  • Senior PC Member, the 30th International Joint Conference on Artificial Intelligence (IJCAI 2021), Montreal, Canada, August 21, 2021
  • PC Member, The 27th ACM SIGKDD Conference on Knowledge Discovery and Data Mining (KDD 2021), Singapore, August 14 - 18, 2021
  • PC Member, 2021 Conference on Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition (CVPR 2021), June 19 - 25, Virtually, 2021
  • PC Member, The 25th Pacific-Asia Conference on Knowledge Discovery and Data Mining (PAKDD 2021), May 11-14, Delhi, India, 2021
  • PC Member, 2021 Conference on Human Factors in Computing Systems (CHI 2021), May 8 - 13, Virtually, 2021
  • PC Member, The 26th International Conference on Database Systems for Advanced Applications (DASFAA 2021), April 11 - 14, Taiwan 2021
  • PC Member, The 35th AAAI Conference on Artifical Intelligence (AAAI-21), Feburary 2 - February 9, Virtually, 2021
  • PC Member, The 34th Annual Conference on Neural Information Processing Systems , (NeurIPS 2020), Vancouver Convention Center, Vancouver Canada, Dec. 6 - 12, 2020
  • PC Member, The 29th International Conference on Information and Knowledge Management, (CIKM 2020), Galway, Ireland, Oct. 19 -23, 2020
  • PC Member, The ACM Multimedia 2020 (ACM MM 2020), Seattle, United States, Oct 12 - 16, 2020
  • PC Member, The 26th ACM SIGKDD Conference on Knowledge Discovery and Data Mining (KDD 2020), San Diego, California USA, August 22 - 27, 2020.
  • PC Member, Demos Track, The 43rd Annual ACM SIGIR Conference on Research and Development in Information Retrieval (SIGIR 2020). (SIGIR 2020), Xi'an, China USA, July 25 - 30, 2020.
  • PC Member, The 2020 IEEE International Conference on Data Mining (ICDM 2020) (ICDM 2020), Sorrento, Italy, November 17-20, 2020.
  • PC Member, the 29th International Joint Conference on Artificial Intelligence and the 17th Pacific Rim International Conference on Artificial Intelligence (IJCAI-PRICAI 2020), Yokohama, Japan, July 11-17, 2020
  • PC Member, The 25th International Conference on Database Systems for Advanced Applications (DASFAA 2020), May 21 - 25, Jeju, South Korea, 2020
  • PC Member, The 24th Pacific-Asia Conference on Knowledge Discovery and Data Mining (PAKDD 2020), May 11-14, Singapore, 2020
  • PC Member, The 19th International Conference on Information Processing in Sensor Networks (IPSN 2020) (IPSN 2020), Sydney, Australia, April 21-24, 2020.
  • PC Member, The 34th AAAI Conference on Artifical Intelligence (AAAI-20), Feburary 7 - February 12, New York, USA, 2020
  • PC Member, The 2019 IEEE International Conference on Data Mining (ICDM 2019) (ICDM 2019), Beijing, China, November 8-11, 2019
  • PC Member, The 28th International Conference on Information and Knowledge Management, (CIKM 2019), Beijing, China, Nov.3 - 7, 2019
  • PC Member, The ACM Multimedia 2019 (ACM MM 2019), Nice, France, Oct 21 - 25, 2019
  • PC Member, European Conference on Machine Learning and Principles and Practice of Knowledge Discovery in Databases 2019 (ECML-PADD 2019), Würzburg, Germany, Sept. 16 - 20, 2019
  • PC Member, The 28th International Joint Conference on Artificial Intelligence (IJCAI-19), Macau, China, August 10 - 16, 2019
  • PC Member, The 20th International Symposium on a World of Wireless, Mobile and Multimedia Networks (WoWMoM 2019), Washington D.C., USA, Jun 9 - 12, 2019
  • PC Member, The 24th International Conference on Database Systems for Advanced Applications (DASFAA 2019), April 22 - 25, Chiang Mai, Thailand, 2019
  • PC Member, The 23rd Pacific-Asia Conference on Knowledge Discovery and Data Mining (PAKDD 2019), April 14 - 17, Macau, China, 2019
  • PC Member, The 33rd AAAI Conference on Artifical Intelligence (AAAI-19), January 27 - February 1, Honolulu, Hawaii, USA, 2019
  • PC Member, The 15th EAI International Conference on Mobile and Ubiquitous Systems: Computing, Networking and Services (MobiQuitous 2018), New York City, New York, United States, November 5 - 7, 2018
  • PC Member, The 28th International Conference on Information and Knowledge Management, Long Paper Track (CIKM 2018), Lingotto, Turin, Italy, Oct. 22 - 26, 2018
  • PC member, The 16th International Conference on Service Oriented Computing (( ICSOC 2018)), Hangzhou, China, November 12 - 15, 2018
  • PC Member, The 15th IEEE International Conference on Mobile Ad-hoc and Sensor Systems (MASS 2018), Chengdu, China, Oct. 5 - 7, 2018
  • PC Member, The 27th International Joint Conference on Artificial Intelligence (IJCAI-18), Stockholm, Sweden, July 13-19, 2018
  • PC Member, The 25th International Conference on Web Services (ICWS 2018), Seattle, USA, June 25 - 30, 2018
  • PC Member, IEEE International Conference on Pervasive Computing and Communications (PerCom 2018), Demo Track, Athens, Greece, Mar 19, 2018 - Mar 23, 2018
  • PC Member, The 19th International Symposium on a World of Wireless, Mobile and Multimedia Networks (WoWMoM 2018), Chania, Crete, Greece, Jun 12, 2018 - Jun 15, 2018
  • PC Member, The 32nd AAAI Conference on Artifical Intelligence (AAAI-18), New Orleans, Lousiana, USA, 2 - 7 February, 2018
  • PC Member, The 1st International Conference on Blockchain (ICBC 2018), Seattle, USA, June 25, 2018
  • PC Member, The 4th IEEE International Conference on Big Data Computer Service and Applications (BigDataService 2018), Bamberg, Germany, March 26 – 29, 2018
  • PC member, The 14th International Conference on Service Oriented Computing (( ICSOC 2017)), Malaga, Spain, November 13 - 16, 2017
  • PC Member, The 27th International Conference on Information and Knowledge Management, Demonstration Track (CIKM 2017), Singapore, Nov. 6 - 10, 2017
  • PC Member, The 13rd International Conference on Advanced Data Mining and Applications (ADMA 2017), Singapore, Nov 5 - 6, 2017
  • PC Member, The 2nd International Workshop on Big Data Analytics for Smart and Connected Health (BigDataHealth 2017), Philadelphia, USA, July 7, 2017
  • PC Member, The 24th International Conference on Web Services (ICWS 2017), Honolulu, Hawaii, USA, June 25 - June 30, 2017
  • PC Member, The 31st AAAI Conference on Artifical Intelligence (AAAI-17), San Francisco, California USA, 4 - 9 February, 2017
  • Program Co-chair, Australasian Web Conferences (AWC 2017), 31 January - 3 February, Geelong, Victoria, Australia 2017
  • PC Member, The 16th IEEE International Conference on Ubiquitous Computing and Communications (IUCC 2017), Guangzhou, China, December 12 - 15, 2017
  • PC Member, International Telecommunication Networks and Applications Conference (ITNAC 2017), Melbourne, Australia, 22 Nov - 24 Nov, 2017
  • PC Member, The 5th International Conference on Future Internet of Things and Cloud (FiCloud 2017), Prague, Czech Republic, Aug 23, 2017
  • PC Member, The 3rd IEEE International Conference on Cloud and Big Data Computing (CBDCom 2017), San Francisco Bay Area, August 4 - 8, 2017
  • PC Member, The 14th International Conference on Mobile Systems and Pervasive Computing (MobiSPC-2017), Leuven, Belgium, July 24-26, 2017
  • PC Member, Advanced Data Mining and Applications (ADMA 2016), Gold Coast, Australia, 12 Dec - 15 Dec, 2016
  • PC Member, International Conference on Information Systems (ICIS 2016), Dublin, Ireland, 11 Dec - 14 Dec, 2016
  • PC Member, International Telecommunication Networks and Applications Conference (ITNAC 2016), Dunedin, New Zealand, 7 Dec - 9 Dec, 2016
  • PC member, The 13th International Conference on Mobile Web and Intelligent Information Systems (MobiWis 2016), Vienna, Austria, August 22-24, 2016
  • PC member, Big Data Algorithms, Applications and Services track, The IEEE International Conference on Cloud and Big Data Computing ( IEEE CBDCom ). Toulouse, France, July 18 - 21 2016.
  • PC member, The IEEE International Workshop on Big Data Analytics for Smart and Connected Health (CHASE 2016), Washington.D.C, USA, June 27, 2016
  • Program Co-chair, The 6th International Symposium on Internet of Ubiquitous and Pervasive Things (IUPT 2016), May 23 - 26, Madrid, Spain, 2016
  • PC member, The 8th International Conference on Future Computational Technologies and Applications (FUTURE COMPUTING 2016), March 20 - 24, Rome, Italy 2016.
  • PC member, The 8th Asian Conference on Intelligent Information and Database Systems (ACIIDS 2016). Da Nang, Vietnam, 14-16 March, 2016
  • PC member, Parallel/Distributed Algorithms and Applications Track, The 21st IEEE International Conference on Parallel and Distributed Systems (ICPADS 2015). Melbourne, Australia, Dec 14-18, 2015
  • Program Co-chair, The Asia-Pacific Services Computing Conference (APSCC 2015), Dec 7 - 9, Bangkok, Thailand, 2015
  • Program Co-chair, The 5th International Symposium on Internet of Ubiquitous and Pervasive Things (IUPT 2015), June 2 - 5, 2015, London, United Kingdom, 2015
  • PC member, The 4th International Conference on Data Analytics (DATA ANALYTICS 2015), Nice, France, July 19 - 24, 2015
  • PC member, The 12nd International Conference on Mobile Web and Intelligent Information Systems (MobiWis 2015), Rome, Italy, August 24-26, 2015
  • PC member, The 7th International Conference on Future Computational Technologies and Applications (FUTURE COMPUTING 2015), March 22 - 27, Nice, France 2015.
  • PC member, The IADIS International Conference on Internet Technologies and Society 2014 (ITS 2014), Taipei, Taiwan, October 10 - 12, 2014.
  • PC member, The 7th International Workshop on Personalization in Cloud and Service Computing
  • PC member, The 13th IEEE International Conference on Ubiquitous Computing and Communications (IUCC 2014), Chengdu, China
  • PC member, The 2nd International Workshop on Future Services (FS 2014), Hilton Anchorage, Alaska, USA
  • Honorary Reviewer, Journal of Computer Communication & Collaboration (CCC)
  • Program Co-chair, The 2nd International Workshop on Cloud and Service Engineering (CSE´ 14), Toulouse, France, July 1 - 4, 2014
  • PC member, Theory and Practice in Modern Computing conjunction with IADIS Multi Conference on Computer Science and Information Systems 2014 (TPMC 2014), Lisbon, Portugal, 2014
  • PC member and Advisory Chair, The 3rd International Conference on Data Analytics (DATA ANALYTICS 2014), Rome, Italy, August 24 - 28, 2014
  • Program Co-chair, The 4th International Symphosium on Internet of Ubiquitous and Pervasive Things (IUPT 2014). Hasselt, Belgium, June 2-5, 2014
  • PC member, The Sixth International Conference on Future Computational Technologies and Applications (FUTURE COMPUTING 2014), May 25 - 29, Venice, Italy, 2014
  • PC member, The IADIS International Conference on Internet Technologies and Society 2013 (ITS 2013), Malaysia, November 29 - 1 December, 2013
  • PC member, The 6th International Workshop on Personalization in Cloud and Service Computing ( PCS 2013 ), Nanjing, China, October 13-15, 2013
  • PC member, The 8th International Symposium on Wireless and Pervasive Computing 2013 (ISWPC 2013), Taipei, Taiwan, November 20-22, 2013
  • PC member, The 4th International Conference on Emerging Ubiquitous Systems and Pervasive Networks (EUSPN 2013 ), Niagara Falls, Ontario, Canada, October 21-24, 2013
  • PC member, The 2nd International Conference on Data Analytics (DATA ANALYTICS 2013), Porto, Portugal, September 29 - October 3, 2013
  • Program Co-chair, The International Workshop on Cloud and Service Engineering (CSE 2013), Aalborg, Denmark, July 8, 2013
  • PC member, The First International Workshop on Sensor Data Processing and Integration 2013, Beijing, China, August 21-24, 2013
  • PC member, Theory and Practice in Modern Computing conjunction with IADIS Multi Conference on Computer Science and Information Systems 2013 (TPMC 2013), Prague, Czech Republic, 2013
  • PC member, The Personal and Ubiquitous Computing (PUC) Special Issue on Advance in Context-Aware Mobile Services (PUCSI-CAMS 2013)
  • Program Co-chair, The 3rd International Symphosium on Internet of Ubiquitous and Pervasive Things (IUPT 2013). Halifax, Nova Scotia, Canada, June 25-28, 2013
  • PC member, Springer's Handbook on Web Services 2012
  • PC member, The IADIS International Conference on Internet Technologies and Society 2012 (ITS 2012), Perth, Australia, 28 – 30 November, 2012
  • PC member, The 1st International Conference on Data Analytics (DATA ANALYTICS 2012), Barcelona, Spain, September 23-28, 2012
  • PC member, Theory and Practice in Modern Computing conjunction with IADIS Multi Conference on Computer Science and Information Systems 2012 (TPMC 2012), Lisbon, Portugal, July 17-19, 2012
  • PC member, The 2nd International Conference on Communications and Information Technology (ICCIT 2012), Hammamet, Tunisia, June 26-28, 2012
  • Publicity Chair, The 2nd International Workshop on Internet of Ubiquitous and Pervasive Things (IUPT 2012). Niagara Falls, Ontario, Canada, August 27-29, 2012
  • Publicity Chair, The 5th International Workshop on RFID Technology (IWRT 2011). Niagara Falls, Ontario, Canada, September 19-21, 2011
  • Web Administration Chair, The 7th International Symposium on Web and Mobile Information Services (WAMIS 2011). Singapore, March 22-25, 2011
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Organizing Committee

  • Organization Committee, The 20th International Conference on Mobility, Sensing and Networking (MSN 2024)
  • Senior Area Chair, Research Track of 2024 KDD
  • Senior Area Chair (Track Chair of User Modeling and Recommendation), 2024 Web Conference (formerly WWW)
  • Co-Chair, PhD Symposium, 2024 WISE
  • Member, CORE ranking committee for Machine Learning
  • Area Chair, IJCNLP-AACL 2023
  • Poster Co-Chair, Mobiquitous 2023
  • Workshop Co-Chair, ACM CIKM 2023
  • PC Co-Chair, BDCloud 2022
  • Steering Committee, CML-IOT Workshop on Continual and Multimodal Learning for Internet of Things, adjunct with Ubicomp
  • PC Co-Chair, ADMA 2022
  • PC Co-Chair, ICSOC 2022
  • Workshop Co-chair, Australasia Joint Conference on Artificial Intelligence (AI 2021) (AI 2021), Sydney, Australia, December 1-3, 2021.
  • Area Chair, Asian Conference on Machine Learning (ACML 2021)
  • PC Co-Chair for Short Paper Track, The 30th International Conference on Information and Knowledge Management, (CIKM 2021), Gold Coast, Australia, Nov. 1 -5, 2021.
  • Local Co-Chairs, Cyber-Physical Systems and Internet-of-Things Week (CPS Week 2020) (CPS Week), Sydney, Australia, April 21-24, 2020.
  • Panel Chairs, http://www.acsw.org.au/
  • Local Co-Chairs, BPM 2018
  • Demo and Poster Chair & PC Member, 14th EAI International Conference on Mobile and Ubiquitous Systems: Computing, Networking and Services (MobiQuitous 2017), Melbourne, Australia, November 27 - 30, 2017
  • PC Co-Chair, The 11th IEEE International Conference On Big Data Science And Engineering (IEEE BigDataSE 2017), Sydney, Australia, August 1 - 4, 2017
  • Publicity Co-chair/PC member, The 14th International Conference on Service Oriented Computing (( ICSOC 2016)), Banff, Alberta, Canada, October 10 -13, 2016

Journal Reviewer

  • Reviewer for Journal of Machine Learning (JMLR), ACM Transactions on Information Systems (TOIS), ACM Transactions on Knowledge Discovery from Data (TKDD), IEEE Transactions on Knowledge and Data Engineering (TKDE), ACM Transactions on the Web (TWeb), Distributed and Parallel Databases (DAPD), Information Sciences (Information Science), ACM Transactions on Sensor Networks (TOSN), ACM Transactions on Internet Technology (TOIT), Journal of Ambient Intelligence and Humanized Computing (JAIHC), The Computer Journal, IEEE Transactions on Network and Service Management (TNSM), Journal of Mobile Information System , Journal of Computer Science and Technology (JCST), International Journal of Physical Sciences (IJPS), IEEE Transactions on Services Computing (TSC), Service Oriented Computing and Applications(SOCA), Information System Frontier (ISF ) World Wide Web Journal (WWWJ ) etc.