Dr. Xiaohui Tao, PhD
Professor Dr. Xiaohui Tao holds a distinguished position at the University of Southern Queensland's (UniSQ) School of Mathematics, Physics, and Computing in Australia. Currently, he is the Head of School and Dean (acting), Computing Discipline Team Leader, and presides as the Chair of the ICT Programs’ Governance and Leadership Committee at UniSQ. 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-recognized with over 190+ publications in eminent journals such as TKDE, TOIS, TIST, INFFUS, IPM, and notable conferences including AAAI, IJCAI, SIGIR, EMNLP, ICDE, and CIKM. Beyond individual research, he spearheads a prominent research group that prioritizes innovative algorithms and systems with significant real-world applications. Additionally, he has exhibited exceptional mentorship, having successfully supervised ten doctoral candidates to completion.
Dr. Tao's contributions to the academic community have been acknowledged with prestigious awards like the Australia Research Council Grant 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 Deputy 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, the TCII Bulletin, and Web Intelligence (CCF C). He has further enhanced his profile by serving in key roles in conferences such as WI-IAT and BESC, and more.
Dr. Tao concluded his PhD in Information Technology from the Queensland University of Technology, Australia, in 2009.
Academic Leadership and Research Community Services
Academic Leadership
- Head of School and Dean (acting), School of Mathematics, Physics and Computing, UniSQ, Feb 2024-present
- Deputy Chair, Technical Committee on Intelligent Informatics (TCII), IEEE, 2023-present
- Chair, ICT Programs Governance & Leadership Committee, UniSQ, 2022-present
- Head of School (acting), School of Mathematics, Physics and Computing, UniSQ, May-June 2022
- School Executive Committee member, SoMPC, UniSQ, 2021-present
- Computing Discipline Leader, UniSQ, 2021-present
- Deputy Chair, ICT Programs Governance & Leadership Committee, UniSQ, 2021
- Program Director, Master of Data Science, UniSQ, 2016-2021
- Program Director, Master of Science, UniSQ, 2016-2019
- Program Director, Master of Computing, UniSQ, 2016-2019
- Program Director, Master of Computing Technology, UniSQ, 2016-2019
Editorship
- Editor-in-Chief, Web Intelligence Journal, 2024-present
- Editor-in-Chief, Natural Language Processing Journal, Elsevier, 2022-present
- Editor-in-Chief, IEEE Intelligent Informatics Bulletin, 2019-present
- Managing Editor, Web Intelligence Journal, 2020-2023
- Associate Editor, Human-centric Intelligent Systems, an International Journal, 2021-present
- Associate Editor, Computers and Education: Artificial Intelligence, 2021-present
- Associate Editor, Scalable Information Systems, 2020-present
- Editorial Board member, Information Fusion, Elsevier, 2022-present
Guest Editorship
- Human-Centered Artificial Intelligence, Information Processing and Management, 2022
- Web-based Intelligent Financial Services: Emerging Challenges and Recent Advances, World Wide Web Journal, 2022
- EEG Data Research Using Artificial Intelligence Technologies for Healthcare, Sensors, 2022
- Web Intelligence = Artificial Intelligence in the Connected World, World Wide Web Journal, 2021
- Multi-Source Information Fusion for Smart Health with AI, Information Fusion, 2020
- Computational Social Science as the Ultimate Web Intelligence, World Wide Web Journal, 2019
- Multi-source Multimedia Data Understanding, Multimedia Tools and Applications, Springer, 2018
- Affective and Sentimental Computing, International Journal of Machine Learning and Cybernetics, 2017
Regular Journal Reviewer (selected)
- IEEE TKDE, TPDS, TCC, TSC, TII, TITS, INFFUS, J-BHI, IEEE Intell. Syst., IEEE IoT, ACM TMIS, TWEB, TALIP, Neural Netw., Knowl.-Based Syst., INFFUS, IP&M, PRL, Comput. Biol. Med., BMC Bioinformatics, WWWJ, HISS, SNAM, ECR, and more.
Conference Organisation (2014-)
- Program Committee Chair/Co-chair: WI 2017-18, 23; AIRS 2019, BESC 2018, 2021, WI-IAT 2021
- Special Session Chair: BESC 2015, 2019
- Workshop Co-Chair: CPSCom 2015, APWeb-WAIM 2021
- Publication Co-chair: ASONAM 2014
- Session Chair: ADMA 2016; WI 2016, 2018, APWeb-WAIM 2021, WISE 2020, 2021
- Workshop Organiser: KMWSM 2015, 2017-18; MLACS 2019
PC Member (selected, 2014-)
- 2023: AAAI, PAKDD, ECAI, WISE, ADMA, KSEM, APWeb-WAIM,
- 2022: PAKDD, WISE, ASONAM, APWeb-WAIM, DSAA, PRICA
- 2021: IJCAI, PAKDD, WISE, ASONAM, APWeb-WAIM, DSAA
- 2020: PAKDD, WISE, ASONAM, APWeb, HIS, BESC, DSC, DSAA, AusDM
- 2019: PAKDD, ASONAM, HIS, BESC, AusDM, ICEBE
- 2018: PAKDD, ASONAM, HIS, BESC, AusDM, ICEBE, WI, ISMIS, APWeb, WISE
- 2017: PAKDD, ASONAM, HIS, BESC, AusDM, ICEBE, WI, ISMIS, IoP, ICA
- 2016: PAKDD, HIS, BESC, AusDM, ICEBE, WI, IoP, ICA, IMMM, BIH
- 2015: PAKDD, DSAA, BESC, AusDM, ICEBE, WI, IMMM, SocialCom
- 2014: PAKDD, ASONAM, BESC, AusDM, ICEBE, WI, IMMM, SocialCom, AMT
