Emeritus / Honorary / Adjunct / Visiting Appointments and Professors of Practice
Prof. XU Guandong (Visiting Professor)
Professor, School of Computer Science & Data Science, University of Technology Sydney
BSc, MSc (Zhejiang); PhD (Victoria)
- PQ711
- +852 2766 7281
- guandong.xu@polyu.edu.hk
Biography
Prof. Guandong Xu is a Professor in the School of Computer Science and Data Science Institute at UTS and an award-winning researcher working in the fields of data mining, machine learning, social computing and other associated fields. Guandong is the Director of the UTS-Providence Smart Future Research Centre, which targets research and innovation in disruptive technology to drive sustainability. His research has attracted funding of more than $10 million from the ARC, government and industry. He also heads the Data Science and Machine Intelligence Lab, which is dedicated to research excellence and industry innovation across academia and industry, aligning with the UTS research priority areas in data science and artificial intelligence.
Guandong has had more than 240 papers published in the fields of Data Science, Recommender Systems, Text Mining, Predictive Analytics, and Social Computing in international journals and conference proceedings in recent years, with increasing citations from academia.
He has shown strong academic leadership in various professional activities. He is the founding Editor-in-Chief of Human-centric Intelligent Systems Journal (Springer), the Assistant Editor-in-Chief of World Wide Web Journal (Springer), as well as the founding Steering Committee Chair of the International Conference of Behavioural and Social Computing.
He was elected as the Fellow of Institution of Engineering and Technology (IET), UK and the Fellow of Australian Computer Society (ACS) in 2021 and 2022.
Guandong has had more than 240 papers published in the fields of Data Science, Recommender Systems, Text Mining, Predictive Analytics, and Social Computing in international journals and conference proceedings in recent years, with increasing citations from academia.
He has shown strong academic leadership in various professional activities. He is the founding Editor-in-Chief of Human-centric Intelligent Systems Journal (Springer), the Assistant Editor-in-Chief of World Wide Web Journal (Springer), as well as the founding Steering Committee Chair of the International Conference of Behavioural and Social Computing.
He was elected as the Fellow of Institution of Engineering and Technology (IET), UK and the Fellow of Australian Computer Society (ACS) in 2021 and 2022.
