Kewen Liao
Associate Professor In Data Analytics And Machine Learning
Melbourne, Victoria, Australia
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Top SchoolKewen Liao is an algorithms-focused data scientist and associate professor in data analytics and machine learning with 11 years of academic and research experience across Australian universities and industry. He holds a PhD in Computer Science and combines theoretical foundations in algorithms with applied work on multimodal data—images, graphs, text, tabular and spatio-temporal streams—across domains from biomedical and health to cybersecurity and IoT. His career blends teaching and course leadership (including coordinating Master of IT programs and ACS accreditation) with hands-on research leadership as director of HilstLab and chief investigator on ARC-funded projects. Kewen has experience translating discrete optimization and machine learning into practical solutions (including a granted US patent from prior industry work) and remains active in database, data mining and big-data analytics research. Based in Melbourne, he is known for bridging rigorous algorithmic thinking with real-world data-intensive systems and for supervising industry-integrated learning and applied AI units.
11 years of coding experience
1 year of employment as a software developer
Doctor of Philosophy (Ph.D.) Computer Science, Doctor of Philosophy (Ph.D.) Computer Science at University of AdelaideBachelor's Degree Computer Science, Bachelor's Degree Computer Science at University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign
English, Chinese
Github Skills (6)
autocomplete6
boost6
compile6
latex5
colorize4
typesetting4
Programming languages (1)
Github contributions (4)
mpetri/rlz-store
Jun 2015 - Apr 2016
Contributions:76 commits in 9 months
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