Rate My Professor Longbing Cao

Professor Longbing Cao is the Distinguished Chair in Artificial Intelligence in the School of Computing at Macquarie University, where he also directs the Frontier AI Research Centre and serves as an Australian Research Council Future Fellow (Level 3). He previously held a full professorship at the University of Technology Sydney from 2009 to 2023 and was the founding director of its Advanced Analytics Institute from 2011 to 2014. Cao possesses dual PhDs, one in Pattern Recognition and Intelligent Systems from the Graduate University of Chinese Academy of Sciences and another in Computing Science from the University of Technology Sydney, along with an MSc in Communication and a Bachelor's degree in Electrical Engineering. His career includes extensive experience as a Chief Technology Officer, developing actionable AI and data science solutions for sectors such as government, finance, health, and telecommunications through collaborations with entities including the Australian Taxation Office, Commonwealth Bank, and Shanghai Stock Exchange.

Cao's research focuses on artificial intelligence, data science, advanced analytics, intelligent systems encompassing humanoid AI, machine learning from shallow to deep paradigms, behavior informatics, applied statistics, and enterprise innovation. Since 2005, he has produced over 400 publications, featuring sole- and first-authored monographs like "Data Science Thinking: The Next Scientific, Technological and Economic Revolution" (2018) and "Global COVID-19 Research and Modeling: A Historical Record" (2024), alongside numerous journal articles. His contributions have earned the 2019 Eureka Prize for Excellence in Data Science and the ACM Distinguished Scientist title in 2019. Cao has shaped the field through editorial leadership as Founding Editor-in-Chief of the International Journal of Data Science and Analytics, Series Editor for Springer's Data Analytics books, and former Editor-in-Chief of IEEE Intelligent Systems. He pioneered Australia's first Big Data Summit in 2009, chaired KDD 2015, and established the IEEE International Conference on Data Science and Advanced Analytics, relevant IEEE task forces, and the ACM SIGKDD Australia-New Zealand chapter.