Data Science Lab

Here are some of the funded projects for research and industry innovations.

Deep Interaction Learning in Unlabelled Big Data and Complex Systems
Australian Research Council Future Fellowships – (FT190100734), Jun 2020 – May 2024
Cao L

PhD Scholarship on Cross-market Analytics
Capital Markets Cooperative Research Centre, Rozetta Institute, Jul 2019 – Dec 2024
Cao L

Deep Analytics of Non-occurring but Important Behaviours
Australian Research Council Discovery Projects – (DP190101079), Jun 2019 – Jun 2023
Cao L, Kumar V

Data Science Innovation – Customer Representations and Chatbot
Commonwealth Bank of Australia, Dec 2018 – Jun 2019
Cao L

Smart Beaches Project, Australian Government’s Smart Cities and Suburbs Program
Department of Infrastructure, Transport, Regional Development and Local Government, Nov 2018 – Jun 2020
Zeichner F, Cao L, Beydoun G, White S, Harvard H, Brun J

IP Australia Machine learning research
IP Australia, Dec 2017 – Jun 2018
Cao L

ASIC Executive Analytics Workshop
Australian Securities and Investment Commission, Jun 2017 – Sep 2017
Cao L

Active Management of Complex Non-self finalising Behaviours through Deep Analytics
Australian Research Council Linkage Projects – (LP140100937), Aug 2015 – Aug 2018
Cao L, Xu G, Flynn M, Issar G, King K, Liu H

Analytics for Client Engagement
Australian Taxation Office, Mar 2015 – Jun 2016
Cao L, Liu X, Wei W, Yin J, Ou Y

Detection and Intervention of Adverse Behaviours based on Immigration Transaction Data and Social Media
University of Technology Sydney, Jan 2015 – Dec 2018
Cao L

Coupling Learning in Big Data
Australian Research Council
Cao L, Yu P, Gaussier E

Active Management of Complex Non-self-finalising Behaviours through Deep Analytics
Australian Taxation Office, Jul 2014 – Jun 2017
Cao L

Joint Sino-Australian Research Institute on Big Data Industry
University of Technology Sydney, Jul 2014 – Jun 2018
Cao L

The identification of ‘Blackspots’ across Australia
Insurance Australia Group (IAG), Mar 2014 – Apr 2014
Cao L

Self-finalising Lodgement Analytical Model
Australian Taxation Office, Jan 2014 – Dec 2014
Cao L

Collaboration with IIT to Build a Research Network for Big Data Analytics
Department of Foreign Affairs and Trade – Australia-India Council, Jan 2014 – Dec 2015
Cao L, Vaidehi V, Xu G, Ramamurthi B, Nagarajan R, Reddy K, Khatri SK

Collaboration with Shanghai Jiaotong University and other partners to build a Research Network for Big Data Analytics
Department of Innovation, Industry, Science and Research -Australia-China Science and Research Fund, Nov 2013 – Mar 2014
Cao L, Zhang J, Xu G

DIBP Data Mining/Analytics PhD Scholarships
Department of Immigration and Border Protection, Oct 2013 – Aug 2015
Cao L

Data Mining Customer Satisfaction
Microsoft Pty Ltd, Sep 2013 – Sep 2014
Cao L

Review NSW Government’s Expenditure Data Cube (EDC) structure and product NSW Procurement
NSW Department of Finance and Services, Sep 2013 – Oct 2013
Cao L

Data Mining of Learning Behaviours and Interactions for Improved Academic Sentiment and Performance Transfer
Office for Learning & Teaching (Department of Education and Training) – Innovation and Development Grant Programme, Jun 2013 – Oct 2015
Cao L, Li J, Dharmendra S

ATO Debt Collection Optimisation
Australian Taxation Office, May 2013 – Nov 2013
Cao L

Debt Collection Optimisation
Australian Taxation Office, May 2013 – May 2014
Cao L

Modelling and Discovering Complex Interaction Relations Hidden in Group Behaviours in Businesses, Online and Social Communities
Australian Research Council – Discovery Projects – (DP130102691), Jan 2013 – Dec 2016
Cao L, Yu P, Weiss G

PAKDD 2013: The 17th Pacific Asia Conference on Knowledge Discovery and Data Mining
Asian Office of Aerospace Research and Development, Nov 2012 – Apr 2013
Cao L

Sponsorship to AAI and FEIT for Student Research
SAS Institute Australia Pty Ltd, May 2012 – May 2015
Cao L

Effective Profiling and Detection of At-Risk Taxpayers to Strengthen ATO Compliance
University of Technology Sydney – ATO, Mar 2012 – Mar 2014
Cao L

Mining Complex Concurrency Relationship Patterns for Dynamic Customer/Asset Interaction Modeling through Novel Industrial Behavior Networks
Australian Research Council – Linkage Projects – (LP120100566), Jan 2012 – May 2015
Zhang C, Cao L, Chen L, Wisener D, Halloran D

Yanhuang Science and Technology Park
Yanhuang Sicnece and Technology Park Construction co Ltd., Aug 2011 – Oct 2011
Cao L

Online declaration modeling pilot project
University of Technology Sydney – Centralink, Nov 2010 – Nov 2012
Zhang C, He X, Luo D, Cao L, Bohlscheid H-M, Zhang H, Newbigin P

Detecting Significant Changes in Organisation-Customer Interactions Leading to Non-Compliance
Australian Research Council – Linkage Projects – (LP100200774), Nov 2010 – Jun 2014
Cao L, Zhu X, Zhang C, Bohlscheid H-M, Zhang H, Barclay B, Zhao Y, Newbigin P

Pilot Data Mining: Mining Discriminative Patterns Showing Significant Behavioural Difference between Lapse & Active Customers
AMP Services Limited, Nov 2010 – Jan 2011
Cao L

Cheque Fraud Detection Project
Westpac Banking Corporation, May 2010 – Jul 2010
Cao L

Centrelink Fraud Investigation: Opportunities and Test
Centrelink, Mar 2010 – Dec 2010
Cao L

Pattern Discovery of Discriminating Behaviour Associated with Hidden Communities
Australian Research Council – Discovery Projects – (DP1096218), Mar 2010 – Dec 2013
Cao L, Yu P

Pattern Analysis and Risk Control of E-Commerce Transactions to Secure Online Payments
Australian Research Council – Linkage Projects – (LP0989721R1), Jan 2010 – Nov 2012
Cao L, Zhang C, Young B

Data Mining Driven, Deep Understanding of Interventions for Improving Compliance
University of Technology Sydney – Centrelink, Jun 2009 – Jun 2012
Cao L

Discovering Activity Patterns Driven by High Impacts in Heterogeneous and Imbalanced Data
Australian Research Council – Discovery Projects – (DP0988016), Feb 2009 – Dec 2011
Cao L, Zhang C

Efficient Mining of Negative Sequential Patterns
University of Technology Sydney, Jan 2009 – Dec 2010
Cao L, Zhao Y, Ni J

Health Insurance Fraud Control and Pattern Analysis – Capital Markets CRC Scholarship
Capital Markets Cooperative Research Centre, Aug 2008 – Aug 2011
Cao L

Risk Analysis and Control on E-Commerce Transactions
University of Technology Sydney, Aug 2008 – Aug 2010
Cao L, Zhang C, Wang W, Conder A

Combined Association Rule Mining
University of Technology Sydney, Jan 2008 – Dec 2009
Cao L, Zhao Y

Smart Image Searching: Multi-Category Object Detection
University of Technology Sydney, Jan 2008 – Dec 2009
Zhang H, Cao L

Domain-Driven Actionable Link Discovery
Australian Research Council – Discovery Projects – (DP0773412), Feb 2007 – Jun 2010
Cao L

Data Mining of Activity Transactions to Strengthen Debt Prevention
Australian Research Council – Linkage Projects – (LP0775041R1), Jan 2007 – Dec 2009
Cao L, Zhang C, Zhao Y, Browne M, Morrow Y, Schurmann R, Newbigin P, Figueiredo F

Efficient Techniques for Mining Exceptional Patterns
Australian Research Council – Discovery Projects – (DP0667060), Feb 2006 – Dec 2009
Zhang C, Cao L

Provision of Income Reporting Data Analysis Services
Centrelink, Feb 2006 – May 2006
Cao L, Zhang C, Zhao Y, Ni J, Chen J

Self-Organizing Relational Link Discovery in Mixed Data Types for Compliance
University of Technology Sydney, Jan 2006 – Dec 2007
Cao L

Integration of multi-agent systems and data mining in financial markets
University of Technology Sydney – UTS Chancellor’s Research Fellowship, Jun 2005 – May 2008
Cao L