• Data mining with R
• Application of data mining and analytics
• Data mining algorithms

• ARC Linkage Project on Detecting Significant Changes in Organisation Customer Interactions Leading to Non-Compliance.
  L.Cao, X. Zhu, C. Zhang, H. Bohlscheid, H. Zhang, B. Clark, Y. Zhao, P. Newbigin, 2010-2013.
• ARC Linkage Project (LP0775041) on Data Mining of Activity Transactions to Strengthen Debt Prevention.
  C. Zhang, L. Cao, M. Browne, Y. Morrow, R. Schurmann, P. Newbigin, F. Figueiredo and Y. Zhao, $469,000, 2007-2009.
• UTS ECRG (Early Career Researcher Grant) project on Efficient Mining of Negative Sequential Patterns.
  Y. Zhao, $24,941, 2009-2010.
• UTS ECRG (Early Career Researcher Grant) project on Combined Association Rule Mining.
  Y. Zhao and H. Zhang, $25,000, 2008-2009.

• September 2017 to present
  Senior Research Scientist, Data61, CSIRO
• November 2015 to present
  Adjunct Professor, University of Canberra
• March to September 2017
  Data Analytics Lead, IBM Australia
• November 2011 to February 2017
  Senior Data Scientist, Department of Immigration and Border Protection, Australia
• May 2009 to November 2011
  Senior Data Mining Specialist, Department of Human Services, Australia
• January 2007 to November 2009
  Australian Postdoctoral Fellow (Industry), University of Technology, Sydney, Australia

Fellowship

• Australian Postdoctoral Fellowship (Industry), 2007-2009.

• Senior Member of the IEEE
• Member of the Canberra Data Scientists Meetup Group