Career and Grants

Research Interests

• Causal modelling

• Explainable AI

• Machine learning and Artificial Intelligence

Research Grants/Projects

• 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.

Work History

• July 2023 to present
  Principal Research Scientist, Data61, CSIRO

• September 2017 to June 2023
  Senior Research Scientist, Data61, CSIRO

• 2015 to 2021
  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