Career and Grants
Research Interests
Data mining with R
Application of data mining and analytics
Data mining algorithms
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
September 2017 to present
Senior Research Scientist, Data61, CSIRONovember 2015 to present
Adjunct Professor, University of CanberraMarch to September 2017
Data Analytics Lead, IBM AustraliaNovember 2011 to February 2017
Senior Data Scientist, Department of Immigration and Border Protection, AustraliaMay 2009 to November 2011
Senior Data Mining Specialist, Department of Human Services, AustraliaJanuary 2007 to November 2009
Australian Postdoctoral Fellow (Industry), University of Technology, Sydney, Australia