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