Dr. Xiaohui Tao, PhD
Professor Dr. Xiaohui Tao holds a distinguished position at the University of Southern Queensland's (UniSQ) School of Mathematics, Physics, and Computing in Australia. He is the Computing Discipline Team Leader, and presides as the Chair of the ICT Programs’ Governance and Leadership Committee at UniSQ. Before assuming these pivotal roles, from 2016 to 2021, he provided esteemed leadership as the Director of various academic programs, including the Master of Data Science, Master of Information Technology, and Master of Science at UniSQ.
An esteemed scholar in Artificial Intelligence, Dr. Tao's research encompasses a wide spectrum, including but not limited to data analytics, machine learning, knowledge engineering, natural language processing, and health informatics. His academic contributions are well-recognized with over 200 publications in eminent journals such as TKDE, TOIS, TIST, INFFUS, IPM, and notable conferences including AAAI, IJCAI, SIGIR, EMNLP, ICDE, and CIKM. Beyond individual research, he spearheads a prominent research group that prioritizes innovative algorithms and systems with significant real-world applications. Additionally, he has exhibited exceptional mentorship, having successfully supervised ten doctoral candidates to completion.
Dr. Tao's contributions to the academic community have been acknowledged with prestigious awards like the Australia Research Council Grant and the Australian Endeavour Research Fellowship, as well as recognition from international conferences, namely DSinS'23, ACMHN’22, BESC’22, BI’21, WI-IAT’20, and WISE'20 and '19.
A Senior Member of both the IEEE and ACM professional bodies, Dr. Tao also contributes as the Deputy Chair of the IEEE Technical Committee on Intelligent Informatics (TCII). His editorial endeavours include serving as the Editor-in-Chief for Elsevier's Natural Language Processing Journal, the TCII Bulletin, and Web Intelligence (CCF C). He has further enhanced his profile by serving in key roles in conferences such as WI-IAT and BESC, and more.
Dr. Tao concluded his PhD in Information Technology from the Queensland University of Technology, Australia, in 2009.
Funding and Grants
- AI-Powered Multimodal Patient Progressive Profiles for Personalized Repetitive Transcranial Magnetic Stimulation Depression Treatment, Healthy Longevity Catalyst Awards (Hong Kong), Research Grants Council, Hong Kong, 2023, HK$389,000
- Learning and Teaching Grant (Category 1: Innovative assessment), University of Southern Queensland 2023, $9975
- Finding the right fit: Using Artificial Intelligence to assist with recruitment, selection, and retention of health workers at a regional public health service, Queensland Health (Darling Down), 2022–2023, $15,000
- Privacy Preservation over 5G and IoT Smart Devices, Australian Research Council (ARC) Discovery Project (DP220101360), 2022-2024, $347,183
- Exploring the efficacy of Transcranial Magnetic Stimulation for the Treatment of Depression, Belmont Private Hospital and Cannan Institute, 2020-2023, $40,000
- Remote patient monitoring via non-invasive digital technology: a preliminary evaluation of a system for respiratory observations, Queensland Health (Brisbane), 2019-2020, $10,000
- Text Classification for User Background Knowledge Discovery in Personalized Systems, Endeavour Research Fellowship (ERF_PDR_120934 2014), Australian Government Department of Education, 2015-2016, $25,000
- The COST (Cooperation in Science and Technology) Action Program, Australian Academy of Science, 2012, $2,400
Honours and Awards
- Best paper and Consumers Choice Award, “A Non-touch approach using artificial intelligence to assist nursing intermittent visual observations”, T. Shaik, X. Tao, N. Higgins, R. Gururajan, and X. Zhou, the 6th Queensland Health Clinical Excellence Showcase “Learn - Partner - Innovate”, Brisbane, 23-24th May 2023
- HDR Student Publication Excellence Award, “A Novel Genetic Algorithm Based System for the Scheduling of Medical Treatments”, M. Squires, X. Tao, S. Elangovan, R. Gururajan, X. Zhou and U R. Acharya, Expert Systems With Applications, granted by University of Southern Queensland, 2023.
- School Research Performance Award, School of Mathematics, Physics and Computing, University of Southern Queensland, 2023
- Best Paper in a General Category and General Award, “A Non-touch Approach using Artificial Intelligence to Assist Nursing Intermittent Visual Observations”, T. Shaik, N. Higgins, R. Gururajan, and X. Zhou, the 46th International Mental Health Nursing Conference, Gold Coast, 9 September 2022.
- Best Student Paper Award Runner-up, “A Secured Movie Recommendation System using Decentralized Blockchain Network”, T. A. Abduljabbar, X. Tao, J. Zhang, and X. Zhou, the 9th International Conference on Behavioral and Social Computing (BESC’22), Matsuyama University, Japan, 29–31 October 2022.
- Research Performance Award, School of Mathematics, Physics and Computing, University of Southern Queensland, 2022
- Discipline Research Performance Improvement Award, School of Mathematics, Physics and Computing, University of Southern Queensland, 2022
- Best Student Paper Award, “Exploring the Brain Information Processing Mechanisms from Functional Connectivity to Translational Applications”, H. Kuai, J. Chen, X. Tao, K. Imamura, P. Liang and N. Zhong, the 14th International Conference on Brain Informatics (BI 2021), online 2021
- Best Research Paper Award, “EmoChannelAttn: Exploring Emotional Construction Towards Multi-Class Emotion Classification”, Z. Li, X. Chen, H. Xie, Q. Li, and X. Tao, Web Intelligence and Intelligent Agent Technology (WI-IAT 2020), virtual conference, 2020
- Best Student Paper Award, "A Densely Connected Encoder Stack Approach for Multi-type Legal Machine Reading Comprehension”, P. Nai, L. Li, and X. Tao, the 21st International Conference on Web Information Systems Engineering (WISE 2020), Amsterdam Netherland, 20-24 Oct 2020.
- Unit-Specific Publication Excellence Award, F. Nabi, J. Yong, and X. Tao, USQ, 2020
- Best Paper Runner-up Award, “Learning Relational Fractals For Deep Knowledge Graph Embedding In Online Social Networks”, J. Zhang, L. Tan, X. Tao, D. Wang, J. J.-C. Ying and X. Wang, the 20th International Conference on Web Information Systems Engineering (WISE 2019) 19-22 January 2020, Hong Kong (and Macau), China 2019
- WIC Outstanding Service Award, Web Intelligence Consortium, the 2018 IEEE/WIC/ACM International Conference on Web Intelligence, Santiago de Chile, Chile, 2018
- USQ Publication Excellence Award, W. P. Goh, X. Tao, J. Yong, and J. Zhang, 2016.
- USQ School-Specific Publication Excellent Award (1st Place), W. P. Goh, X. Tao, J. Yong, and J. Zhang, 2016.
- Head of Department Research Award, Dept. Maths & Computing, Faculty of Sciences, USQ, 2012
