Dr Weitong Chen

Dr Weitong Chen
 Position Lecturer
 Org Unit Computer Science
 Email weitong.chen@adelaide.edu.au
 Telephone +61 8 8313 0676
 Location Floor/Room 4.45 ,  Ingkarni Wardli ,   North Terrace
  • Biography/ Background

    Dr. Tony Weitong Chen is an ARC EC Industry Fellow, a senior lecturer at the University of Adelaide (UoA) and a researcher at the Australian Institute for Machine Learning (AIML), having previously served as an Associate Lecturer and Post-Doc Research Fellow at the University of Queensland. He earned his PhD from the University of Queensland in 2020, after completing both his Master's and Bachelor's degrees at the University of Queensland and at Griffith University respectively. His research primarily focuses on machine learning, with a special interest in its application to medical data. Dr. Chen is known for his extensive collaborative efforts with professionals in academia, industry, government, and professional bodies, and various internal and external grants have supported his research.

  • Qualifications

    Ph.D. of Computer Science

    The University of Queensland

    Australia

    2017 - 2020

    Master of Computer Science

    The University of Queensland

    Australia

    2011 - 2013

    Bachelor of Information System

    Griffith University

    Australia

    2009 - 2011

  • Awards & Achievements

    2023 

    Early Career Research Excellence Award, The University of Adelaide

    Australia

    2023 

    Outstanding Service Award, The 36th Australasian Joint Conference on Artificial Intelligence

    Australia

    2022 

    Best Student Paper Award, APWEB-WAIM 2022

    China

    2022 

    Best Poster Award, The 34th Australasian Joint Conference on Artificial Intelligence

    Australia

    2021 

    Best Presentation Award, 17th International Conference on Advanced Data Mining and Applications

    Australia

    2021 

    Best Paper - Highly Commended Award, Australasian Computer Science Week Multiconference

    New Zealand

    2019 

    Best Student Paper Award, 15th nternational Conference on Advanced Data Mining and Applications

    China

    2018 

    Student Travel Grant, International Conference on Data Mining 2018

    Singapore

    2016 

    Outstanding Service Award, 12th International Conference on Advanced Data Mining and Applications

    Australia

    2014 

    1st Place, Premier‘s Awards for Open Data

    Australia

    2014 

    1st Place, Microsoft Startup Q Award for Open Data

    Australia        

  • Research Funding

    ·       ARC ECR Industry Fellowship 2024 - 2026 Future of Work: Achieving Efficiency and Productivity through Optimisation (ARC & SA PAthology)

    ·       ARC LP - Principal Investigator 2025 - 2027 Advanced Data Analytics for Cost-effective Mushroom Cultivation (ARC & CLEVER MUSHROOMS PTY LTD; PIXELFORCE SYSTEMS PTY LTD; HOKKEN CO., LTD)

    ·       ARC DP - Principal Investigator 2024 - 2026 Towards knowledge discovery from imperfect and evolving data (ARC)

    ·       UoA Sustainability FAME Strategy  Grant 2023 - Investigator 2023 - 2023 Sustainable Warriors or Marketing Mirage? (UoA)

    ·       UoA CMS Research Grants 2023 - 2023 

    ·       ANA Partnership Fund- Principal Investigator 2023 - 2023 AID-MI: Artificial Intelligence Based Diagnosis Using Multimodal Information For Cardiopulmonary Disease (UoA & UoN)

    ·       UoA START-UP GRANT - Principal Investigator 2022 - 2024 

    ·       UQ AI-ECR Research Fund - Principal Investigator 2022 - 2022 Towards Positive Emotion: Artificial Intelligence-Based Expression Rephrasing (UQ) 

    ·       UQ Cyber Security Seed Fund - Principal Investigator 2022 - 2022 Collaborated Learning with Medical Data Making High-Stake Decision Without Information Leakage (UQ & RBWH) 

    ·       UQ AI Initiative - Investigator 2021 - 2022 AI Monitored ICU Illness Severity Prediction (UQ & RBWH)

    ·       ITEE Research Support Fund - Principal Investigator 2021 - 2021   Multi-Task Memory-Fused RNNs for Explainable Illness Severity Prediction (UQ)

  • Professional Interests

    Machine Learning    Weakly Supervised Learning, Deep Learning, Multi-task Learning, Collaborative Learning

    Data Analytics          Data Analytics, Medical Knowledge Graph Mining, Sentiment Analysis on Socia Media

  • Community Engagement

    Early to Mid-Career Researchers Representative at SAT UoA

    Early to Mid-Career Researchers Representative at UQ

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Entry last updated: Friday, 20 Sep 2024

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