Our people

Babak is Head of the Department of Actuarial Studies and Business Analytics. His research is inspired by problems in practice and is rooted in behavioural and managerial theories.

Research interests

• Catastrophe insurance modelling
  
• Financial/insurance derivatives pricing
• Applications of stochastic processes to emerging risks
• Intensity-based modelling
• Compound point processes

Dr Yin Liao is an Associate Professor in Finance and Research Director at Department of Applied Finance. She joined Macquarie University from July, 2019. Prior to that, she held positions at the Australian National University and Queensland University of Technology.

Research interests

• Household Finance
• Sustainable Finance
• AI and Fintech
• Financial Econometrics
• Time Series Analysis

Research interests

• Forecasting
• Predictive Analytics
• Econometrics
• Time Series Analysis
• Machine Learning
• Real Estate
• Cryptocurrency Markets

Dr Zheyao (Terry) Pan joined Department of Applied Finance at Macquarie University from December, 2017. Prior to that, he was a Lecturer at the University of Otago.

Research interests

• Corporate Finance
• Financial Modelling and Forecasting
• Machine Learning and Textual Analysis
• Risk Management and Derivatives

Research interests

• Functional data analysis 
• Nonparametric and semiparametric statistics 
• Bayesian econometrics  
• Computational statistics 
• Demographic forecasting 

Dr Shuping Shi is a Professor at Macquarie University. Shi is an econometrician with a theoretically grounded and policy-relevant research agenda in the field of Financial Econometrics and Applied Economics.

Research interests

• Financial Econometrics
  • High frequency financial data
  • Financial bubble detection
• Time Series Analysis
  • Granger causality test
  • Explosive processes
  • Long memory process
  • Forecasting
• Applied Economics

Abhay Singh, an Associate Professor in applied finance and Director of the Centre for Corporate Sustainability & Environmental Finance, specializes in Financial Risk Modeling, Investment Analysis, and Asset Pricing.

Research interests

• Financial Data Science
• Data Analytics & Machine Learning
• Text mining, Social Media Analytics
• Time Series Econometrics
• Multivariate Dependence & Risk Modelling
• Applied Statistics and Financial Risk Modelling

Research interests

• Mathematical finance
  
• Actuarial science
• Quantitative risk management
• Applications of stochastic processes and calculus
• Applications of stochastic filtering and control
• Probability and statistics 

Leonie is Deputy Dean Research and Innovation of the Macquarie Business School and Professor in Actuarial Studies. Her research in longevity modelling and forecasting is at the forefront of new developments in the area.

Dr Colin Zhang holds a Bachelor of Commerce (Actuarial Studies), a Bachelor of Commerce (First class Honours in Actuarial studies) as well as a Degree of Doctor of Philosophy (Applied Finance and Actuarial Studies) from Macquarie University.

Research interests

• Data Analytics
• Machine Learning
• Actuarial modelling
• Optimal strategy
• Life cycle modelling

Carolyn is a senior lecturer in the area of public law, with a focus on human rights and open government. She regularly provides expert advice on privacy and the handling of personal information to government and non-government organisations.

Malcolm is a professor of History and Head of the Department of History and Archaeology. His current research interests centre on discourses of authenticity, debates over cultural heritage, and the reception of the ancient world. 

Jessica does research on how humans, more-than-humans, environments and technologies interact to produce geographies of change. Her research focuses on digital technologies, water politics, climate action and activism.

Richard is a developer of artificial intelligence and robotics, using music and creativity as a medium to program better interactions, understandings and models.

Daniela is an intellectual property law scholar with a special interest in copyright law and the challenges of the digital age.

Research interest

• Law and Technology
• Intellectual Property law (especially copyright law)
• Authorship and Collaboration
• Artificial Intelligence
• Data protection and regulation
• International legal regimes

Rachel Yuen-Collingridge is an Associate Lecturer in the Department of History and Archaeology. She researches and teaches across the ancient and the modern world.

Research interests

• Forgery
• Papyrology
• Cultural Heritage
• Knowledge technologies
• History of humanities practices

Professor Bamini Gopinath is the inaugural Cochlear Chair in Hearing and Health. In this role she leads the Public Health and Policy Pillar of MU Hearing.

Research interests

• Epidemiology
• Public Health
• Sensory Loss
• Health Services
• Translational Research

Dr Liu is a Senior Research Fellow at the Centre for Health Informatics, Australian Institute of Health Innovation (AIHI), Macquarie University. He established and is currently leading the Translational AI for Healthcare Research Stream at AIHI.

Research interests

• Medical Imaging
• Machine Learning
• Healthcare AI
• Computational Neuroscience

Michael is associate professor and director of the Phonetics Labs in the Department of Linguistics, and Deputy Director of the Centre for Language Sciences.

Research interests

• Linguistic Data Analysis
• Speech Science
• Signal Processing
• Image Processing
• Data Management
• Computational Modelling
• Language Analysis

Professor Helen Rizos is a cancer cell and molecular biologist with a focus on cancer cell signalling, response and resistance of melanoma to targeted and immunotherapies and predictive liquid biopsy markers.

Research interests

• Data Analytics
• Cell and Molecular Biology
• Personalised medicine
• Liquid biopsies
• Cancer Management

Kelly also leads the Genomics & Bioinformatics Research Group within the Motor Neuron Disease research centre. 

Rouzbeh has adjunct professor positions with the University of Tasmania and Memorial University of Newfoundland. He is a recognized researcher in the field of risk and safety engineering.

Research interests

• Reliability engineering
  
• Quantitative risk assessment
• Safety engineering
• Environmental modeling
• Engineering applications of AI

Dr Xuhui Fan is a lecturer in Artificial Intelligence in the School of Computing. He has more than 10 years of experience working in machine learning and artificial intelligence. His current research focus is Generative AI and AI with multi-modalities.

Research interests

• Generative AI
• Multi-Modality AI
• AI applications to agriculture and disaster management

Yimeng is a Lecturer in Computing. She is passionate about applying her research findings to solve real-world problems such as smart cities, healthcare, law and finance.

Research interests

• Behaviour Data Analytics
• IT Law
• Internet of Things
• Machine Learning

Ningning is a Lecturer in IoT & Networking in the School of Computing. She is interested in Artificial Intelligence of Things (AIoT) , Low-Power Wide Area Networks (LPWANs), edge computing, wireless networking, security and privacy.

Research interests

• Artificial Intelligence of Things (AIoT)
• LoRa and LPWANs
• Wireless Networking
• Cyber Security

Young is a researcher and a senior lecturer in School of Computing. He has expertise and extensive experience in distributed systems research evidenced by his work on efficient algorithms and systems for scheduling and resource management in parallel and distributed computing systems, such as multi-processor computer clusters and cloud data centres.

Research interests

• Distributed systems   
• Data-intensive computing
• High performance computing 

Benoit is a professor and research lead in statistics. His research has involved tight coupling between applied statistics and statistical theory.

Research interests

• Feature extraction and model selection
  
• Machine learning
• High-dimensional data analysis
• Analysis of complex data structure, including biomedical data and environmental data 
• Computational statistical methods: Bayesian and Frequentist 

Dr Guanfeng Liu is currently a Senior Lecturer (A/Prof. in North American) in the School of Computing. His research interests include graph databases, trust computing, and social computing.

Research interests

• Data Analytics
• Graph Data Management
• Machine Learning
• Trust Computing

Bernard was selected as the INRIA-Hitachi Chair in 2003 and is Director of the Centre for Advanced Computing Algorithms and Cryptography (ACAC).

Research interests

• Dynamic graphs and networks
  
• Graph theory and algorithms
• Human mobility and pandemic modelling
• functional graphs on finite fields 

Diego Molla-Aliod is a senior lecturer in the School of Computing. He is a founder and current executive member of the Australasian Language Technology Association.

Research interests

• Natural Language Processing
• Machine Learning
• Text Summarisation
• Question Answering Systems

Samuel is a professor of Statistics, Head of the School of Mathematical and Physical Sciences and a Fellow of the American Statistical Association.

Research interests

• Statistical model building
• Variable selection in complex statistical models
  
• High-dimensional data analysis
  
• Statistical modelling for health data
  
• Prediction with multimodal data 
  

Usman is a lecturer at the School of Computing. He is interested in natural language processing, multimodal content analysis, social computing, and AI for social good. His focus areas include language modelling, cyber informatics, online opinion and sarcasm mining, responsible code-mixed & low-resource language processing, and health/medical informatics.

Research interests

• Natural Language Processing
• Multimodal Analysis
• Machine Learning
• Social Computing
• AI for Social Good
• Health/Medical Informatics

Mehmet Orgun is a professor in the School of Computing. He has supervised 36 completed PhD students, 8 completed Masters students as both principal and associate supervisor.

Research interests

• Artificial Intelligence
• Knowledge Representation
• Biomedical Image Processing
• Multi-agent Systems
• Trusted & Secure Systems

Dr Yuankai Qi is a Lecturer in Artificial Intelligence (AI). He joined the School of Computing in December 2023. Before this, he worked at The University of Adelaide as a research fellow for five years. He received the honor Australian Pattern Recognition Society (APRS) ECR Award Honourable Mention 2023, and CAAI Outstanding Doctoral Dissertations, China.

Research interests

• Vision-and-Language Action for Robots
• Crowd Counting
• Video Anomaly Detection
• Video Captioning
• Movie Dubbing

Georgy Sofronov received the PhD degree in Statistics from Moscow State University in 2002. He has held academic positions at universities in Russia and Australia including the University of Queensland and the University of Wollongong.

Research interests

• Change-point detection
• Optimal decision rules
• Statistical modelling and data analysis
• Computational statistics
• Statistical quality control

Dr Yanqiu (Autumn) Wu is a Lecturer in Artificial Intelligence (AI) in the School of Computing. Her research interests include Markov Decision Processes, off-policy and off-line Deep Reinforcement Learning and Quantum Machine Learning with a focus on Quantum Adversarial Machine Learning.

Research interests

• Machine Learning
• Markov Decision Processes
• Deep Reinforcement Learning
• Quantum Machine Learning

Qiongkai serves as a Lecturer in the School of Computing, engaging in an interdisciplinary domain that spans Privacy & Security, Natural Language Processing, Machine Learning and Data Analysis.

Research interests

• Privacy and Security
• Machine Learning
• Natural Language Processing
• Data Mining

Dr Shan (Emma) Xue is a Lecturer in Computing. She joined the School of Computing in January 2023. Dr Xue received her PhD in Software Engineering from the University of Technology Sydney in 2019, and her PhD in Information Management and Information System from Shanghai University in 2018.

Research interests

• Graph Representation
• Network Analysis
• Web Search
• Data Mining
• Deep Learning

Suk is a postdoc and in a joint position at the Australian Astronomical Optics Data Central.

Research interests

• Data science
  
• Machine learning
  
• Anomaly detection
  
• Object detection
  
• Uncertainty quantification 
  

Yunwei is a Postdoctoral Fellow in the School of Mathematical and Physical Sciences. She completed her PhD at the University of Sydney with her thesis titled "Statistical methods for complex multi-modality kidney disease data".

Research interests

• Statistical machine learning
• Feature selection methods
• Survival analysis
• Bioinformatics
• Graphical visualisation