Dr Yong-Bin Kang

Biography

Yong-Bin Kang is a senior data science research fellow for the ARC Centre of Excellence for Automated Decision Making and Society (ADM+S) at Swinburne University of Technology. In his analytical and intellectual pursuits, he is highly interested in exploring real-life problems across various domains (law, finance, education, mental health, humanity, patent, etc), uncovering hidden insights and utilising AI to boost decision-making. His expertise is primarily focused on knowledge discovery, predictive modelling and decision-making optimisation by leveraging advanced natural language processing, machine learning, and AI techniques. Recently, his research has focused more on developing, managing, and delivering algorithms and solutions that improve open, ethical, and trustworthy AI analytics practices for the social good. Specifically, he has been leading large research and industry projects that operationalise and advance responsible, trustworthy data analysis to better support public welfare, community mental health, and humanitarian action by integrating data-driven and human-centred decision-making approaches. Further, he has extensive experience in complex data analysis for a wide range of industrial projects, such as technical trajectory identification from patents, corrosion detection from drone images, analysis for environmental impact on disease symptoms, and expert finding and matching from large text and social media data.
He was awarded a PhD from Monash University and was a core member of Swinburne’s Data Science Research Institute. His research excellence is demonstrated by publications in Information Systems journal, IEEE Transactions on Knowledge and Data Engineering, Data Mining and Knowledge Discovery, WIREs data mining and knowledge discovery, JMIR, IEEE Transactions on Cybernetics, Expert Systems with Applications, etc. Some representative A/A* conference papers include Association for the Advancement of Artificial Intelligence (AAAI), Association for Computational Linguistics (ACL), European Conference on Artificial Intelligence (ECAI), International Semantic Web Conference (ISWC), ACM International Conference on Information and Knowledge Management (CIKM), and International Conference on Knowledge Capture (K-CAP).