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Dr Mingzhong Wang

Dr Mingzhong Wang

Senior Lecturer in Computer Science

School of Science, Technology and Engineering

Email: mwang@usc.edu.au

Telephone: +61 7 5456 5295

Location: Moreton Bay, MB-MBA1-1-1.112

Dr Wang is a Senior Lecturer in Computer Science at UniSC. His research focuses on machine learning, with particular expertise in deep representation learning, knowledge graphs, and reinforcement learning. His work spans learning robust state representations from visual observations, differentiable planning in spatially variant environments, network embedding with generative adversarial approaches, time-series forecasting, POI recommendations, and medication recommendations. He is also actively involved in applied research on mobile computing, IoT/IoV systems, and telepresence robotics, including IoT-enabled stroke rehabilitation using smart wearable devices and machine learning, which has practical applications in health, aged care, and assistive technologies.

Dr Wang previously worked as a Lecturer at the Beijing Institute of Technology before joining UniSC in 2015. He holds a PhD from the University of Melbourne. His research has been published in top-tier AI venues including AAAI, IJCAI, and KDD, as well as leading journals such as IEEE TNNLS and ACM TOIS. His team received the Best Paper Award — Runner-Up at the 2024 IEEE Conference on Artificial Intelligence (CAI).

Dr Wang is committed to delivering engaging, student-centred education. He actively supervises Higher Degree by Research (HDR) students and welcomes enquiries from motivated candidates interested in machine learning, mobile and smart computing, and IoT/IoV.

 

 

Research

Research Summary

Identifiers

Potential research projects for HDR and Honours students

  • Machine learning
  • Analysis and mining of mobile data

Research grants

Project name Investigators Funding body Year Focus
Cloud-based Long-lived and Instance-intensive Workflow Management System Mingzhong Wang, CI Chinese National Science Foundation (A$44,000)  2012–2014 Management of large scale workflows in cloud and service environments

Service Component Architecture-based Business Management System

Mingzhong Wang, CI

China Electronics Technology Group Corporation

2013

Design and implementation of business management systems with

Service Component Architecture

 

Teaching and supervision

Teaching

  • Data Management and Analysis
  • Programming
  • Machine Learning

Program coordinator

Professional

Awards and memberships

Professional memberships

  • ACM
  • IEEE
  • CCF

Awards

  • Best Paper Award — Runner-Up, 2024, IEEE Conference on Artificial Intelligence (CAI)
  • Best Paper Award, 2013, 32nd International Performance Computing and Communications Conference (IPCCC 2013).
  • 1st Prize, 2012, (China) National Undergraduate Information Security Contest.
  • Faculty Advisor Award, 2012, (China) National Undergraduate Information Security Contest.
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Dr Mingzhong Wang’s specialist areas of knowledge include machine learning in general and knowledge graphs and deep reinforcement learning in specific. He is also interested in mobile computing and telepresence robots.

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