He enjoys a wide international reputation in the areas of Data Science, Machine Learning, and their applications to wide domains such as Manufacture, Health and Business Intelligence.

His role in this project, he will lead Data Science and AI solution development for the entire effort of this hub project. He has been involved in 8 CASG and E&IG Testbed development in the last 6 years and is committed to the project life cycle.

His capability is demonstrated by his expertise in areas of knowledge engineering, object component-based conceptual modelling and design resulted in several innovative publications in these areas. He has published over 750 papers as book chapters in international and national journals (168) and refereed conference proceedings, written 9 books and edited 5 other books and published over 35 chapters in edited books. He also has wide administration experience being a foundation Professor in Computer Science and Engineering and the Dean of Faculty of Information Technology at the University of Technology Sydney (UTS). He has been an Editor-in-Chief of two international journals, namely the International Journal of Computer Systems Science and Engineering and International Journal of Engineering Intelligent Systems, and an Advisory Editor of the IEEE Transactions on Neural Networks in the USA. He is a Chair of several international technical committees and working groups including IFIP WG on Computational Intelligence.