Wei Zhang

Dr Wei Zhang

Lecturer

School of Computer and Mathematical Sciences

Faculty of Sciences, Engineering and Technology

Eligible to supervise Masters and PhD - email supervisor to discuss availability.


I am currently a Lecturer at the School of Computer Science, The University of Adelaide, and Honorary Lecturer at Department of Computing , Macquarie University. I obtained PhD in 2017 from the School of Computer Science, The University of Adelaide under the supervision of Prof.Michael Sheng and A/Prof. Kerry Taylor (ANU) . I got B.E. from Wuhan University and M.E. from Beihang University in China.

From 2017 to 2019, I was a Postdoctoral Research Fellow at Macquarie University. In 2016, I spent half year as a full-time research intern in IBM Research, Australia . I also have six-year's industry experience as a (senior) software engineer in Nuctech Company Limited and Thomson Reuters .

I am interested in topics in areas including text mining, natural language processing, information retrieval and Internet of Things applications.

My current research relates to three specific areas: i) Adversarial attacks on deep neural models for text; ii) Neural dialogue systems in smart space; and iii) Data analysis for medical data.

I am seeking highly motivated and focused students with backgrounds and interests in Computer Science, Mathematics, and Engineering. For more information, please go to my Web page or email me directly.

My interested areas include text mining, natural language processing, information retrieval and Internet of Things applications, but not limited to. 

My current research relates to three specific areas: 

i) Adversarial attacks on deep neural models for text; 
ii) Neural dialogue systems in smart space; 
iii) Text summarization.

  • 2020-2022, Chief Investigator. What Can You Trust in the Large and Noisy Web? (ARC DP200102298, $390K), funded by the Australian Research Council Discovery Project. With Prof. Michael Sheng (Lead CI), Prof Jan Yang and Prof. Schahram Dustdar.
  • 2018-2019: Key investigator. A Large-Scale Distributed Experimental Facility for the Internet of Things. Funded by the Australian Research Council Linkage Infrastructure, Equipment and Facilities Project (ARC LE180100158, $348K+$300K).
  • 2018-2019: Key investigator. Intelligent Space. Funded by Huawei Innovation Research Program (US$70K).
  • More team projects.

S2 2020: SCI 4094/4194/7094: Distributed Database and Data Mining, Course Coordinator
S2 2020: TECH 1004: Artificial Intelligence Technologies, Course Coordinator
S1 2020: COM SCI 1102SGDE: Object Oriented Programming SGDE, Course Coordinator
S1 2020: COMP SCI 3007: Artificial Intelligence
S2 2019: COMP SCI 3006,3310,3311,3312,3313,7015 Combined: Software Engineering & Project, Course Coordinator
S2 2019: COMP SCI 7209: Big Data Analysis & Project, Course Coordinator

  • Current Higher Degree by Research Supervision (University of Adelaide)

    Date Role Research Topic Program Degree Type Student Load Student Name
    2023 Co-Supervisor Warm-Starting Reinforcement Learning in Complex Environments Doctor of Philosophy Doctorate Part Time Miss Lauren Yvette Taylor
    2022 Co-Supervisor Automating Indoor Construction Progress Monitoring in the Era of Industry 4.0-Integrating Low-Cost Laser Scanning and Computer Vision Doctor of Philosophy Doctorate Full Time Mr Yanquan Zhang
    2021 Co-Supervisor Reducing the impacts of airborne particulate matters from construction sites: Integrating field monitoring and BIM-based CFD Doctor of Philosophy Doctorate Full Time Miss Xingyue Fang
    2021 Principal Supervisor Towards Building Robust Natural Language Processing Models Doctor of Philosophy Doctorate Full Time Mr Haojie Zhuang
    2020 Principal Supervisor Summarising Articles with Deep Neural Networks Doctor of Philosophy Doctorate Full Time Ms Congbo Ma
    2019 Co-Supervisor Unsupervised learning in Natural Language Processing Doctor of Philosophy Doctorate Part Time Mr Qiaoyang Luo
  • Past Higher Degree by Research Supervision (University of Adelaide)

    Date Role Research Topic Program Degree Type Student Load Student Name
    2020 - 2022 Co-Supervisor Machine Learning Approaches to Automated Mechanism Design for Public Project Problem Doctor of Philosophy Doctorate Full Time Dr Guanhua Wang
  • Other Supervision Activities

    Date Role Research Topic Location Program Supervision Type Student Load Student Name
    2019 - ongoing Co-Supervisor Neural Dialogue Systems in Smart Space Macquarie University - Doctorate - Munazza Zaib
    2019 - ongoing Co-Supervisor Trust Management in Block Chain Macquarie University - Doctorate Full Time Subhash Sagar
    2019 - ongoing Co-Supervisor Trust Management in Internet of Vehicles Macquarie University - Doctorate Full Time Sarah Ali Siddiqui
    2018 - ongoing Co-Supervisor Adversarial Attacks on Textual Deep Neural Models Macquarie University - Doctorate Full Time Ahoud Abdultahmn F Alhazmi
    2018 - ongoing Co-Supervisor Dynamic Graph Analysis Macquarie University - Doctorate Full Time Abdulwahab Mohammed M Aljubairy
    2018 - ongoing Co-Supervisor Recommendation Systems Macquarie Unversity - Doctorate Full Time Dai Hoang Tran
    2017 - ongoing Co-Supervisor Internet of Secure Things Macquarie Unversity - Doctorate Full Time Salma Abdalla
    2017 - ongoing Co-Supervisor Activity Recognition Macquarie University - Doctorate Full Time Zawar Hussain
    2017 - ongoing Co-Supervisor Software-Defined Networks Macquarie University - Doctorate Full Time Adnan Qureshi
    2017 - ongoing Co-Supervisor Data Analysis on Energy Usage Macquarie University - Doctorate Full Time Khuyen Nguyen
  • Position: Lecturer
  • Phone: 83130213
  • Email: wei.e.zhang@adelaide.edu.au
  • Campus: North Terrace
  • Building: Ingkarni Wardli
  • Org Unit: Computer Science

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