ProfessorGang Li

University Academic Board Member (2022-2024), Director of TULIP Lab (https://www.tulip.academy), Director of Researcher Development, Deakin Cyber Research and Innovation Hub/Centre; Director (2020-2023) of D2i Research Centre (https://data2intelligence.deakin.edu.au); Academic Director, Research Training (2008-2023), Faculty HDR Coordinator (2014-2019).

Gang Li, IEEE senior member. He joined the School of Information Technology at Deakin University (Australia) in 2001, and is a full professor. His research interests are in the area of artificial intelligence, data privacy, machine learning, and business intelligence. He serves on the IEEE Data Mining and Big Data Analytics Technical Committee (2025-2026, and 2017-2018 Vice Chair), and IEEE Enterprise Information Systems Technical Committee, IEEE Enterprise Architecture and Engineering Technical Committee, and serves as chair for IEEE Task force on Educational Data Mining (2020-2023 Chair).

He is the editor for Springer's CCIS series, and he acts as an associate editor/editorial board members for Cyber Security, IT&T,  Decision Support Systems (Elsevier, 2014-2019), IEEE Access (IEEE, 2014-2022), Journal of Travel Research (Sage, ABS Star), Tourism Management (Elsevier, ABS 4 Star), Asia Pacific Journal of Tourism Research, and Information Discovery & Delivery (Emerald), and Human-Centric Computing and Information Sciences (Springer) etc. He has been the guest editor for ACM Transactions on PGM, IEEE Access, the Chinese Journal of Computer, Journal of Networks, Future Generation Computer Systems (Elsevier), Concurrency and Computation: Practise and Experience (Wiley) and Enterprise Information Systems (Taylor&Francis).

He has co-authored 12 papers that won best paper prizes, including Springer's  IP&M Journal 2023 Best Ph.D. Paper Award Winner (Honorable Mention), IT&T Journal Paper of the Year 2023, KSEM 2018 Best Paper award, IFITT Journal Paper of the Year (2017, 1st prize), IEEE Trustcom 2016 best student paper award, Journal Paper of the Year (2015, 3rd award) from IFITT, the PAKDD2014 best student paper award, ACM/IEEE ASONAM2012 best paper award, the 2007 Nightingale Prize by Springer journal Medical and Biological Engineering and Computing. He has also conducted research projects on tourism and hospitality management.

He served on the Program Committee for over 200 international conferences in artificial intelligence, data mining, machine learning, tourism and hospitality management, and is a regular reviewer for International Journals in the areas of AI, data science, privacy protection, recommendation system, and business intelligence.