Associate ProfessorKewen Liao

Associate Professor, Data Analytics and Machine Learning

Faculty of Science Engineering and Built Environment/School of Information Technology

  • Associate Professor, Data Analytics and Machine Learning
    Faculty of Science Engineering and Built Environment/School of Information Technology
  • +61 3 924 46729 (Work)
  • Melbourne Burwood Campus, 221 Burwood Highway, Burwood, Victoria 3125

TEACHING EXPERTISE

I am an experienced teacher with expertise in the following subject areas:

  • Data Science/Data Analytics/Data Mining
  • Machine Learning and Deep Learning
  • Data Structures and Algorithms
  • Programming and Software Engineering

 

I have received multiple awards for teaching excellence and curriculum innovation, as well as near-perfect teaching evaluation scores from my students (4.91/5, 4.82/5, 4.80/5).

 

Units taught:

2025 T1: SIT307/720 Machine Learning (Burwood & Cloud Campus Coordinator, Student Satisfaction: 95%)

2025 T2: SIT319/744 Deep Learning (Burwood & Cloud Campus Coordinator, Student Satisfaction: 100%)

2026 T1: SIT319/744 Deep Learning (Burwood Workshop Tutor, Student Satisfaction: 100%)

TEACHING ACTIVITIES

  • CURRENT DOCTORAL SUPERVISION
    Advancing Deep Learning Methods for the Classification of IoT Time Series Data
    Muhammad Sakib Khan Inan - School of Information Technology
  • CURRENT DOCTORAL SUPERVISION
    Explainable and Context-aware Music Emotion Recognition with Symbolic Representations and Large Language Models
    Qinyuan Wang - School of Information Technology
  • CURRENT DOCTORAL SUPERVISION
    Vision-Language Models for Medical Imaging: Addressing Negation, Hallucination, Domain Shift, and Explainability
    Abdullah Al Mahmud - School of Information Technology
  • CURRENT DOCTORAL SUPERVISION
    Continual Learning in Multimodal LLMs
    Pham Thien Ha Dinh - School of Information Technology