Research Bites is your research news digest which aims to capture the diverse research happening in our faculty, collated from various media outlets. In this edition…
Congratulations to our exceptional alum Dr Nectarios Costadopoulos for publishing another paper from his PhD thesis, together with his co-authors Dr David Tien, Dr Sabih Rehman, and Professor Zahid Islam.
The paper, An Agnostic Interpretable Machine Learning for Knowledge Discovery Framework, presents the research team’s new framework AIM4KD (Agnostic Interpretable Machine Learning for Knowledge Discovery). It delivers a 22 fold increase in high-quality logic rules for better knowledge discovery and emotional-stress detection by combining preprocessing, classification, and interpretability in an innovative way.
Their code and DEAP dataset preprocessing scripts are now publicly available, empowering researchers to explore interpretable AI in health, finance, and beyond.
Professor Lihong Zheng celebrates her teams’ highly cited paper “Image Segmentation for MR Brain Tumor Detection Using Machine Learning: A Review.” It has been awarded 1st Prize in the 2025 IEEE Engineering Medicine and Biology Prize Paper Award. Congratulations to all involved!
Dr Michael Bewong was privileged to present his collaborative research titled: FastER: On-Demand Entity Resolution in Property Graphs at the 24th International Semantic Web Conference (ISWC 2025, ERA/CORE Ranked A), held in the stunning city of Nara, Japan. This work addresses the challenge of identifying and merging multiple representations of the same real-world entity in graph data. Imagine a system that can automatically retrieve and unify your forgotten duplicate accounts across platforms to enhance data quality on demand! The paper is freely accessible here.
Michael extends his gratitude to his co-authors Shujing Wang, Sibo Zhao, Shiqi Miao, Selasi Kwashie, Junwei Hu, Vincent M. Nofong, PhD and Zaiwen Feng for their collaborative spirit and dedication over the years, and to Charles Sturt University for supporting the research journey that led to this publication.
Congratulations to The Data Science & Engineering Research Unit (DSERU), part of the School of Computing, Mathematics, and Engineering. Under the leadership of Professor Lihong Zheng, the DSERU has won an accolade in the Australia Learning & Development Innovation of the Year – Education category at the Asian Innovation Excellence Awards 2025. The recognition highlights the university’s research outcomes that combine advanced data science, engineering, and technology applications to address Australia’s sustainability and development priorities.
Professor Jac Birt, Head of School (Business), is very proud to share and is celebrating the publication of the 9th edition of their Accounting textbook! Thank-you to all the team at Wiley and her fabulous colleagues and authors:
Mark Levings
Georgie O’Brien
Tara Seeto
David Bond
Albie Brooks
Keryn Chalmers
Suzanne Maloney
Judy Oliver
Shweta Sehgal
