{"id":9,"date":"2020-04-17T21:26:38","date_gmt":"2020-04-17T11:26:38","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/jeffreychan.org\/?page_id=9"},"modified":"2026-07-07T12:19:42","modified_gmt":"2026-07-07T02:19:42","slug":"jeffrey-chan","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"https:\/\/jeffreychan.org\/","title":{"rendered":"Professor Jeffrey Chan"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<div class=\"wp-block-group alignwide is-layout-flow\"><div class=\"wp-block-group__inner-container\">\n<div class=\"wp-block-columns is-layout-flex wp-container-3\">\n<div class=\"wp-block-column is-layout-flow\" style=\"flex-basis:66.66%\">\n<p>Associate Dean, <a href=\"https:\/\/www.rmit.edu.au\/about\/schools-colleges\/computing-technologies\/research\/data-science-artificial-intelligence\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">Data Science and AI Discipline <\/a>                                      <br><a href=\"https:\/\/www.rmit.edu.au\/about\/our-education\/academic-schools\/science\/research\/research-areas\/computer-science-and-information-technology\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">School of Computing Technologies<\/a><br><a href=\"http:\/\/www.rmit.edu.au\/\">RMIT University<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Building 14<br>Level 8, Room 15<br>City Campus, RMIT University<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Phone: +613 992 55270<br>Email: [first name] dot [last name] at rmit dot edu dot au<br><a rel=\"noreferrer noopener\" href=\"http:\/\/orcid.org\/0000-0002-7865-072X\" target=\"_blank\">OrcID<\/a>, <a rel=\"noreferrer noopener\" href=\"https:\/\/www.linkedin.com\/in\/jeffrey-chan-98492014\/\" target=\"_blank\">LinkedIn<\/a>, <a href=\"https:\/\/scholar.google.com.au\/citations?user=I9mDeiYAAAAJ&amp;hl=en\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">Google Scholar<\/a>, <a href=\"https:\/\/www.rmit.edu.au\/profiles\/c\/jeffrey-chan\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">RMIT Homepage<\/a><\/p>\n<\/div>\n\n\n\n<div class=\"wp-block-column is-layout-flow\" style=\"flex-basis:33.33%\"><div class=\"wp-block-image\">\n<figure class=\"aligncenter is-resized\"><img decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" src=\"https:\/\/jeffreychan.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/04\/jchan-2.jpg\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-27\" width=\"219\" height=\"296\"\/><\/figure><\/div><\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div><\/div>\n\n\n\n<hr class=\"wp-block-separator has-css-opacity is-style-wide\"\/>\n\n\n\n<div class=\"wp-block-group is-layout-flow\"><div class=\"wp-block-group__inner-container\">\n<p>Hi! Welcome to my webpage.&nbsp; I am a researcher in&nbsp;<strong>machine learning and data science<\/strong>, with a focus on <strong>responsible AI<\/strong> and <strong>recommender systems.&nbsp; <\/strong>I also have interests in the areas of&nbsp;<strong>social network analysis<\/strong> and&nbsp;integrated&nbsp;<strong>optimisation-machine learning approaches<\/strong>, and applications in health, AI for good, Industry 5.0, transportation and agriculture.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Contact me if you cannot&nbsp;<em>access a paper<\/em>&nbsp;or&nbsp;<em>interested in doing research<\/em>&nbsp;with me.&nbsp; Always happy to discuss and looking for opportunities to supervise or\/and collaborate.<\/p>\n<\/div><\/div>\n\n\n\n<hr class=\"wp-block-separator has-css-opacity is-style-wide\"\/>\n\n\n\n<h3 class=\"wp-block-heading\"><mark style=\"background-color:rgba(0, 0, 0, 0);color:#e51805\" class=\"has-inline-color\">Recruiting Students<\/mark><\/h3>\n\n\n\n<p>I&#8217;m&nbsp;recruiting PhD and Honours students.&nbsp; If you are are interested in working with me in one of my areas (see&nbsp;<a href=\"https:\/\/jeffreychan.org\/index.php\/jeffrey-chan\/research-projects\/\">research projects&nbsp;<\/a>and&nbsp;<a href=\"https:\/\/jeffreychan.org\/index.php\/jeffrey-chan\/publications\/\">publications&nbsp;<\/a>) and have&nbsp;<strong>excellent<\/strong>&nbsp;results, please don&#8217;t hesitate in contacting me. &nbsp;There are a number of scholarships&nbsp;<a href=\"http:\/\/www.rmit.edu.au\/scholarships\/research\"><strong>(APA, IPRS, RPIS, RPS, VCPS)<\/strong><\/a>&nbsp;and funded places available.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<hr class=\"wp-block-separator has-css-opacity is-style-wide\"\/>\n\n\n\n<h3 class=\"wp-block-heading\">Quick Links<\/h3>\n\n\n\n<p>Code and datasets are available&nbsp;<a href=\"https:\/\/jeffreychan.org\/index.php\/jeffrey-chan\/softwares-datasets\/\">here<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<hr class=\"wp-block-separator has-css-opacity is-style-wide\"\/>\n\n\n\n<h3 class=\"wp-block-heading\">Supervision<\/h3>\n\n\n\n<h4 class=\"wp-block-heading\">Current Students:<\/h4>\n\n\n\n<ul>\n<li>Edward Small (PhD) &#8211; Fair and Explainable AI<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li>Tung Lam Ngo (PhD) &#8211; Bayesian Optimisation<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li>Bjeorn Kommannder (PhD) &#8211; Social Network Analysis<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li>Imesh Ekanayake (PhD) &#8211; Fair and Private Machine Learning<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li>Md Faisal Ahmed (PhD) &#8211; User Simulations in Recommender Systems<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li>Zoha Usama (PhD) &#8211; Medical Image Processing<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li>Minh Hoang Tran (PhD) &#8211; Software Debugging Baselines<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li>Laura Gartry (PhD) &#8211; AI in Newsrooms<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li>Wenhao Zhou (PhD) &#8211; Fair Allocation in Crowdsourcing<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li>Xinye Wanyan (PhD) &#8211; Simulation in Recommender Systems<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li>Jessica Kahn (PhD) &#8211; Debiasing in ML<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li>Haoli Wang (PhD) &#8211; Smart and Fair Routing in Crowdsourcing<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li>Thukaraka Pakeerathan (PhD) &#8211; Fair LLMs<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li>Imalsha Sanduni Ubayawickrema (PhD) &#8211; Explainable Recommender Systems<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li>Jiapeng Du (PhD) &#8211; Fake Review Detection<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li>Tong Zhou (PhD) &#8211; Medical NLP<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n\n\n\n<h4 class=\"wp-block-heading\">Graduated Students:<\/h4>\n\n\n\n<ul>\n<li>Yueqing Xuan (PhD, 2026) &#8211; Explainable and Fair Recommender Systems<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li>Parthasarathy Nadarajan (PhD, 2026) &#8211; Smart Vehicle Navigation<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li>Hiruni Kegalle (PhD, 2025) &#8211; Involuntary 3rd Party Effects in Automated Decision Making Systems<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li>Ruimin Chu (PhD, 2025) &#8211; Machine Learning for Fuel-loss Detection<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li>Yufan Kang (PhD, 2025) &#8211; Multi-party Fairness <\/li>\n\n\n\n<li>Ying Zhi Cheong (PhD, 2025) &#8211; Chip Design Optimisation<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li>Chao Zhu (MCS, 2024) &#8211; Event Detection from Social Media<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li>Sichen Zhao (PhD, 2023) &#8211; Representation Learning<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li>Servet Kocak (MCS, 2023) &#8211; Machine Learning for Fuel-loss Detection<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li>Lachlan Coff (PhD, 2022) &#8211; Bioinformatics in Fish Management<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li>Nasrin Sultana (PhD, 2022) &#8211; Learning to Optimise<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li>Sajal Halder (PhD, 2022) &#8211; Itinerary Recommendation<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li>Kendall Taylor (PhD, 2022) &#8211; Multi-objective Optimisation<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li>Chaminda Bulumulla (PhD, 2022) &#8211; Agent-Diffussion modelling simulations<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li>Jiaman Ma (PhD, 2021) &#8211; Smart Traffic \/ Smart City<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li>Shiwei Jiang (PhD, 2020) &#8211; NLP<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li>Yassien Shaalan (PhD, 2020) &#8211; Learning to Rank Products<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li>Naif Almusallam (PhD, 2018) &#8211; Feature Selection in Streams<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li>Kushani Perera (PhD, 2018) &#8211; Feature Selection<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li>Chen Jin (PhD, 2017) &#8211; Large population Evolutionary Computing<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li>Kwan Hui Lim (PhD, 2017) &#8211; Itinerary Recommendation<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li>Wei Shao (PhD, 2017) &#8211; Spatio-Temporal Analysis<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li>Yediya Juan (MIT, 2017) &#8211; Matrix Factorisation<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li>Tanya&nbsp;Srinidhi (Data 61 Summer Intern, 2017)<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li>Shyamsundar Dorairaj (MCS, 2016)<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li>Kendall Taylor (Nicta\/Data 61 Summer Intern, 2016)&nbsp; &#8211; BCS Honours, RMIT University<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li>Han Yi (PhD, 2016) &#8211; Tripalocal &amp; Post-Doctoral Researcher, University of Melbourne<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li>You Han Xia (MCS, 2015) &#8211; PhD, RMIT University<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li>Akshay Mahajan (MCS, 2015)<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li>Yichen Li (MIT, 2015)&nbsp; &#8211; PhD, University of Melbourne<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li>Oscar Fabian Correa Guerrero (MCS, 2014) &#8211; PhD, University of Melbourne<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li>Kang Hu (MIT, 2014)<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li>Zhangyue Cheng (MIT, 2014)<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li>Bingzan (Lillian) Liang (Intern &amp; MIT, 2013)<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li>Tian Fang (MIT, 2013)<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li>Samantha Lam (MPhil, 2013)<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li>Andrey Kan (PhD, 2012) &#8211; Researcher at WEHI, Melbourne<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li>Erik Aumayr (Intern, 2010) &#8211; PhD Candidate at INSIGHT@NUIG, Ireland<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n\n\n\n<hr class=\"wp-block-separator has-css-opacity is-style-wide\"\/>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Associate Dean, Data Science and AI Discipline School of Computing TechnologiesRMIT University Building 14Level 8, Room 15City Campus, RMIT University Phone: +613 992 55270Email: [first name] dot [last name] at rmit dot edu dot auOrcID, LinkedIn, Google Scholar, RMIT Homepage Hi! 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