Overview
Key publications
Research funding
Supervising & teaching
Career
Section: Overview
Overview
Key publications
Research funding
Supervising & teaching
Career

Key details

Areas of expertise

  • Data mining
  • Data science
  • Artificial intelligence
  • Health informatics
  • Databases

Available to supervise research students

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About Yanchun Zhang

Professor Zhang is an international research leader in databases, data mining, health informatics, web information systems, and web services. He has published over 300 research papers in international journals and conferences proceedings, and authored/edited 20 books.

His research has been supported by a number of Australian Research Council (ARC) linkage projects and discovery project grants. His research has made significant impacts on society. For example, the multidisciplinary research into e-health has produced software systems and mapping tools to assist relevant government/industry organisations establish health needs, allowing the development of policy based on firm evidence. Some of the organisations assisted include:

  • World Health Organization
  • Tasmanian Department of Health and Human Services
  • Royal Brisbane and Women's Hospital
  • Westgate General Practice Network, Melbourne.

 

Professor Zhang is the Editor-In-Chief of World Wide Web journal (Springer), and Health Information Science and Systems (Springer). He is Chairman of the International Web Information Systems Engineering Society (WISE Society.)

He won the VU's Medal for Excellence in Research in 2005, and the VU Vice Chancellor's Peak Award for Research and Research Training in Research Supervision in 2011, respectively.

He was a member of Australian Research Council's College of Experts (2008-2010), and serves as expert panel-member at various international funding agencies such as National Natural Science Fund of China (NSFC), 'National 1000 Talents Program' of China, the Royal Society of New Zealand Marsden Fund.

Qualifications

  • PhD, The University of Queensland (UQ), Australia, 1991

Key publications

Yanchun has over 435 publications, with a selection listed here.


A more comprehensive list of Yanchun's publications is available in the VU Research Repository.

Year Citation
2022 Ge, Y. F., Orlowska, M., Cao, J., Wang, H., & Zhang, Y. (220101). MDDE: multitasking distributed differential evolution for privacy-preserving database fragmentation Paper presented at VLDB Journal.

doi: 10.1007/s00778-021-00718-w
2021 Zhang, J., Zhang, Y., & Xu, X. (210718). ObjectAug: Object-level Data Augmentation for Semantic Image Segmentation Paper presented at Proceedings of the International Joint Conference on Neural Networks.

doi: 10.1109/IJCNN52387.2021.9534020

Year Citation
2022 Liu, F., Zhou, X., Cao, J., Wang, Z., Wang, T., Wang, H., & Zhang, Y. (220601). Anomaly Detection in Quasi-Periodic Time Series Based on Automatic Data Segmentation and Attentional LSTM-CNN. IEEE Transactions on Knowledge and Data Engineering, 34(6), (2626-2640).

doi: 10.1109/TKDE.2020.3014806
2022 Yin, X. X., Baghai-Wadji, A., & Zhang, Y. (220515). A Biomedical Perspective in Terahertz Nano-Communications-A Review. IEEE Sensors Journal, 22(10), (9215-9227).

doi: 10.1109/JSEN.2022.3161013
2022 Li, C., Tang, Y., Tang, Z., Cao, J., & Zhang, Y. (220301). Motif-based embedding label propagation algorithm for community detection. International Journal of Intelligent Systems, 37(3), (1880-1902).

doi: 10.1002/int.22759
2022 Sun, L., Zhou, R., Peng, D., Bouguettaya, A., & Zhang, Y. (220101). Automatically Building Service-Based Systems With Function Relaxation. IEEE Transactions on Cybernetics,

doi: 10.1109/TCYB.2022.3164767
2022 Yin, X. X., Miao, Y., & Zhang, Y. (220101). Time Series Based Data Explorer and Stream Analysis for Anomaly Prediction. Wireless Communications and Mobile Computing, 2022

doi: 10.1155/2022/5885904
2021 Ge, Y. F., Yu, W. J., Cao, J., Wang, H., Zhan, Z. H., Zhang, Y., & Zhang, J. (211001). Distributed Memetic Algorithm for Outsourced Database Fragmentation. IEEE Transactions on Cybernetics, 51(10), (4808-4821).

doi: 10.1109/TCYB.2020.3027962
2021 Supriya, S., Siuly, S., Wang, H., & Zhang, Y. (210901). New feature extraction for automated detection of epileptic seizure using complex network framework. Applied Acoustics, 180

doi: 10.1016/j.apacoust.2021.108098
2021 Du, J., Rong, J., Wang, H., & Zhang, Y. (210901). Neighbor-aware review helpfulness prediction. Decision Support Systems, 148

doi: 10.1016/j.dss.2021.113581

Research funding for the past 5 years

Please note:

  • Funding is ordered by the year the project commenced and may continue over several years.
  • Funding amounts for contact research are not disclosed to maintain commercial confidentiality.
  • The order of investigators is not indicative of the role they played in the research project.

Effective and Efficient Situation Awareness in Big Social Media Data
From: Victoria University, Australian Research Council - Discovery Project
For period: 2020-2022
 $510,000

Deep Mining Neurological Abnormalities from Brain Signal Data
From: ARC - Linkage
Other investigators: Dr Hua Wang
For period: 2018-2021
 $371,662
Increasing data quality with group associations in outsourcing environment
From: Australian Research Council - Discovery Project, College of Engineering and Science, PVC (Research and Research Training)
Other investigators: Dr Hua Wang
For period: 2018-2021
 $754,989

To Investigate the usability and value to Clinicians (Chinese Medicine Practitioners and Wester Medicine Practitioners) - Chinese Herbal Medicine Interaction.
From: Centre for Applied Informatics, UnityHealth Pty Ltd Fund
For period: 2017-2017
 Not disclosed

Privacy preserving data sharing in electronic health environment
From: Nexus Grant, PVC (Research and Research Training), ARC - Linkage
Other investigators: Dr Hua Wang, Prof Yuan Miao
For period: 2016-2019
 $589,808

Measuring and mining genetic variation related to disbetes mellitus type II. (Nanjing Nandian funded.)
From: Nanjing Nandian Software Technology
Other investigators: Prof Yuan Miao
For period: 2013-2017
 $139,216
Using Data Mining Methods to Remove Uncertainties in Sensor Data Streams
From: Australian Research Council - Discovery Project
For period: 2013-2017
 $568,598

Real-time and Self-Adaptive Stream Data Analyser for Intensive Care Management
From: ARC - Linkage, Australian e-Health Research Centre, Royal Brisbane and Women's Hospital, Jiangsu Provincial Key Laboratory of E-Business
For period: 2010-2017
 $503,824

Supervision of research students at VU

Available to supervise research students

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Currently supervised research students at VU

No. of students Study level Role
2 PhD Principal supervisor
2 PhD Associate supervisor
3 PhD Integrated Associate supervisor
1 PhD Integrated Principal supervisor
3 Master of Research Associate supervisor
1 Master of Research Principal supervisor

Currently supervised research students at VU

Students & level Role
PhD (2) Principal supervisor
PhD (2) Associate supervisor
PhD Integrated (3) Associate supervisor
PhD Integrated (1) Principal supervisor
Master of Research (3) Associate supervisor
Master of Research (1) Principal supervisor

Completed supervision of research students at VU

No. of students Study level Role
6 PhD Associate supervisor
16 PhD Principal supervisor
1 PhD Acting supervisor
1 Masters by Research Associate supervisor
1 PhD Integrated Principal supervisor

Completed supervision of research students at VU

Students & level Role
PhD (6) Associate supervisor
PhD (16) Principal supervisor
PhD (1) Acting supervisor
Masters by Research (1) Associate supervisor
PhD Integrated (1) Principal supervisor

Careers

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