Gang Li
Associate Professor
Director of TULIP Lab
Faculty SEBE HDR Coordinator

Postal Address:
School of Information Technology
Deakin University
221 Burwood Highway, Burwood
VIC 3125, Australia

Office:     T202.3, Melbourne Burwood Campus
Tel:          +61(3) 9251 7434
Email:      ligang@ieee.org, gangli@acm.org

About Me

IEEE senior member. My research interests are in the area of data mining, machine learning, business intelligence, tourism/hospitality management and decision support systems.

I serve on the IEEE Data Mining and Big Data Analytics Technical Committee (Vice-chair 2017), IEEE Enterprise Information Systems Technical Committee, IEEE Enterprise Architecture and Engineering Technical Committee, and act as vice chair for IEEE Task Force on Educational Data Mining, and an associate editor for Decision Support Systems (Elsevier), Interlending & Document Supply (Emerald), and IEEE Access (IEEE), Human-Centric Computing and Information Sciences (Springer). 

Since 2012, I have been the guest editor for a number of ERA2010 Rank A journals, including the Chinese Journal of Computer, Future Generation Computer Systems (Elsevier) and Concurrency and Computation: Practise and Experience (Wiley) and Enterprise Information Systems (Taylor&Francis).

I have co-authored six papers that won best paper prizes, including the IEEE-Trustcom 2016 Best Student Paper award,  the IFITT 2015 Journal Paper of the Year (3rd) award,  PAKDD2014 best student paper, ACM/IEEE ASONAM2012 best paper, the 2008 Nightingale Prize by Springer journal Medical and Biological Engineering and Computing. I have also conducted research projects on  tourism and hospitality management. I served on the Program Committee for over 120 international conferences in artificial intelligence, data mining and machine learning, tourism and hospitality management, and is a regular reviewer for International Journals in the areas of data science, computer network, web services, and business intelligence. 

Recent Events

My Calendar


Academic Activities

Editorial Board:
  • IEEE Access (IEEE, Associate Editor, 2016-)
  • Decision Support Systems (Elsevier, Associate Editor, 2014-)
  • Interlending & Document Supply (Information Discovery & Delivery, SSCI)
  • Human-Centric Computing and Information Sciences (Springer, Associate Editor, 2017-)
PC Member of the following international conferences:
  • ACM RecSys (2013)
  • BI/BSI: Behaviour and Social Informatics (2011-, Co-Organizer)
  • PAKDD: Pacific-Asia Conference on Knowledge Discovery and Data Mining (2004, 2007, 2008, 2009, 2011, ...)
  • ENTER: International Conference on Information Technology and Travel&Tourism (2010, 2011, ...)
  • ACML: Asian Conference on Machine Learning (2009, 2010, ...)
  • ASONAM: International Conference on Advances in Social Networks Analysis and Mining (2009, 2010, 2011, ...)
  • AI: Australian Joint Conference on Artificial Intelligence (2006, 2007, 2010)
  • ADMA: International Conference on Advanced Data Mining and Applications (2006, 2007, 2008, 2009)
  • ICNC-FSKD: IEEE International Conference on Fuzzy Systems and Knowledge Discovery (2009, 2011)
  • AusDM: Australasian Data Mining Conference (2007, 2008, 2009)
  • ICIS: IEEE/ACIS International Conference on Computer and Information Science (2007, 2008, 2009, 2010, 2011, ...)
  • SNPD: ACIS International Conference on Software Engineering, Artifical Intelligence, Networking, and Parallel/Distributed Computing (2008, 2009)
Reviewer for the following international journals:
  • Artificial Intelligence in Medicine 
  • Decision Support Systems
  • Enterprise Information Systems
  • Frontiers of Computer Science
  • Future Generation of Computer Systems
  • Social Network Analysis and Mining
  • Information Sciences: An International Journal 
  • Knowledge and Information System  
  • Journal of Network and Computer Applications 
  • IEEE Transactions on DSC
  • IEEE Transactions on KDE  
  • IEEE Transactions on SMC(B)
  • IEEE Transactions on SMC(C)
  • IEEE Transactions on Fuzzy Systems
  • Journal of Research and Practice in Information Technology
  • Journal of Travel and Tourism Marketing  
  • Asia Pacific Journal of Tourism Research
  • Tourism Management
  • Hospitality Management

External Examiner for HDR (PhD/Msc) Thesis:
  • University of Technology (Sydney), Australia
  • Queensland University of Technology, Australia
  • University of Melbourne, Australia
  • Bahauddin Zakariya University, Pakistan
  • Chinese Academy of Sciences, China
Grant Reviewer
Invited Talks:
  • 02/08/2014, Ride the Wave, but not Drown your Enterprise in Big Data, IEEE Conference on Enterprise Systems (ES2014), Shanghai, China
  • 21/11/2013, Tourism Data Mining, Zhongnan University of Economics and Laws, China
  • 20/11/2013, Privacy Preserving Tag Recommendation, Institute of Information Engineering, Chinese Academy of Sciences, China
  • 18/11/2013, Differential Privacy Recommendation, Southeast University, China
  • 2007-, Tourism and Hospitality Data Mining, DHTM Research Seminar, SHTM, Hong Kong Polytechnic University

Grants and Publications


Research grants can be found here. 


The full list of my recent publication can be accessed via following links: