News

• One papers is accepted by DASFAA24 on March 2024.
• Two papers are accepted by TKDE and TOIS on Jan 2024.
• One paper is accepted by TKDE on Sep 2023.
• One paper is accepted by TORS on Nov 2023.
• One paper is accepted by CIKM 2023.
• One paper is accepted by Neurocomputing on Feb 2023.
• Dianer is successful in UTS President's Scholarship.
• Dianer is successful in CSIRO Data61 scholarship by Data61 scholarship selection committee.
• Dianer has been rewarded as 2021 Postgraduate Dean's List.
• Two papers are accepted by TKDE and SIGIR22.
• Dianer started his PhD journey at UTS, one paper is accepted by PAKDD22 Core A.
• Dianer has received Msc degree from UTS on 2021.
• Dianer has been rewarded as 2020 Postgraduate Dean's List.
• Dianer has received BSc degree from UTS on 2018.

Education

• Doctor of Philosophy: Causal Model for Recommendation
  University of Technology Sydney, Sydney, Australia
  Duration: Jan 2022 - current
  Supervisors: Chair Prof. Guandong Xu and Dr. Qian Li


• Master of Information Technology
  University of Technology Sydney, Sydney, Australia
  Duration: 2021 - 2022
  Awards: High Distinction Average, Dean's List in both 2020 and 2021


• Bachelor of Science in Information Technology
  University of Technology Sydney, Sydney, Australia
  Duration: 2015 - 2018
  Awards: Distinction Average

Work Experiences

Academic Tutor at University of Technology Sydney (1/2022 - current)
• Providing AI-related lectures and tutorials to postgraduate and undergraduate students, such as 41004 (AI/Analytics capstone project), 42046 (Data Processing using R) and 48024 (Programming 2 Java&Python).
• Organizing capstone projects for more than 200 students and providing supervision for multiple groups of students.
• Designed and developed a new subject about React front-end framework, guiding students to learn the React through a hands-on project-based approach.
• Marking all the assignments and resolving the daily questions for students.
• Offering continuous support through Q\&A sessions, assessments, and prompt resolution of students' daily inquiries, fostering a conducive learning environment.
• Collaborating with senior educators to refine course materials and teaching methodologies, contributing to the ongoing improvement of the academic curriculum.

Developer Programmer at All Employment Solutions, Sydney (8/2018 - 2/2022)

• Writing JAVA and Python program codes to create backend system and databases.
• Writing efficient SQL query to extract the needed information from complex environments.
• Using Python to custom build machine learning model to resolve customer classification related question for the company’s marketing purpose.
• Writing instruction manuals and guidelines, applying relevant changes according to program updates, and providing internal trainings to relevant departments on the using of the programs.
• Maintaining, updating and enhancing the stability and efficiency of the codes.
• Providing expertise in data storage structures, data mining, data warehouse and data cleansing.
• Processing millions-levels data and translating facts to inform strategic business decisions.
• Conducting internal tests with the other departments, collecting feedbacks, and making relevant adjustments and enhancements.
• Formulating development plans on the basis of needs analysis and reporting to managers.

Developer Programmer at Bedworks, Sydney (8/2019 - 4/2020)

• Agile development methodology used to develop and implement an online shopping management system through PrestaShop platform.
• Writing JAVA and PHP program codes, and creating and structuring databases, testing programs and debugging errors.
• Maintaining, updating and enhancing the stability and efficiency of the codes.
• Experienced in debugging, implementing unit test strategies and test cases during agile development methodology.
• Taking advantage of Cloud based storage AWS S3 that allows ultimate scalability and high availability.
• Integrate new payment method into front-end PrestaShop platform such as AfterPay payment. Change plugin and module compatibility when a new version of the plugin needs to be installed into an older version.
• Increase customer traffic through creating Google shopper bot tracking for GA and add Rich Snippets. Monitor and add firewall through Cloudflare service.