He established and directed the first Australian research centre dedicated to
big data analytics: Advanced Analytics Institute at UTS in 2011, where he built the analytics degrees: Master of Analytics and PhD Thesis: Analytics in 2011 at UTS. He is the inaugural Editor-in-Chief of
International Journal of Data Science and Analytics (JDSA), publishing since 2016, and the Editor-in-Chief of
IEEE Intelligent Systems, the oldest AI publication in
IEEE. He founded the IEEE International Conference on Data Science and Advanced Analytics (DSAA) and established and chairs: • IEEE Task Force on Data Science and Advanced Analytics • IEEE Task Force on Behavioral, Economic and Socio-cultural Computing • ACM
SIGKDD Australian and New Zealand Chapter (ANZKDD) Cao published several books and over 300 papers since 2005. Cao's research focuses include
data science His specialized areas include
behavior informatics and
behavior computing,
domain-driven data mining and actionable knowledge discovery,
agent mining, non-IID learning, and
AI in finance and FinTech. He led a series of enterprise analytics/data science projects for major government and business in domains including social security, taxation, immigration, capital markets, insurance, banking, telecommunication, health, transport, services, and education. ==Awards and honors==