I am an Associate Professor at the School of Computer Science and Information Technology, and a researcher at the Australian Institute for Machine Learning (AIML), Adelaide University (former The University of Adelaide). I am also an Honorary Lecturer at the School of Computing, Macquarie University. I received my PhD degree from the University of Adelaide in Computer Science.
I am a devoted researcher on distributed systems, natural language processing, text mining, and machine learning and author of over 140 publications. My TIST article was selected as the top 5 outstanding article by Editor-in-Chief in 2022.I am among the top 100 authors worldwide, ranked by field-weighted citation impact, in the SciVal topic for Network Security.  I currently hold an ARC Early Career Industry Fellowship (IE230100119) and am the lead investigator of an ARC Discovery Project (DP240103070) and Linkage Project (LP230200821 ). My works have received academia and industry funding (ARC, Google, DST, etc.) worth > AUD $3M.  I am the recipient of South Australia Young Tall Poppy Award (2024), Women of Colour in STEM Award (2025, Data Science/AI Pioneer category)，Women in AI Asia-Pacific Award finalist (2024, AI in Agribusiness and Rural Development category). 
I have been actively engaged in professional services by serving as conference organizers, conference PC members and reviewer of journals such as ACM/IEEE Trans., IJCAI, ACL, WWW, and KDD, and assessors of ARC funding applications. I also continually develops my leadership by serving as Associate Head of People & Culture, Program Coordinator, Course Coordinator, and outreach contact at the school. I have six-year industry working experiences in multiple roles and has strong industry engagements. I am the member of ACM, IEEE, and ACS.