I am a research-intensive academic in STEM (Information Technology) as an Enterprise Fellow, ARC DECRA Fellow and Senior Lecturer.
I am leading human-agent interaction and learning research, and my research innovations build the bridge between human cognition and AI agent and their applications to support decision-making, including brain-computer interface, deep reinforcement learning, human-in-the-loop reasoning, multi-agent systems, and relevant applications (e.g., clinical/healthcare, ground transportation and space). For recent updates and detailed information, please visit my personal website: https://czh513.github.io
I am open to self-motivated, outstanding PhD applicants and also interested in working with UniSA... Read more
About me
I am a research-intensive academic in STEM (Information Technology) as an Enterprise Fellow, ARC DECRA Fellow and Senior Lecturer.
I am leading human-agent interaction and learning research, and my research innovations build the bridge between human cognition and AI agent and their applications to support decision-making, including brain-computer interface, deep reinforcement learning, human-in-the-loop reasoning, multi-agent systems, and relevant applications (e.g., clinical/healthcare, ground transportation and space). For recent updates and detailed information, please visit my personal website: https://czh513.github.io
I am open to self-motivated, outstanding PhD applicants and also interested in working with UniSA Honour/Master students for short-term research projects. Interested applicants, please contact me by email - Jimmy.Cao@unisa.edu.au.
About me
Doctor of Philosophy University of Technology Sydney
Before joining UniSA, I worked at the University of Technology Sydney and the University of Tasmania and completed my PhD at Australian AI Institute.
Research
Excludes commercial-in-confidence projects.
A closed-loop human–agent learning framework to enhance decision making, ARC - Discovery Early Career Researcher Award, 01/10/2022 - 18/10/2026
Major funded research projects,
Research
Research outputs for the last seven years are shown below. Some long-standing staff members may have older outputs included. To see earlier years visit ORCID, ResearcherID or Scopus
Open access indicates that an output is open access.
| Year | Output |
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| 2025 |
1
2
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| 2023 |
Open access
7
7
1
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| 2023 |
47
39
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| 2021 |
Open access
49
37
2
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| 2021 |
Open access
288
221
22
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| Year | Output |
|---|---|
| 2024 |
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| 2022 |
Open access
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| Year | Output |
|---|---|
| 2020 |
Open access
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| 2020 |
Open access
9
|
| 2019 |
7
2
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| 2019 |
5
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| Year | Output |
|---|---|
| 2025 |
Open access
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| 2025 |
1
2
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| 2025 |
Open access
1
|
| 2025 |
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| 2025 |
1
|
| 2025 |
24
26
|
| 2025 |
4
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| 2025 |
1
1
|
| 2025 |
|
| 2024 |
30
24
|
| 2024 |
10
8
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| 2024 |
11
10
|
| 2024 |
64
64
|
| 2024 |
6
4
|
| 2024 |
15
12
|
| 2024 |
Open access
14
10
|
| 2024 |
Open access
2
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| 2024 |
2
|
| 2024 |
Open access
10
8
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| 2023 |
Open access
7
7
1
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| 2023 |
Open access
1
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| 2023 |
Open access
12
12
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| 2023 |
47
39
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| 2023 |
Open access
9
9
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| 2023 |
19
12
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| 2023 |
8
7
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| 2023 |
18
38
|
| 2023 |
Open access
74
81
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| 2023 |
Open access
19
16
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| 2022 |
Open access
45
33
|
| 2022 |
Open access
7
6
1
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| 2022 |
Open access
11
10
|
| 2022 |
Open access
5
6
1
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| 2022 |
Open access
8
6
2
|
| 2022 |
9
8
1
|
| 2022 |
Open access
51
45
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| 2022 |
Open access
67
63
1
|
| 2021 |
Open access
25
12
|
| 2021 |
43
32
1
|
| 2021 |
Open access
31
18
5
|
| 2021 |
Open access
6
5
|
| 2021 |
Open access
49
37
2
|
| 2021 |
Open access
24
17
|
| 2021 |
Open access
39
32
|
| 2021 |
63
59
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| 2021 |
49
38
|
| 2021 |
46
39
|
| 2021 |
Open access
288
221
22
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| 2021 |
56
46
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| 2021 |
Open access
35
29
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| 2021 |
Open access
8
8
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| 2021 |
19
15
3
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| 2021 |
102
86
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| 2021 |
27
25
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| 2021 |
Open access
10
8
11
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| 2021 |
Open access
18
17
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| 2021 |
154
142
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| 2021 |
15
12
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| 2021 |
146
90
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| 2021 |
50
50
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| 2021 |
32
23
|
| 2021 |
Open access
61
53
2
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| 2021 |
Open access
58
51
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| 2020 |
Open access
75
78
3
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| 2020 |
99
93
1
|
| 2020 |
13
13
|
| 2020 |
48
44
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| 2020 |
2
|
| 2020 |
Open access
61
78
|
| 2020 |
Open access
125
106
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| 2020 |
40
36
|
| 2020 |
Open access
16
9
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| 2020 |
Open access
9
7
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| 2020 |
3
3
|
| 2020 |
59
53
|
| 2020 |
Open access
61
53
|
| 2020 |
102
77
|
| 2020 |
Open access
41
27
|
| 2019 |
Open access
27
35
25
|
| 2019 |
Open access
247
210
4
|
| 2019 |
Open access
67
66
14
|
| 2019 |
Open access
47
35
5
|
| 2019 |
Open access
24
21
|
| 2019 |
90
89
|
| 2019 |
Open access
40
40
1
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| 2019 |
21
23
|
| 2019 |
Open access
8
7
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| 2019 |
Open access
14
13
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| 2019 |
16
13
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| 2019 |
Open access
22
20
|
| 2019 |
Open access
24
19
|
| 2018 |
189
174
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| 2018 |
52
46
1
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| 2018 |
Open access
61
52
2
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| 2018 |
Open access
3
2
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| 2018 |
Open access
56
49
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| 2018 |
Open access
18
16
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| 2018 |
Open access
4
4
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| 2017 |
Open access
66
58
4
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| 2017 |
Open access
27
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| 2016 |
Open access
67
61
11
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| Year | Output |
|---|---|
| 2025 |
Open access
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| 2025 |
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| 2024 |
Open access
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| 2024 |
1
1
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| 2024 |
Open access
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| 2024 |
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| 2024 |
1
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| 2023 |
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| 2021 |
1
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| 2021 |
Open access
2
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| 2020 |
11
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| 2020 |
Open access
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| 2020 |
7
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| 2019 |
Open access
2
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| 2017 |
12
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| 2015 |
20
3
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External engagement & recognition
| Organisation | Country |
|---|---|
| Army Medical University | PAKISTAN |
| Australia Defence Science & Technology (DST) Group | AUSTRALIA |
| Australian Research Centre for Interactive and Virtual Environments | AUSTRALIA |
| Beijing University of Technology | CHINA |
| Bohai University | CHINA |
| Brandon University | CANADA |
| Changsha Commerce and Tourism College | CHINA |
| Chengdu University of Information Technology | CHINA |
| Chinese Academy of Medical Sciences | CHINA |
| Chongqing University | CHINA |
| Chongqing University of Posts and Telecommunications | CHINA |
| CSIRO Australia (Commonwealth Scientific Industrial Research organisation) | AUSTRALIA |
| Deemed University | INDIA |
| Edge Hill University | UNITED KINGDOM |
| First Affiliated Hospital of Xi'an Jiaotong University | CHINA |
| Griffith University | AUSTRALIA |
| Guizhou University | CHINA |
| Harbin Engineering University | CHINA |
| Harbin Institute of Technology | CHINA |
| Heifei University of Technology | CHINA |
| Huazhong University of Science and Technology | CHINA |
| Hunan University | CHINA |
| Hunan University of Science and Technology | CHINA |
| Indian Institute of Technology | INDIA |
| Indian Institute Of Technology Indore | INDIA |
| Indian Statistical Institute | INDIA |
| Ku Leuven | BELGIUM |
| Kyoto University | JAPAN |
| Kyung-hee University | KOREA, REPUBLIC OF (SOUTH) |
| Macau University of Science and Technology | MACAU (SAR OF CHINA) |
| Macquarie University | AUSTRALIA |
| Nanjing University of Aeronautics and Astronautics | CHINA |
| Nanjing University of Information Science and Technology | CHINA |
| Nantong University | CHINA |
| Nanyang Technological University | SINGAPORE |
| National Chiao Tung University | TAIWAN |
| National Taiwan Ocean University | TAIWAN |
| National University of Defense Technology | CHINA |
| National Yang Ming University | TAIWAN |
| Newcastle University, United Kingdom | UNITED KINGDOM |
| Oklahoma State University - Stillwater | UNITED STATES |
| Peking University | CHINA |
| Pennsylvania State University | UNITED STATES |
| Poznan University of Technology | POLAND |
| RMIT University | AUSTRALIA |
| Sejong University | KOREA, REPUBLIC OF (SOUTH) |
| Shanghai Jiao Tong University | CHINA |
| Shanghaitech University | CHINA |
| Shaoxing University | CHINA |
| Shenzhen University | CHINA |
| Sichuan Normal University | CHINA |
| Singular Wings Medical | TAIWAN |
| South China University of Technology | CHINA |
| Southeast University | CHINA |
| Southwest University | CHINA |
| Southwest University Of Science And Technology | CHINA |
| Swinburne University of Technology | AUSTRALIA |
| Taipei Veterans General Hospital | TAIWAN |
| Technical University of Denmark | DENMARK |
| Torrens University Australia | AUSTRALIA |
| Ulster University | UNITED KINGDOM |
| University of Adelaide | AUSTRALIA |
| University of Alberta | CANADA |
| University of British Columbia | CANADA |
| University of California | UNITED STATES |
| University of California San Diego | UNITED STATES |
| University of Electronic Science and Technology of China | CHINA |
| University of Fortaleza | BRAZIL |
| University of Gadjah Mada | INDONESIA |
| University of Helsinki | FINLAND |
| University of Jaen | SPAIN |
| University of Macau | MACAU (SAR OF CHINA) |
| University of New South Wales | AUSTRALIA |
| University of Nottingham | UNITED KINGDOM |
| University of Oxford | UNITED KINGDOM |
| University of Pennsylvania | UNITED STATES |
| University of Pittsburgh | UNITED STATES |
| University of Queensland | AUSTRALIA |
| University of Science and Technology | SUDAN |
| University of Science and Technology of China | CHINA |
| University of South Australia | AUSTRALIA |
| University of Sydney | AUSTRALIA |
| University of Tasmania | AUSTRALIA |
| University of Technology | IRAQ |
| University of Technology Sydney | AUSTRALIA |
| University of Technology, Sydney | AUSTRALIA |
| University of Teramo | ITALY |
| University of Waterloo | CANADA |
| Wild Ocean Tasmania | AUSTRALIA |
| Xian Jiao Tong University | CHINA |
| Xi'an Jiaotong University | CHINA |
| Xihua University | CHINA |
| Xinxiang Medical University | CHINA |
| Zhejiang University | CHINA |
External engagement & recognition
| Engagement/recognition | Year |
|---|---|
Area ChairACM SIGKDD International Conference on Knowledge Discovery and Data Mining 2025 |
2025 |
Area ChairACM International Conference on Multimedia (MM) 2025 |
2025 |
Area ChairInternational Conference on Autonomous Agents and Multiagent Systems (AAMAS) 2026 |
2025 |
Associate EditorIEEE Transactions on Neural Networks and Learning Systems |
2025 |
Associate EditorIEEE Transactions on Fuzzy Systems |
2025 |
Associate EditorNeurocomputing |
2025 |
Associate EditorNeural Networks |
2025 |
Editorial Board MemberScientific Data |
2025 |
ACMAs Distinguished SpeakerAssociation for Computing Machinery (ACM) |
2024 |
Area ChairThe 32nd ACM International Conference on Multimedia (ACM MM) |
2024 |
Associate EditorIEEE Transactions on Fuzzy Systems |
2024 |
Associate EditorNeurocomputing |
2024 |
Associate EditorNeural Networks |
2024 |
Associate EditorIEEE Transactions on Neural Networks and Learning Systems |
2024 |
Associate EditorIEEE Transactions on Neural Networks and Learning Systems |
2024 |
Associate EditorNeural Networks |
2024 |
Associate EditorIEEE Transactions on Fuzzy Systems |
2024 |
Best Paper AwardIEEE International Conference on Agents |
2024 |
Committee MemberIEEE Computational Intelligence Society Young Professionals (CIS-YP) |
2024 |
Editorial Board MemberScientific Data |
2024 |
Publicity ChairThe 21st Pacific Rim International Conference on Artificial Intelligence (PRICAI) |
2024 |
Session ChairInternational Joint Conference on Neural Networks (IJCNN) 2024 |
2024 |
ACMAs Distinguished SpeakerAssociation for Computing Machinery (ACM) |
2023 |
Associate EditorIEEE Transactions on Fuzzy Systems |
2023 |
Associate EditorNeurocomputing |
2023 |
Associate EditorIEEE Transactions on Neural Networks and Learning Systems |
2023 |
Associate EditorIEEE Transactions on Fuzzy Systems |
2023 |
Associate EditorIEEE Transactions on Neural Networks and Learning Systems |
2023 |
Editorial Board MemberScientific Data |
2023 |
Guest EditorInformation Fusion |
2023 |
IEEE TNNLS Outstanding Associate Editor AwardIEEE Computational Intelligence Society (CIS) |
2023 |
JSPS Invitation FellowJapan Society for the Promotion of Science (JSPS) |
2023 |
Top 2% Global ScientistStanford University and Elsevier |
2023 |
ACMAs Distinguished SpeakerAssociation for Computing Machinery (ACM) |
2022 |
Associate EditorIEEE Transactions on Fuzzy Systems |
2022 |
Associate EditorNeurocomputing |
2022 |
Associate EditorIEEE Transactions on Neural Networks and Learning Systems |
2022 |
Associate EditorIEEE Transactions on Fuzzy Systems |
2022 |
Associate EditorIEEE Transactions on Neural Networks and Learning Systems |
2022 |
Discovery Early Career Researcher Award (DECRA)Australian Research Council Discovery |
2022 |
Editorial Board MemberScientific Data |
2022 |
Global Top Chinese Young Scholar in AIBaidu |
2022 |
IEEE CIS Student and Early Career Mentoring ProgramIEEE World Congress on Computational Intelligence (WCCI) 2022 |
2022 |
Program ChairThe 6th IEEE International Conference on Agents (ICA) |
2022 |
Session ChairThe 21st International Conference on Autonomous Agents and Multiagent Systems (AAMAS) |
2022 |
Top 2% Global ScientistStanford University and Elsevier |
2022 |
Workshop ChairThe 19th Pacific Rim International Conference on Artificial Intelligence (PRICAI) |
2022 |
Young Researcher of 9th Heidelberg Laureate ForumHeidelberg Laureate Forum Foundation |
2022 |
Associate EditorNeurocomputing |
2021 |
Associate EditorScientific Data |
2021 |
Associate EditorNeurocomputing |
2021 |
Editorial board memberFrontiers in Neuroscience |
2021 |
Editorial Board MemberScientific Data |
2021 |
General ChairThe 5th IEEE International Conference on Agents (ICA) |
2021 |
ACS Certified Professional (CP) AwardAustralian Computer Society |
2020 |
Associate EditorNeurocomputing |
2020 |
Associate EditorScientific Data |
2020 |
Associate EditorNeurocomputing |
2020 |
Editorial Board MemberScientific Data |
2020 |
Leading Guest EditorIEEE Transactions on Industrial Informatics |
2020 |
Leading Guest EditorIEEE Transactions on Fuzzy Systems |
2020 |
Session ChairICONIP: The 27th International Conference on Neural Information Processing, |
2020 |
Session ChairIEEE-FUZZY: IEEE International Conference on Fuzzy Systems, |
2020 |
Associate EditorNeurocomputing |
2019 |
Associate EditorNeurocomputing |
2019 |
Associate EditorScientific Data |
2019 |
Editorial Board MemberScientific Data |
2019 |
Teaching & student supervision
Supervisions from 2010 shown
| Thesis title | Student status |
|---|---|
| 110459 - Advancing machine learning for human-machine partnership in decision making | Current |
| A hybrid intrinsic knowledge representation and reasoning in deep reinforcement learning | Current |
| An autonomous real-time satellite tasking and dynamic resource allocation based on distributed, multi-agent deep reinforcement learning | Current |
| Dynamic optimization of heterogeneous constellation resources | Current |
| Handling Dynamic Environments with Extremely Few Examples | Current |
| Onboard Dynamic Optimization of Heterogeneous Satellite Constellation Resources | Current |
| The influence of virtual realism on cognitive and neurocognitive aspects of design thinking | Current |
| Multimodal deep learning for decoding visual and neural representation | Completed |
| Towards efficient deep reinforcement learning in complex and dynamic tasks | Completed |