Dr Jia Wu is currently the Research Director for the Centre for Applied Artificial Intelligence at Macquarie University. He is the Director of HDR (Higher Degree Research) in the School of Computing at Macquarie University. Dr Wu is an ARC DECRA Fellow and Senior Lecturer (Associate Professor in North America) in the School of Computing at Macquarie University.  He was awarded Heidelberg Laureate Forum Fellowship from the Australian Academy of Science in 2019. Dr Wu is the Associate Editor of the ACM Transactions on Knowledge Discovery from Data (TKDD), a top data mining journal.

Dr Wu received his Ph.D. degree in Computer Science from the University of Technology Sydney, Australia. Since 2009, he has published 100+ refereed journal and conference papers, including IEEE Transactions on Pattern Analysis and Machine Intelligence (TPAMI), IEEE Transactions on Knowledge and Data Engineering (TKDE), IEEE Transactions on Multimedia (TMM), IEEE Transactions on Industrial Informatics (TII), IEEE Transactions on Neural Networks and Learning Systems (TNNLS), International Joint Conference on Artificial Intelligence (IJCAI), AAAI Conference on Artificial Intelligence (AAAI), ACM SIGKDD Conference on Knowledge Discovery and Data Mining (KDD), IEEE International Conference on Data Mining (ICDM), The Web Conference (WWW), and Neural Information Processing Systems (NeurIPS).

Dr Wu has been serving as the Programme Committee Chair/Contest Chair/Publicity Chair/(Senior) Programme Committees for the prestigious data mining and artificial intelligence conferences for over 10 years, such as KDD, ICDM, WSDM, IJCAI, AAAI, WWW, NIPS, CIKM, SDM, etc. His research team was the recipient of the CIKM'22 Best Paper Runner-Up Award, ICDM'21 Best Student Paper Award, SDM'18 Best Paper Award in Data Science Track, IJCNN'17 Best Student Paper Award, and ICDM'14 Best Paper Candidate Award. He is also the Associate Editor of Neural Networks. Dr Wu is a Senior Member of the IEEE.