2026 Keynote Speakers (Ubi-Media)

Biography

David Taniar's research specialises in medical data engineering, which has attracted more than $3 million in research grants throughout his career. David has graduated more than 25 PhD students. He published two books, Data Warehousing and Analytics (Springer, 2021) and High Performance Parallel Database Processing (Wiley, 2008), that have attracted more than 80,000 downloads. In 2005, he founded three SCIE-indexed journals: Mobile Information Systems, International Journal of Web and Grid Services, and International Journal of Data Warehousing and Mining. David is listed as a Top Computer Scientist by Research.com and the top 2% computer scientist globally listed by Stanford University. He is an Associate Professor at Monash University, Australia.

David Taniar

Title: Multidisciplinary Research with Medicine and Healthcare: What does it look like?

Abstract:

In this talk, I will share my experiences, including challenges, issues, and impacts, in conducting multidisciplinary research between informatics and medical/healthcare, collaborating with medical doctors, hospitals, and public health professionals. I will discuss, particularly, THREE areas of how informatics can contribute to multidisciplinary teams with healthcare professionals and practitioners: (1) Electronic Medical Records or EMR, including assisting hospitals in their accreditation process, emergency department patient records, and disease analysis; (2) Public Health and GIS, covering projects in COVID, Homebirth, Gestational Diabetes, and Influenza A/B; and (3) Medical and Computing Technologies, including medical imaging, early kidney disease detection, hand hygiene, chemotherapy monitoring and other monitoring systems. The focus of this research is on data to empower medical informatics research and practice. I will discuss future opportunities for collaborative research in medicine and healthcare.

Biography

Dr. Chia-Hui Chang is a full Professor at National Central University, Taiwan. Her research interests include web intelligence, data mining, natural language understanding, chatbot and dialog systems construction, AI in education, and machine learning applications in GPS and HCI. Dr. Chang has published over 80 papers at refereed conferences and journals, including WWW, PAKDD, TKDE, IEEE Intelligent Systems, etc., and was elected one of Stanford's Top 2% Scientists (Career Impact) in 2023 and 2024. She is actively involved in organizing major conferences in her field, including serving as local chair for AACL 2022/ACML 2010, General Chair for ROCLING 2021 and TAAI 2020, area co-chair for ACL 2017 and NAACL 2018. She served as the President of the Taiwan Association for Artificial Intelligence (TAAI) from 2020-2022 and the President of the Association for Computational Linguistics and Chinese Language Processing (ACLCLP) from 2019-2021. She serves as the convenor of the Intelligent Computing Department of the National Science and Technology Council in Taiwan since 2024.

Prof. Chia-Hui Chang

National Central University, Taiwan

Director for Office of Institutional Research