Professor Alan Wee-Chung Liew
Academic Advisor · Head of School, School of Information and Communication Technology, Griffith University
Professor, Griffith University · Founder and Lead, AI4Health Lab · Co-founder and Co-lead, TrustAGI Lab
Australia
About
Professor Alan Liew is Head of the School of Information and Communication Technology at Griffith University and an internationally recognised researcher in artificial intelligence (AI), machine learning, medical imaging, computer vision and bioinformatics. His research focuses on advanced, trustworthy and translational AI methods for complex real-world problems, particularly in health and biomedical applications.
At Griffith he founded the AI4Health Lab, which he leads, and co-founded the TrustAGI Lab, which he co-leads. His current research spans AI for health and medical imaging, multimodal learning, trustworthy and explainable AI, graph learning and foundation models, computer vision, machine learning and bioinformatics. A major emphasis is translating advances in AI into real-world applications through collaboration with clinicians, health researchers, scientists, government and industry, including Gold Coast University Hospital and Queensland Health.
Professor Liew joined Griffith University in 2007. Before that he was an Assistant Professor in the Department of Computer Science and Engineering at The Chinese University of Hong Kong and a Senior Research Fellow in the Department of Electrical Engineering at City University of Hong Kong.
He has published more than 300 journal and conference papers and two books, and holds three international patents.
h-index 53 on Google Scholar and 42 on Scopus · More than 300 papers · 34 PhD completions at Griffith (20 as Principal Supervisor)
Affiliation
School of Information and Communication Technology, Griffith University, Gold Coast
Research
Research areas
Research interests
Research grants
- More than $13.46 million in research, industry and project funding as chief investigator or collaborating investigator, from the Australian Research Council (ARC), National Health and Medical Research Council (NHMRC), Medical Research Future Fund (MRFF), Australia's Economic Accelerator (AEA), Office of National Intelligence, CSIRO, Department of Foreign Affairs and Trade, Queensland Health and industry partners.
Supervision
Since joining Griffith he has achieved 34 PhD completions, 20 as Principal Supervisor. He currently supervises doctoral researchers working on multimodal medical AI, trustworthy and explainable AI, graph foundation models, large language models, privacy-preserving learning, medical image analysis, image and video understanding, and AI applications in health and engineering.
Education & experience
Education
- PhD, Electrical and Electronic Engineering, University of Tasmania, Hobart (1993–1996)
- Bachelor of Engineering (First Class Honours), Electrical and Electronic Engineering, University of Auckland (1989–1992)
Experience
- 2022 – present Professor, School of Information and Communication Technology, Griffith University (Gold Coast)
- 1 Jun 2022 – present Head of School, School of ICT, Griffith University
- 1 Mar 2019 – 31 Dec 2024 Deputy Director, Institute for Integrated and Intelligent Systems, Griffith University
- 1 Oct 2018 – 31 May 2022 Deputy Head of School (Research), School of ICT, Griffith University
- 2010 – 2021 Associate Professor, School of ICT, Griffith University
- Sep – Dec 2011 Visiting Professor, Linguistic Lab, Department of Chinese Language and Literature, Peking University
- 2007 – 2009 Senior Lecturer, School of ICT, Griffith University
- 2004 – 2006 Assistant Professor, Department of Computer Science and Engineering, The Chinese University of Hong Kong
- 2002 – 2004 Senior Research Fellow, Department of Electronic Engineering, City University of Hong Kong
- 1997 – 2002 Research Fellow, Department of Electronic Engineering, City University of Hong Kong
Teaching
Skills & service
Professional service
Associate Editor of IEEE Transactions on Fuzzy Systems, Springer Nature Computer Science, International Journal of Computational Intelligence Systems and Machine Intelligence Research. Member of organising and programme committees of international conferences, assessor for nationally competitive research grants, and reviewer for international journals and conferences.
Awards
- Fellow, Queensland Academy of Arts and Sciences
- Fellow, Australian Computer Society
- Senior Member, IEEE (since 2005)
- Stanford University World's Top 2% Scientists (Computer Science: AI and Image Processing), recognised since 2021 for career-long impact
Publications
Enhanced multi-objective particle swarm optimisation for estimating hand postures
Saremi, S.; Mirjalili, S.; Lewis, A.; Liew, A. W. C.; Dong, J. S.
Knowledge-Based Systems 158, 175-195
Let’s Consider Two Objectives When Estimating Hand Postures
Saremi, S.; Mirjalili, S.; Lewis, A.; Liew, A. W. C.
Australasian Joint Conference on Artificial Intelligence, 119-130