Angela Huo

Dr. Angela Huo is an Associate Professor at the School of Computer Science within the Faculty of Engineering and Information Technology at the University of Technology Sydney (UTS). She holds multiple leadership roles including Deputy Director of Transnational Education for the Faculty of Engineering and IT, Responsible Academic Officer for Teaching and Learning of the School of Computer Science, Course Director for the Bachelor of Computing Science (Honours) program, and site coordinator for the South Pacific Programming Contests region of the International Collegiate Programming Contest (ICPC).

Dr. Huo's research spans several key areas in computer science, with a primary focus on Data Analysis, Recommendation Systems, and Responsible AI. She specializes in utilizing AI and data analysis techniques to improve the efficiency and security of modern software systems. Her recent research interests include recommendation systems, anomaly detection, and privacy-preserving through data mining and deep learning. She has made significant contributions across multiple domains including multimodal learning, federated learning, causal inference, and human behavior recognition.

Dr. Huo's publication record demonstrates a strong trajectory in cutting-edge AI research, with recent work focusing on conditional diffusion models for trajectory prediction, hybrid recommendation systems, causal learning to mitigate echo chambers, and adaptive waste detection. Her research shows a consistent pattern of addressing real-world challenges through innovative AI approaches, often combining multiple techniques to achieve superior results.

Dr. Huo has secured research funding for projects including "Churn prediction scoping study" and "Army sovereign Software-Defined Battlefield Network." She has been actively involved in teaching and curriculum development, having created Industrial sub-majors for Google, AWS and iOS, Information Security sub-major, Data Analytics for Cybersecurity Microcredentials, and Cybersecurity and Privacy major since 2019. She has taught programming and cybersecurity management courses at the undergraduate level and served as HDR Coordinator of the School of Computer Science during 2021-2022.