Yifei Dong

Dr. Yifei Dong is a Research Fellow at the Data Science Institute, University of Technology Sydney, with expertise in LLM-assisted agent systems, explainable AI, and multimodal artificial intelligence. Holding a PhD in Computer Science from UNSW Sydney and over a decade of fintech industry experience including CTO roles, he has secured $2.4 million in competitive funding for AI solutions bridging academia and real-world applications in healthcare, education, and finance.

• Education: PhD in Computer Science from UNSW Sydney
• Current Role: Research Fellow at UTS Data Science Institute (2023–present)
• Past Academic Appointments: Lecturer at Southern Cross University and Western Sydney University

Dr. Dong’s research focuses on making AI systems transparent and socially beneficial, with contributions to adversarial AI, trustworthy digital societies, and wireless sensor networks. His recent work includes:

• Developing AICAttack (2025) for adversarial image captioning attacks
• Creating the QMAD fairness metric (2025) for dynamic environments
• Advancing explainable ECG diagnosis systems (2025) via multimodal LLMs

As a scientific awardee (2025 RegTech Social Impact of the Year), he has pioneered AI solutions for vulnerable populations, such as NDSI participants through the "My Complaint Assistant" tool. His supervision of PhD and Honours students emphasizes technical rigor and ethical responsibility.