Dr Maoying Qiao is a Senior Lecturer in School of Computer Science in Faculty of Engineering and IT at the University of Technology Sydney (UTS).

Dr Qiao's research interests include machine learning, especially in diversity promoting modelling. She has published over 15 papers in high-quality journals and conferences. She has been actively severed as PC members for conferences, e.g. NeurIPS, ICML, UAI, IJCNN, etc and reviewers for journals e.g., IEEE TNNLS, IEEE TIP, ACM TKDD, etc.

Dr Qiao has accumulated rich industrial project experience in applying computer vision techniques to develop automation solutions, such as object detection for automated catch report generation and inflorescence detection for grape yield estimation. She is interested in applying technuqies to solve real-world chanllenges and benefit local and global communities.