Alice Dong is a lecturer in Data Science at UTS. Before UTS, she held the position of Head of Analytics at HSBC Australia, accumulating over 15 years of industry experience in Data Science across major financial institutes including the Commonwealth Banks, Toyota Finance, Citi Bank, and Insurance Australia Group. She is a recognised expert in applying AI to business analytics.

Alice’s research focuses on integrating statistical models with machine learning within the broader field of AI. This includes Bayesian statistics, Optimisations and spatial statistics, with applications in business analytics, claims reserving, pricing, deep learning-based visualization, and image analysis for computer vision and identity verification.

Alice holds a PhD degree in Applied Statistics from Sydney University, A Master of Science (Bioinformatics) degree from the same institute, and a Master of Information Technology degree from the University of Queensland. She has served as a program committee member and reviewer for a number of conferences and peer-reviewed journals.

Alice is committed to promoting environmental awareness through her research. She also fosters diversity through transdisciplinary teaching, particularly in the context of emerging technologies such as AI.