Associate Professor Ashad Kabir is an expert in data analytics and machine learning in health care. His research focuses on applying advanced technologies, including data mining, artificial intelligence, and smartphone sensing, to solve problems in the domain of health and well-being while considering individuals’ privacy and system security. He is the Deputy Leader of the Data Mining Research Group at Charles Sturt University (CSU). He has extensive experience conducting industry-funded multidisciplinary projects with a total budget of over $7.5 million. He successfully led two projects in partnership with healthcare providers with excellent impact and quality publications. He has published over 120 research articles in top-tier venues, including the IEEE Journal of Biomedical and Health Informatics, Computers in Biology and Medicine, Front. in Public Health, JMIR mHealth and uHealth, and Cancers journals. He is an editorial board member for several journals, including BMC Medical Informatics and Decision Making and the Frontiers in Digital Health. He has delivered keynotes at several conferences and been invited as a guest speaker to deliver talks at several prominent universities across the world, including the University of Maryland (USA), Texas A&M University (USA), the University of Toronto (Canada), and the Auckland University of Technology (New Zealand). Dr Kabir is the recipient of the 2023 Vice Chancellor Research Excellence Award – “Researcher Excellence through Partnership”, 2022 Vice Chancellor Research Excellence Award – “Researcher of the Year in the Faculty” and the 2021 Charles Sturt Faculty Research Excellence Award in recognition of his research publications, leadership, impact, significance, and entrepreneurial spirit.