Shirui Pan is a Professor and an ARC Future Fellow with the School of Information and Communication Technology, Griffith University, Australia. He is a Co-Director of TrustAGI Lab. Before joining Griffith in 2022, he was Senior Lecturer (Associate Professor) with the Faculty of Information Technology, Monash University. He received his Ph.D degree in computer science from University of Technology Sydney (UTS), Australia. He is a Senior Member of IEEE and ACM, and a Fellow of Queensland Academy of Arts and Sciences (FQA).
His research focuses on artificial intelligence and machine learning. His research was cited 45,050 times, H-Index: 78 (on July 14, 2025).
He has made contributions to advance graph machine learning methods for solving hard AI problems for real-life applications, including anomaly detection, graph analytics, and time series forecasting. He is recognized as one of the 2024 AI’s 10 to Watch and the recipient of the 2024 IEEE ICDM Tao Li Award. He has also been named among the AI 2000 AAAI/IJCAI Most Influential Scholars in Australia (2023, 2022), and one of the World’s Top 2% Scientists (2022, 2021). His research received the 2020 IEEE ICDM Best Student Paper Award (2020), and the 2024 IEEE CIS TNNLS Outstanding Paper Award. He has eight papers recognised as the Most Influential Papers in KDD (x1), IJCAI (x5), AAAI (x1), and CIKM (x1) (Feb 2022). He received a prestigious Future Fellowship (2022-2025), one of the most competitive grants from the Australian Research Council (ARC).
PhD positions are open! I am looking for self-motivated Ph.D students. See more information here.
- Artificial Intelligence
- Data Mining
- Machine Learning
- Deep Learning
- NLP
- Graph Neural Networks
- Trustworthy AI
-
PhD in Computer Science
University of Technology Sydney