Rate My Professor Jackie Rong

In her career at Monash, Rong directs the Master of Data Science and Master of Applied Data Science (online) programs and has lectured in courses including Data Wrangling, Introduction to Data Science, Statistical Data Modelling, Applied Data Analysis, and Machine Learning. She has produced 40 journal articles, 16 conference papers, and 2 book chapters, with recent works like "A dual-image fusion instance segmentation model for pavement patch detection" (2025, International Journal of Pavement Engineering), "Enhancing Motivation and Learning in Primary School History Classrooms: The Impact of Virtual Reality" (2025), and "HB-net: Holistic bursting cell cluster integrated network for occluded multi-objects recognition" (2025). Rong serves as an editorial board member for Scientific Reports (since 2022) and reviews for prominent journals including Tourism Management (since 2015), Information Processing and Management (since 2019), and IEEE Transactions on Human-Machine Systems. She is also a program committee member for conferences such as AAAI, IJCAI, and PRICAI. Her research contributes to projects like the ARC Research Hub for Value-Added Processing of Underutilised Carbon Waste (2024-2029) and AI for Clean Energy and Sustainability (2023-2027), impacting UN SDGs in health, education, and sustainability. With more than 2,800 citations on Google Scholar, Rong's work significantly influences the fields of applied data science and artificial intelligence.