Professor William Guo
PhD (UWA) , GCTE (CQU), MSc (LIS, China), BEng (JLU, China)Professor (Mathematics Education)
School of Engineering and Technology
Centre for Intelligent Systems
William is a teaching professor in mathematics education and computing at CQUniversity. He has made a profound impact on students learning outcomes and experience in mathematics for hundreds of engineering and education students at CQUniversity since 2013. This includes writing three brand-new mathematics textbooks published by Pearson since 2014, which have been liked by students. His effort on teaching mathematics subjects has been appreciated by students, which has brought him multiple Student Voice Commendation Awards since 2014. His excellence in education has been recognized nationally by Australian Research Council (ARC) as an ARC nominated Expert Peer Reviewer in STEM Education in the 2018 Excellence in Research of Australia (ERA) assessment. He was also an External Expert of Tertiary Education Quality & Standards Agency (TEQSA) of Australia (2017-2019).
His research in modelling, simulation and applied computation is also internationally recognized through his 100+ publications, leadership roles in international conferences, editorship of special issues in international journals, including Frontiers in Genetics, IEEE Access, International Journal of Computational Intelligence Systems, Mathematical Problems in Engineering.
William received his PhD from The University of Western Australia in 1999. He has been a faculty member at Edith Cowan University (2001-2007) and Central Queensland University (2007-). He is a member of IEEE and an Accredited Member of AustMS.
Background
- Doctor of Philosophy (PhD), The University of Western Australia (1999)
- Master of Science (MSc), Lanzhou Institute of Seismology (1991)
- Bachelor of Engineering (BEng), Jilin University (1982)
- Leadership Development Program, Mt Eliza Business School, The University of Melbourne (2015)
- Graduate Certificate in Tertiary Education, CQUniversity (2011)
Awards
2019 CQU Student Voice Commendation Award for MATH12224 Calculus and Linear Algeria B
2019 CQU Distance Student Voice Commendation Award for MATH12224 Calculus and Linear Algeria B
2018 CQU Student Voice Commendation Award for MATH11219 Applied Calculus
2018 CQU Distance Student Voice Commendation Award for MATH11219 Applied Calculus
2017 CQU Distance Student Voice Commendation Award for MATH11219 Applied Calculus
2016 CQU Distance Student Voice Commendation Award for MATH12222 Advanced Mathematics and Applications
2014 CQU Student Voice Commendation Award for MATH12222 Advanced Mathematics and Applications
2012 CQU Vice-Chancellor’s Award for Good Practice in Learning and Teaching
2004: The Chunhui Overseas Scholar, Chinese Ministry of Education, China
1999: Hesperian Press Award, Faculty of Science, The University of Western Australia
1995-1998: Overseas Postgraduate Research Scholarship, The Commonwealth Government Australia
1995-1999: University Postgraduate Award, The University of Western Australia
1991: The Best Postgraduate Student Paper, Lanzhou Institute of Seismology, China
1982: Outstanding Student Leadership Award, Jilin University, China
Professional Experience
February 2015 - present: Professor of Mathematics Education and Computing, Rockhampton Campus Leader (ICT/Math) School of Engineering and Technology at Central Queensland University
January 2014 - January 2015: Professor and Dean, School of Engineering and Technology at Central Queensland University
February 2013 - January 2014: Professor and Deputy Dean, School of Engineering and Technology at Central Queensland University
October 2012 - January 2013: Associate Professor in information systems and computing at Central Queensland University
July 2007 - September 2012: Senior Lecturer in information systems and computing at Central Queensland University
July 2006 - June 2007: Program Coordinator for Master of Information Technology with the School of Computer and Information Science at Edith Cowan University
January 2002 - June 2006: Lecturer in computer science and information Technology with the School of Computer and Information Science at Edith Cowan University teaching and developing subjects on software/IT/IS development, project management, distributed systems, and data structures and algorithms in Java
February - December 2001: Research Fellow in computing with the School of Computer and Information Science at Edith Cowan University
Professional Memberships
Member of Australian Computer Society (ACS) (2001-2019)
Member of Association for Computing Machinery (ACM) (2002-2019)
Member of the Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineering (IEEE) (2001-)
Member of Australian Mathematical Society (AMS) (2013-)
Responsibilities
Learning & Teaching
Member of Education Committee of Academic Board (2011-2012)
Member of the 2011 Faculty L&T Awards Panel
HoP of Postgraduate Information System Programs (2010-2011)
Chair of ICT Programs Committee (2012)
Chair of ICT Postgraduate Programs Committee (2010-2011)
Member of Faculty Education Committee (2009-2012)
Program Coordinator for Business Honours (2008-2010)
Research & Innovation
Member of Research High Degree Programs Committee (2012)
Assessor of CQU Grant Applications (2012)
Chair of Confirmation of Candidature (2009)
Keynote speaker/session chair at international conferences
Member of Program Committees for various international conferences
Reviewer for various international journals
External examiner of several RHD theses
Collaborator in research & RHD supervision with Chinese universities
National and University Service
Member of Australian Council of Deans of ICT (2013-2014)
Executive Member of the Australian Council of Professors and Heads of Information Systems (2013-2019)
Member of Academic Board (2013-2014)
Professional Interests
Engineering mathematics
Computational intelligence
Data mining
Digital signal and image processing
Exploration geophysics
Editor
Accreditation
I am currently accredited for supervision in the following:
- 4903 Numerical and Computational Mathematics
- 3901 Curriculum and Pedagogy
- 0801 Artificial Intelligence and Image Processing
Current Capacity
Curriculum and Pedagogy - Mathematics and Numeracy Curriculum and Pedagogy
Mathematics Curriculum and Education
Numerical and Computational Mathematics - Numerical and Computational Mathematics not elsewhere classified
Data analytics, modelling and simulation
