Kok-Leong Ong
Details
Department: College of Business and Law
Campus: City Campus Australia
kok-leong.ong2@rmit.edu.au
Open to
- Masters Research or PhD student supervision
- Career advice
- Collaborative projects
- Industry Projects
- Media enquiries
- Membership of an advisory committee
- Mentoring (long-term)
About
Kok-Leong Ong is a Professor of AI and Analytics and the Interim Dean, School of Accounting, Information Systems and Supply Chain in the College of Business & Law.
His research focuses on analytics and machine learning translation into practice within different business verticals, and the development of new techniques as required to meet individual business needs. As a result, Kok-Leong's research has had a strong focus on impact, where many of his works were ranked by Altmetric to be in the top 25% and 5% of research in their respective domains. He has received over $1.4m in research grants and serves in various conferences related to analytics, including the prestigious KDD and PAKDD.
Kok-Leong is also well-known for his strategic leadership in programs. He was one of the members that started Australia's first degree in Business Analytics and led the development of La Trobe Business School's foray into Business Analytics from 2015 to 2019. From 2020, he contributed to the Business School's digital transformation program before joining RMIT in September 2021. He has won several teaching and service awards, including two VC's Teaching Award. In 2021, he was one of the four Australia-based academics to be named the Leading Data Academics by CDO Magazine.
Check out Kok-Leong's research on Google Scholar, or connect with him on LinkedIn.
My work focused on data and how it can be used to solve problems through the lens of using technology to translate data into actionable systems or workflows. Through data, I have worked on a range of vertical domains, including e-Commerce, public health, sports, urban studies, marketing and learning.
Research fields
- 350301 Business analytics
- 4602 Artificial intelligence
UN sustainable development goals
- 11 Sustainable Cities and Communities
- 3 Good Health and Well Being
- 9 Industry, Innovation and Infrastructure
Academic positions
- Interim Dean
- RMIT University
- School of Accounting, Information Systems and Supply Chain
- Melbourne, Australia
- Jan 2026 – Present
- Director, Technology Initiative
- RMIT University
- Office of Strategy, International and Engagement
- Melbourne, Australia
- Jan 2025 – Dec 2025
- Director
- RMIT University
- Enterprise AI and Data Analytics Hub
- Melbourne, Australia
- Feb 2022 – Dec 2024
- Head of Department
- RMTI University
- Information Systems and Business Analytics
- Melbourne, Australia
- Jan 2022 – Dec 2024
Non-academic positions
- Board member
- RMIT University
- Digital3
- Melbourne, Australia
- Jan 2023 – Present
Supervisor projects
- Developing policy understanding using Large Language Models to support policy analytical tasks
- 11 Aug 2025
- Advancing Human-aligned AI
- 6 Feb 2025
- Securing LLMs for Financial Applicaitons
- 22 Feb 2024
- PhD Proposal - Evaluating and Mitigating Cyber Risks in Enterprise AI Systems
- 5 Dec 2023
- Security Analysis of ECG-Based Authentication in Wearable Devices
- 21 Aug 2023
- Sustainable AI Transformation for Small and Medium-Sized Enterprises (SMEs) in the Fashion Ecosystem - An Ambidextrous Approach
- 4 Aug 2023
- Build trustworthy and resilient distributed learning system via identifying and resolving threats
- 25 Jul 2023
- Identifying Organisational Artificial Intelligence Readiness
- 19 Jul 2023
- Artificial Intelligence for Car Damage Assessment in eCommerce Applications
- 11 Aug 2022
- Designing an Automated Barking Drone to Detect and Repulse Cattle
- 1 May 2022
- Operationalising Business Analytics in the Post-implementation Context
- 12 Jan 2022
Research interests
Research and engagement in various areas of data analytics and mining, AI and machine learning, automation, and advanced information systems.
