Clifton Phua

Clifton is at SAS Institute Pte Ltd, working on SAS® Analytics (mostly in security intelligence) for customers. In his free time, he volunteers professional services to events, conferences, and journals (related to data mining/analytics, security and health informatics). Was also part of teams which won some analytics competitions.

His specialization is Big Data analytics in public security (attack and disaster preparation/recovery/response; cyber security; internal security; and predictive policing) and fraud (government, banking, and insurance).

He is an associate editor for the Big Data Journal, and editorial board member of International Journal of Cyber Warfare and Terrorism. In addition, he is a program committee member of IEEE International Conference on Big Data, Joint Intelligence and Security Informatics Conference, and International Symposium on Foundations of Open Source Intelligence and Security Informatics.

His teams have won challenges such as GE Flight Quest Phase 1 Competition 2013 and Fraud Detection in Mobile Advertising Competition 2012. He has published more than 30 technical papers on various industry applications of data analytics, such as fraud detection and activity recognition.

Clifton’s PhD (on identity crime detection) and bachelor's (first class honors) degrees are from Clayton School of Information Technology, Monash University, Australia.