APPOINTMENTS
| 2002 - | Research Professor, Faculty of Information Technology, Monash University. |
| 1999 - | Director: G I Webb & Associates Pty. Ltd., Data Mining Software and Consultancy |
| 2015 - | Technical Advisor, BigML Inc. |
| 2017 - | Technical Advisor, Froomle. |
| 2020 - 2022 | Research Director, Monash Data Futures Institute, Monash University. |
| 2014 - 2020 | Director, Centre for Data Science, Monash University. |
| 2008 - 2014 | Director, Centre for Research in Intelligent Systems, Monash Unviersity. |
| 1998 - 2002 | Personal Chair, School of Computing and Mathematics, Deakin University. |
| 1988 - 1998 | Lecturer/Senior Lecturer/Reader School of Computing and Mathematics, Deakin University. |
| 1986 – 1988 | Lecturer, School of Computing and Information Technology, Griffith University. |
AWARDS
IEEE Fellow, 2015
Member, The Computing Research and Education Association of Australasia Academy, 2024
IEEE International Conference on Data Mining 10-year Highest Impact Award, 2023
The Australian Research Magazine Australia's Leading Data Mining and Analysis Researcher, 2024
The Australian Research Magazine Australia's Leading Bioinformatics and Computational Biology Researcher, 2024
The Australian Research Magazine Australia's Leading Bioinformatics and Computational Biology Researcher, 2023
Pacific-Asia Conference on Knowledge Discovery and Data Mining Distinguished Research Contributions Award, 2022
IEEE International Conference on Data Mining Best Paper Runner-up Award, 2022
The Australian Research Magazine Australia's Leading Bioinformatics and Computational Biology Researcher, 2021
Eureka Prize for Excellence in Data Science, 2017
Australian Computer Society ICT Researcher of the Year Award, 2016
Australasian Artificial Intelligence Distinguished Research Contributions Award, 2016
SIAM International Conference on Data Mining Best Research Paper Award, 2018
SIAM International Conference on Data Mining Best Research Paper Honorable Mention Award, 2015
Australian Research Council Discovery Outstanding Researcher Award, 2014
IEEE ICDM Service Award, 2013
QUALIFICATIONS
PhD (Computer Science), La Trobe University, 1987
BA (First Class Honours in Computer Science), La Trobe University, 1982.
PUBLICATIONS
I have published more than 300 scientific papers. See also Google Scholar.
GRANTS
Since 1987 I have received grants totaling more than $32 million.
KEYNOTE AND PLENARY ADDRESSES
- Keynote address, 4th ACM SIGKDD Workshop on Deep Learning for Spatiotemporal Data, Applications, and Systems (DeepSpatial 2024), Barcelona, Spain, August 2024.
- Keynote address, 20th Pacific Rim International Conference on Artificial Intelligence (PRICAI2023), Jakarta, Indonesia, November 15 - 19, 2023.
- Keynote address, Australasian Database Conference (ADC), Melbourne, Australia, October 2023.
- Keynote address, 8th Workshop on Advanced Analytics and Learning on Temporal Data (AALTD), Turin, Italy, September 2023. [ slides ]
- Keynote address, 16th International Conference on Knowledge Science, Engineering and Management (KSEM 2023), Guangzhou, China, August 2023. [ slides ]
- Keynote address, 9th SIGKDD International Workshop on Mining and Learning from Time Series (MILLETS), Long Beach, USA, August 2023. [ slides ]
- Keynote address, 6th International Conference on Data Storage and Data Engineering (DSDE 2023), Mianyang, China, February 2023.
- Keynote address, International Workshop on Signal Processing and Machine Learning (WSPML 2022), Beijing, China, December 2022.
- Keynote address, 5th International Conference on Data Storage and Data Engineering (DSDE 2022), Sanya, China, February 2022.
- Keynote address, Artificial Intelligence and Energy Systems, Palai, India, December 2021.
- Keynote address, First International Conference on Artificial Intelligence and Machine Learning Systems (AI-ML SYSTEMS 21), Bangalore, India, October 2021.
- Keynote address, 4th International Conference on Data Storage and Data Engineering (DSDE 2021), Barcelona, Spain, February 2021.
- Keynote address, Lernen, Wissen, Daten, Analysen, LWDA 2020, Berlin, Germany, September 2020.
- Keynote address, International Digital Conference 2020, Lahore, July 2020.
- Keynote address, 12th Asian Conference on Intelligent Information and Database Systems, Phuket, March 2020.
- Keynote address, IEEE ICDM Workshop on Autonomous Machine Learning, Beijing, November 2019.
- Keynote address, Australasian Data Mining Conference (AusDM), Bathurst, November 2018.
- Keynote address, KDD BigMine 18, London, August 2018.
- Keynote address, Third INNS Conference on Big Data and Deep Learning (INNS BDDL), Sanur, Bali, Indonesia, April 2018.
- Keynote address, Fourth International Conference on Information Retrieval and Knowledge Management, Kota Kinabalu, Malaysia, March 2018.
- Keynote address, IoT: Large Scale Learning from Data Streams, Skopje, Macedonia, September 2017.
- Keynote address, Tenth International Conference on Knowledge Science, Engineering and Management (KSEM 2017) , Melbourne, August 2017.
- Keynote address, 2nd International Workshop on Biomedical infOrmatics with Optimization and Machine learning (BOOM), Melbourne, August 2017.
- Invited talk, Big Data Summit, Melbourne, August 2017.
- Keynote address, Practical Big Data Conference, Bangkok, February 2017.
- Invited talk, Third Machine Learning and Data Analytics (MLDAS) Symposium, Doha, Qatar, March 2016.
- Keynote address, International Conference on Accelerator and Large Experimental Physics Control Systems (ICALEPCS-15), Melbourne, October 2015.
- Keynote address, SIGKDD Workshop on Mining and Learning from Time Series (MiLeTS), KDD-2015, Sydney, August 2015.
- Keynote address, SIGKDD Workshop on Interactive Data Exploration and Analytics (IDEA), KDD-2015, Sydney, August 2015.
- Invited talk, Second International Conference on Data Science (ICDS), Sydney, August 2015.
- Invited talk, Tokyo Workshop on Statistically Sound Data Mining, Tokyo, Japan, February 2015.
- Keynote address, Second International Workshop on Data Analytics for Targeted Healthcare, Taiwan, May 2014.
- Keynote address, Third Quality Issues, Measures of Interestingness and Evaluation of Data Mining Models Workshop (QIMIE'13), PAKDD, Gold Coast, April 2013
- Keynote address, 2nd Asian Conference on Machine Learning (ACML 2010), Tokyo, December 2010
- Keynote address, Mining Patterns and Subgroups Workshop, Leiden, November 2010
- Keynote address, Useful Patterns Workshop, SIGKDD-2010, Washington DC, July 2010
- Keynote address, 7th Australasian Data Mining Conference (AusDM 2008), Adelaide, December 2008
- Keynote address, 3rd International Conference on Advanced Data Mining and Applications (ADMA'07), Harbin, August 2007
- Keynote address, 11th Pacific-Asia Conference on Knowledge Discovery and Data Mining (PAKDD'07) Nanjing, May 2007
- Keynote address, 4th International Conference on Active Media Technology (AMT06), Brisbane, June, 2006
- Keynote address, 18th Australian Joint Conference on Artificial Intelligence (AI'05), Sydney, December 2005
- Keynote address, OSDM Workshop at SIGKDD (KDD'05), Chicago, August 2005
- Keynote address, Australian Statistical Conference (ASC 2004): Datamining Session, Cairns, June 2004
- Invited speaker, International Conference on Computers in Education (ICCE2004), Melbourne, December 2004
SERVICE
Editor-in-Chief Data Mining and Knowledge Discovery, Springer (2005 - 2014)
- This is the highest impact journal specifically focused on data mining.
Co-Editor Encyclopedia of Machine Learning, Springer, 2010.
Co-Editor Encyclopedia of Machine Learning and Data Mining, Springer, 2017.
Member, Editorial Advisory Board:
- Data Mining and Knowledge Discovery, Springer (2015 - )
- Statistical Analysis and Data Mining, Wiley Inter Science (2007 - )
Member of the Editorial Boards of :
- Machine Learning, Springer (2003 - )
- ACM Transactions on Knowledge Discovery in Data, ACM (2005 - 2012)
- User Modeling and User Adapted Interaction, Springer (1999 - 2006)
- Knowledge and Information Systems, Springer (2002 - 2005)
General Chair/Co-Chair:
- IEEE International Conference on Data Mining (ICDM 2012)
- Pacific Rim International Conference on Artificial Intelligence (PRICAI 2000)
- Australasian Joint Conference on Artificial Intelligence (AI 2016)
- Pacific Rim International Conference on Artificial Intelligence (PRICAI 2018)
- Pacific-Asia Conference on Knowledge Discovery and Data Mining (PAKDD 2018)
- IEEE International Conference on Data Science and Advanced Analytics (DSAA-2020)
Joint Program Committee Chair:
- ACM SIGKDD Conference on Knowledge Discovery and Data Mining (KDD-15)
- IEEE International Conference on Data Mining (ICDM-2010)
- Pacific Rim International Conference on Artificial Intelligence (PRICAI-06)
- AI-04
Member, Executive Committee, ACM Special Interest Group on Knowledge Discovery and Data Mining (2017 - ongoing).
Member, Steering Committee, IEEE International Conference on Data Science and Advanced Analytics (DSAA) (2014 - ongoing)
Member, Steering Committee, Pacific Rim International Conference on Artificial Intelligence (PAKDD) (2018 - onging)
Member, Executive Committee, International Joint Conference on Artificial Intelligence (IJCAI) (2005)
Honorary Steering Committee Member:
- Pacific Rim International Conference on Artificial Intelligence (PRICAI)
- Australasian Data Mining Conference (AusDM)
Member, Australian Computer Society National Committee on Artificial Intelligence. (1987-1988, 1999 – 2010, Honorary 2010-ongoing)
Member, IJCAI-05 Advisory Committee
President, Australian Society for Computers in Learning in Tertiary Education (ASCILITE.) (1988 – 1991)
Panel Chair/Co-Chair:
- IEEE International Conference on Data Science and Advanced Analytics (DSAA 2017)
- ACM SIGKDD Conference on Knowledge Discovery and Data Mining (KDD 2014)
- ACM SIGKDD Conference on Knowledge Discovery and Data Mining (KDD 2013)
- IEEE International Conference on Data Mining (ICDM-2007)
Test of Time Awards Chair ACM SIGKDD Conference on Knowledge Discovery and Data Mining (KDD 2016)
Test of Time Awards Chair ACM SIGKDD Conference on Knowledge Discovery and Data Mining (KDD 2016)
Awards co-chair:
- The 8th IEEE International Conference on Data Science and Advanced Analytics (DSAA2021)
- European Conference on Machine Learning and Principles and Practice of Knowledge and Data Discovery (ECMLPKDD-19)
- IEEE International Conference on Data Science and Advanced Analytics (DSAA 2017)
I have also served on the program committees of most major machine learning and data mining conferences including senior roles in: KDD-06 (Senior Program Committee Member), SIAM Data Mining Conference - SDM-07 (PC Area Chair), ICML-2002 (Area Chair), ICDM-2002 (Program Committee Vice-Chair).
Consultancies
I have undertaken consultancies for a number of Australia’s largest corporations.