Skip to content

It is a great honour to receive the IEEE ICDM Research Contributions Award, one of the highest academic awards in data science.

This achievement would not have been possible without the amazing support of countless people and I am deeply indebted to my nominators, the ICDM Awards & Steering Committees, my amazing students, postdocs and collaborators, my incredibly supportive and inspiring colleagues, the invaluable guidance and support of my mentors, the support and affection of my family and friends, and very importantly the amazing data science community of which I have the privilege of being a part.

It is a great honour to receive the IEEE ICDM 2023 10-year Highest-Impact Paper Award for "Dynamic Time Warping Averaging of Time Series allows Faster and more Accurate Classification" by François Petitjean, Germain Forestier, Geoff Webb, Ann Nicholson, Yanping Chen, and Eamonn Keogh.

This was my first paper in the field of time series classification, and consequently my technical contribution was relatively minor, further evidence, in case anyone needs it, that it pays to collaborate with amazing researchers!

I had no idea at the time that this would in time grow to be my primary field of research!

Angus Dempster has received the Computing Research and Education Association of Australasia Distinguished Dissertation Award, the highest Australasian recognition of a computer science PhD for his exceptional PhD that introduced the revolutionary ROCKET approach to time series classification.

He gives an overview of this work in the following video.

I am honoured to have been recognised in The Australian's 2023 Research Magazine as Australia's top Bioinformatics and Computational Biology researcher. This is the third year in a row that The Australian has recognised my research in this way. This is a great recognition of the fantastic research of my bioinformatics collaborators, most especially Jiangning Song. This year they also recognised me as Australia's leading Data Mining & Analysis researcher.

I am honoured to have been recognised in The Australian's 2023 Research Magazine as Australia's top Bioinformatics and Computational Biology researcher. This is the third year in a row that The Australian has recognised my research in this way. This is a great recognition of the fantastic research of my bioinformatics collaborators, most especially Jiangning Song.