Research interests:

Topic models and non-parametric methods for text analysis. More generally, theoretical and applied work in machine learning, probabilistic methods, graphical models. See more at my NICTA website.

Bio:

Undergraduate in mathematics and MQual (1st class) in Computer Science at University of Queensland, PhD. in the area of machine learning in 1992 at UTS (Sydney), and a Docentship at University of Helsinki in 2006. Been on committees and/or reviewing for AAAI, ACML, IJCAI, UAI, KDD, COLT, ICML, ECML-PKDD, NIPS, Discovery Science, AI and Statistics, SIGIR, CIKM, ECIR, WSDM and WWW.

Research opportunities with Dr Wray BUNTINE

• Automated Hierarchical Classification of Web Pages or Documents
• Developing Elaborate Topic Models
• Linguistic Topic Models
• Latent Probabilistic Analysis/Inference on Text
• Unsupervised Part-of-Speech Training with Non-parametric Methods