Education:
- Doctor of Philosophy
Department of Computer Science, University of Basel, Switzerland,
September 1995 - February 1999.
Dissertation: A Parallel Iterative Linear System Solver with
Dynamic Load Balancing.
Advisors: Prof. Dr. Christian Ullrich and
Prof. Dr. Clemens Cap
Summary
- Diploma in Computer Science Engineering
(Master of Science)
Department of Computer Science, Eidgenössische Technische
Hochschule (ETH) Zürich, Switzerland,
October 1988 - July 1995.
Thesis: Test- und Diagnosesoftware für Alpha7
(in German).
(Test- and diagnose software for Alpha7)
Advisor: Prof. Dr. Anton Gunzinger
Employment:
- Associate Professor
Research School of Computer Science,
Australian National University, Canberra, Australia,
January 2013 - today.
- Senior Lecturer
School/Department of Computer Science,
Australian National University, Canberra, Australia,
January 2007 - December 2012.
- Associate Dean (HDR) (Higher Degree Research)
ANU College of Engineering and Computer Science,
Australian National University, Canberra, Australia,
July 2009 - June 2011.
- Graduate Studies Field Convener, Computer Science
Research School/Department of Computer Science,
Australian National University, Canberra, Australia,
April 2008 - August 2009.
- Lecturer/Researcher
Department of Computer Science, FEIT,
Australian National University, Canberra, Australia,
January 2001 - December 2006.
- Postdoc Researcher
Computer Sciences Laboratory, RSISE,
Australian National University, Canberra, Australia,
October 1999 - December 2000.
Funded by grants from the Swiss National Science Foundation
(SNF) and the Novartis Stiftung, vormals
Ciba-Geigy-Jubiläums-Stiftung.
- Lecturer in Technical Computer Science II
Department of Computer Science, University of Basel, Switzerland,
April 1999 - July 1999.
- Teaching and Research Assistant
Department of Computer Science, University of Basel, Switzerland,
September 1995 - March 1999.
- Industrial internship
Basler Insurance Company, Basel, Switzerland,
April 1992 - July 1992.
Publications:
Grants and Awards:
- 2012: Received a
ANU 2012 Top Supervisor Award for excellence in
research supervision.
- 2011: Received a
ANU 2011 Top Supervisor Award for excellence in
research supervision.
- 2010: Principle investigator for Google Research Award
"Preference Elicitation for Social Recommendation", 2011.
- 2010: Chief investigator for ARC Linkage Project LP100200079
"Exposing the Anonymous Attacker: Detecting Identity Crimes using
Real-Time Entity Resolution on Large Dynamic Databases" with
industry partners
Veda Advantage
and
Funnelback
(2010 - 2013).
- 2007: Principal investigator for the ANU Faculty of Engineering
and Information Technology (FEIT) Faculty Research Grant Scheme
(FRS) RG82/2008 "Secure data mining and data matching computing
platform".
- 2004: Chief investigator for the
NSW Department of
Health collaborative project "Research into Record Linkage to
Geocoding of Addresses using Geocoded National Address Files",
2004 - 2005.
- 2003: Chief investigator for ARC Linkage Project LP0453463
"Investigation and Development of Parallel Large Scale Record
Linkage Techniques" with industry partner
NSW Department of
Health (2004 - 2006).
- 2002: Principal investigator for the AICS #1-2001
(ANU-Industry Collaboration Scheme) start-up grant
"Parallel Techniques for High-Performance Record Linkage
Techniques", funded by the Australian National University (ANU)
and the
NSW Department of
Health (2002 - 2003).
Professional Activities:
- Conference Co-Chair and Steering Committee member for the
Australasian Data Mining Conference (AusDM12), Sydney,
December 2012.
- Program Chair and Steering Committee member for the
Australasian Data Mining Conference (AusDM11), Ballarat,
December 2011.
- Organising Committee for the
Australasian Data
Mining Conference (AusDM09), Melbourne, December 2009.
- Co-organiser of the
Open Source in Data
Mining workshop (OSDM09), Bangkok, April 2009.
- Organising Committee for the
Australasian Data
Mining Conference (AusDM08), Adelaide, December 2008.
- Organising Committee for the
Australasian Data
Mining Conference (AusDM07), Gold Coast, December 2007.
- Organising Committee for the
Australasian Data
Mining Conference (AusDM06), Sydney, November 2006.
- Senior Program Committee for the
Pacific-Asia Conference on Knowledge Discovery and Data
Mining conference, Kuala Lumpur, May 2012.
- Program Committee for the Workshop on
Quality in Databases (QDB 2012), held at VLDB, Istanbul,
August 2012.
- Program Committee for the Workshop on
Quality in Databases (QDB 2011), held at VLDB, Seattle,
August 2011.
- Program Committee for the
Pacific-Asia Conference on Knowledge Discovery and Data
Mining conference, Shenzhen, May 2011.
- Program Committee for the
Workshop on
Privacy Aspects of Data Mining (PADM 2010), held at
IEEE ICDM,
Sydney, December 2010.
- Program Committee for the Workshop on
Data Mining Application
in Government and Industry (DMAGI 2010), held at
IEEE ICDM,
Sydney, December 2010.
- Program Committee for the
Discovery
Science conference, Canberra, October 2010.
- Program Committee for the Workshop on
Privacy and Security issues in Data Mining and Machine Learning
(PSDML 2010) held at ECML/PKDD, Barcelona, September 2010.
- Program Committee for the Workshop on
Quality in Databases (QDB 2010), held at VLDB, Singapore,
September 2010.
- Program Committee for the
Workshops on Domain Driven Data Mining (DDDM) held at
IEEE ICDM (2009 -- 2011).
- Program Committee for the
PAKDD
workshop on Advances and Issues in Biomedical Data Mining
(AIBDM 2009), Bangkok, April 2009.
- Program Committee for the second
ACM SIGKDD
International Workshop on Privacy, Security, and Trust in
KDD (PinKDD'08), Las Vegas, August 2008.
- Program committee for the first
ACM SIGKDD
International Workshop on Privacy, Security, and Trust in
KDD (PinKDD'07), San Jose, August 2007.
- Program Committee for the
ACM SIGKDD
Workshop on Domain Driven Data Mining (DDDM2007), San Jose,
August 2007.
- Program Committee for the
Workshop on
Privacy Aspects of Data Mining (PADM) held at the
IEEE
International Conference on Data Mining (ICDM), Hong Kong,
December 2006.
- Program Committee for the
Australasian Data
Mining Conference (AusDM05), Sydney, December 2005.
- Program Committee and Session Chair for the
Australasian Data
Mining Conference (AusDM04), Cairns, December 2004.
- Program Committee for the
Australasian Data
Mining Conference (AusDM03), Canberra, December 2003.
- Reviewer for the
Springer journal
Information Retrieval, 2011.
- Reviewer for the
International
Journal of Metadata, Semantics and Ontologies, 2012.
- Reviewer for the
Journal of the American Medical
Informatics Association, 2011.
- Reviewer for the
IEEE
Transactions on Knowledge and Data Engineering; 2006, 2008 -
2012.
- Reviewer for the
ACM Journal of Data and
Information Quality (JDIQ); 2009 to 2012.
- Reviewer for the
Journal of
Computing Science and Engineering (JCSE); 2011.
- Reviewer for the
Springer
Lecture Notes in
Social Networks; 2010.
- Reviewer for the Elsevier journal
Information Fusion; 2010.
- Reviewer for the International Journal of Health Geographics; 2010.
- Reviewer for the Annals of
Applied Statistics; 2010.
- Reviewer for the book
Rare Association Rule Mining and Knowledge Discovery:
Technologies for Infrequent and Critical Event Detection
(Advances in Data Warehousing and Mining Book Series); 2008.
- Reviewer for the
Springer journal
Data Mining and Knowledge Discovery; 2010.
- Reviewer for the
Springer journal
Statistics and Computing; 2008 and 2009.
- Reviewer for Springer
data mining book proposals; 2007 and 2010.
- Reviewer for the
International Journal
of Hybrid Intelligent Systems (IJHIS); 2007.
- Reviewer for the book
Quality
Measures in Data Mining, vol. 43,
Studies in Computational Intelligence.
F. Guillet and H. Hamilton (eds), Springer (March 2007);
2006.
- Reviewer for the
Australian Health Review; 2003 and 2006.
- Reviewer for the Elsevier
Data
and Knowledge Engineering (DKE) journal; 2005 and 2006.
- Reviewer for the
Seventh Asia
Pacific Web (APWeb'05) conference; 2004.
- Reviewer for the Journal of Official Statistics; 2003,
2004 and 2005.
- Reviewer for the IEEE Transactions on Neural Networks;
2003.
- Reviewer for the Systems, Man and Cybernetics - Part B
journal; 2002.
- Reviewer for the IEEE Transactions on Evolutionary
Computation, special issue on Data Mining and
Knowledge Discovery with Evolutionary Algorithms; 2002.
- Reviewer for the ICPP (International Conference on Parallel
Processing); 2002.
- Reviewer for the SIAM Journal of Scientific Computing (SCIC);
2000.
- Research thesis examiner University of Canberra, 2011.
- Research thesis examiner University of Sydney, 2011.
Graduated Research Students:
- Warren Armstrong (PhD, 2012)
- Dr Paul Thomas (PhD, 2008)
- Mr Zhen Yang (MPhil, 2008)
- Mr Irwan Krisna (MComp Honours, 2009)
- Mr Agus Pudjijono (MComp Honours, 2008)
- Mr Xiaoyu Huang (MComp Honours, 2008)
- Mr Ying Hua Zheng (CS Honours, 2007)
- Mr Daniel Belacic (CS Honours, 2005)
- Mr Puthick Hok (CS Honours, 2004)
- Mr Justin Xi Zhu (CS Honours, 2002)
- Ms Julia Lovell (CS Honours, 2001)
Membership:
Languages:
- German (native language)
- English (fluent)
- French (fundamental knowledge)
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