Homepage of Peter Christen

Associate Professor and Coursework Masters Program Convenor ANU College of Engineering and Computer Science (CECS) Research School of Computer Science (RSoCS) The Australian National University (ANU) 0200 Canberra, ACT Australia Email peter.christen@anu.edu.au Phone +61 2 612 55690 Fax +61 2 612 50010 Room N330 in the Computer Science and Information Technology (CSIT) building (#108)

Information for students:

• Please note that the ANU is not offering internships during the northern hemisphere summer (i.e. May to August)!

• Weekly timetable with contact hours

• My PhD, Honours and summer research projects

• In semester 1 / 2013 I am teaching:
  1. COMP8400 - Algorithms and Techniques for Data Mining.

  2. COMP3420 - Advanced Databases and Data Mining

My research interests:

• We also have a PhD scholarship in privacy-preserving record linkage available.

• Data matching (record linkage, entity resolution). I am interest in computational aspects (scalability and real-time matching), as well as privacy issues in data matching.

  I have written a book titled Data Matching - Concepts and Techniques for Record Linkage, Entity Resolution, and Duplicate Detection, which will be published by Springer in their Data-Centric Systems and Applications in August 2012. For details (including a PDF file of preface, table of contents, and references) see the data matching book page. Buy the book from Amazon.com (a Kindle version is now available).

• Data Mining (especially privacy-preserving data mining and social network mining)
  (for an excellent resource on data mining see: www.KDnuggets.com - Analytics, Big Data, and Data Mining Resources).

Links:

• List of my publications and selected presentations.

• My profile page at Google Scholar.

• My CV (HTML)

Personal interests:

• I am a keen scuba diver and member of the ANU Scuba Club.

• Besides breathing, my main activity under water is taking pictures.

And I care:

• Medecins Sans Frontieres
• Australian Red Cross
• Amnesty International Australia
• Australian Marine Conservation Society
• National Parks Association of NSW
• Stop Shark Finning
• GetUp!
• Zeitgeist