Kee Siong Ng

Translational Fellow

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Location
CSIT Building 108, Office N333

Email
keesiong.ng@anu.edu.au

Phone
+61 2 6125 3259

Clusters
Data Science
Software Innovation Institute

Website
http://users.cecs.anu.edu.au/~kee/

Publications
ORCiD
dblp
Google Scholar

Research

My research interests cover both the theory and practice of a number of inter-related areas:

  • Artificial General Intelligence, including approximations of AIXI
  • Large-scale Machine Learning on Parallel Databases, including work on Apache MADlib
  • Declarative Programming Languages, including design and implementation of Escher and Bach
  • Privacy Technologies and their applications in anti-money laundering
  • Large-scale probabilistic entity resolution, including the PSig algorithm used in combating welfare fraud (see also StellarGraph)
  • Probabilistic reasoning in higher-order logic
  • Statistical Relational Learning
  • Smart Contracts on Blockchains, including an application in AML/CTF

Biography

I am a (part-time) Associate Professor in ANU’s newly formed Software Innovation Institute (SII) and one of the first two Translational Fellows appointed through ANU’s Entrepreneurial Academic Scheme.

I have more than 15 years of post-PhD experience in multiple domains, including government (cyber security, anti-money-laundering and counter terrorism financing, service delivery, healthcare fraud), investment banking, retail, telecom, oil and gas (midstream), and manufacturing. I have consulted for many large enterprises in Asia-Pacific-Japan and act as a trusted advisor for many industry colleagues.

In my day job at Services Australia, I lead a team of data scientists, security architects and security engineers in building and strenghtening the cyber security capabilities behind whole-of-government systems like the new myGov system, GovERP, Digital Identity, and Cyber Hub.

I maintain a blog here: http://mentalmodels4life.net

Awards

  • $8.7m in R&D funding from the Fintel Alliance Expansion NPP (2019 Australian Government Budget)
  • Translational Fellow by ANU (2018)
  • Australia Day CEO Award by AUSTRAC (2017)
  • IJCAI-JAIR Best Paper Award: Honorable Mention (2014)
  • Three $2.56 checks from Emeritus Professor Donald Knuth

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The Australian National University acknowledges, celebrates and pays our respects to the Ngunnawal and Ngambri people of the Canberra region and to all First Nations Australians on whose traditional lands we meet and work, and whose cultures are among the oldest continuing cultures in human history.

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