Geoff Webb : Biographical Data

APPOINTMENTS

2002 -	Research Professor, Faculty of Information Technology, Monash University.
1999 -	Director: G I Webb & Associates Pty. Ltd. Data Mining Software and Consultancy
1998 - 2002	Personal Chair, School of Computing and Mathematics, Deakin University.
1988 - 1998	Lecturer/Senior Lecturer/Reader School of Computing and Mathematics, Deakin University.
1986 – 1988	Lecturer, School of Computing and Information Technology, Griffith University.

QUALIFICATIONS

PhD (Computer Science), La Trobe University, 1987
BA (First Class Honours in Computer Science), La Trobe University, 1982.

PUBLICATIONS & GRANTS

I have published more than 150 scientific papers and am the author of the commercial data mining software package Magnum Opus, a system that embodies many of my research contributions in the area of data mining.

Since 1987 I have received grants to a total of $3,776,924 ($1,153,880 as sole investigator) including $2,608,176 from national competitive grant schemes. I have also been an associate investigator on grants totalling $11,009,647.

Offices Held, Editorial Boards & Program Committees:

Editor-in-Chief :

Member, Editorial Advisory Board:

Statistical Analysis and Data Mining, Wiley Inter Science (2007 - )

Member of the Editorial Boards of :

ACM Transactions on Knowledge Discovery in Data, ACM (2005 - )
Machine Learning, Springer (2003 - )

User Modeling and User Adapted Interaction, Springer (1999 - 2006 )
Knowledge and Information Systems, Springer (2002 - 2005)

Member, Executive Committee, International Joint Conference on Artificial Intelligence (IJCAI) (2005)

Member, Steering Committee, Pacific Rim International Conference on Artificial Intelligence (PRICAI) and the Australian Artificial Intelligence Conference (Aus AI)

Member, Australian Computer Society's National Committee on Artificial Intelligence and Expert Systems. (1987-1988, 1999 – current)

Member, IJCAI-05 Advisory Committee

Joint Program Committee Chair PRICAI-06

Joint Program Committee Chair AI-04

General Chair of the Pacific Rim International Conference on Artificial Intelligence (PRICAI 2000) held in Melbourne.

President, Australian Society for Computers in Learning in Tertiary Education (ASCILITE.) (1988 – 1991)

I have also served on numerous conference program committees including: KDD-06 (Senior Program Committee Member), SIAM Data Mining Conference - SDM-07 (PC Area Chair ), ICML-2002 (Area Chair), ICDM-2002 (Program Committee Vice-Chair).

Foundation Member, Monash Centre for Research in Intelligent Systems (CRIS)

Recent Keynote and Plenary addresses

Invited keynote speaker 3rd International Conference on Advanced Data Mining and Applications (ADMA'07), Harbin, August 2007
Invited keynote speaker 11th Pacific-Asia Conference on Knowledge Discovery and Data Mining (PAKDD'07) Nanjing, May 2007
Invited keynote speaker 4th International Conference on Active Media Technology (AMT06), Brisbane, June, 2006
Invited keynote speaker 18th Australian Joint Conference on Artificial Intelligence (AI'05), Sydney, December 2005
Invited keynote speaker, OSDM Workshop at SIGKDD (KDD'05), Chicago, August 2005
Invited keynote speaker Australian Statistical Conference (ASC 2004): Datamining Session, Cairns, June 2004
Invited speaker International Conference on Computers in Education (ICCE2004), Melbourne, December 2004

Recent invited tutorials AND SEMINARS

Invited talk, Microsoft Research, San Diego, July 2007
Invited talk, Dept Computer Science and Engineering, University of California, San Diego, July 2007
Invited talk, Dept. Computer Science Colloquium, Rutgers University, New Jersey, August 2006
Invited talk, Siemens Medical Research, Philadelphia, PA, August 2006
Invited guest lecturer, ARC Research Network in Enterprise Information Infrastructure PhD Winter School in Datamining and Bioinformatics, Lorne, Victoria, August 2006
Invited talk, CSLI Seminar on Computational Learning and Adaptation, Stanford University, California, June 2005
Invited talk, Google Research Labs, California, June 2005
Invited talk, IBM Almaden Research Labs, California, June 2005
Invited talk, CSLI Seminar on Computational Learning and Adaptation, Stanford University, California, June 2005
Invited guest lecturer Pacific Asia Knowledge and Datamining Discovery School (PAKDD School 2004), University of Technology, Sydney, May 2004

Supervision of postgraduate students

PhD: (7 graduated, 3 in progress) 10
MSc: 3

Research Council Service

Reader and Assessor, Australian Research Council (2001 - )
Member, Assessment Panel, National Science Foundation (USA). ITR-ML: Team Projects, Data Mining (2003)

Assessor, Norwegian Research Council (2001, 2002)

Software

My data mining software, Magnum Opus is marketed by Rulequest Research and is widely used internationally including by a number of Fortune 500 companies.
My machine learning software, is widely used. The following recent papers present applications of, or extensions to, AODE.
1. J.Cerquides, & R. L. D. Mantaras, (2005). Robust Bayesian linear classifier ensembles. Proc. 16th European Conf. Machine Learning, Lecture Notes in Computer Science, pp. 70–81.
2. L. Cruz, J. Pérez, V. Landero, E.h S. del Angel, V. M. Álvarez. and V. Peréz. (2004) An Ordered Preprocessing Scheme for Data Mining. Proceedings of PRICAI 2004: Trends in Artificial Intelligence: 8th Pacific Rim International Conference on Artificial Intelligence. Berlin: Springer, pp. 1007 – 1008.
3. L. De Ferrari.(2005) Mining housekeeping genes with a naïve Bayes classifier. MSc Thesis, University of Edinburgh, School of Informatics.
4. A Faulhaber (2005) Enhancing hypernym extraction for named entities using machine learning based classification. Bachelor's thesis, Institute of Computer Science, Faculty of Mathematics and Computer Science, University of Heidelberg.
5. K. Flikka, L. Martens, J. Vandekerckhove, K. Gevaert, and I. Eidhammeri (2005) Improving throughput and reliability of peptide identifications through spectrum quality evaluation. In Proceedings of the 9th Annual International Conference on Research in Computational Molecular Biology.
6. K. Hunt (2006) Evaluation of novel algorithms to optimize Risk Stratification Scores in Myocardial Infarction. Diploma Thesis University of Zurich, Department of Informatics.
7. T. A. Lasko, S. J. Atlas, M. J. Barry, and H. C. Chueh (2006) Automated Identification of a Physician's Primary Patients. J Am Med Inform Assoc. 13:74-79.
8. A. P. Nikora (2005) Classifying requirements: Towards a more rigorous analysis of natural-language specifications. In Proceedings of the 16th IEEE International Symposium on Software Reliability Engineering, pages 91-300.

External Consultancies

I have undertaken consultancies for a number of Australia’s largest corporations.

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