Ann Nicholson Curriculum Vitae
Curriculum Vitae
- Associate Professor, Clayton School of IT, Monash University
Qualifications
- Doctor of Philosophy
- Oxford University, 1992
- Thesis: "Monitoring Discrete Environments using Dynamic Belief Networks"
- Supervisor: Prof. J.M. Brady
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- Master of Science
- Melbourne University, 1990
- Thesis: "Logic Programming Models for Parallel Parsing
in Natural Language"
- Supervisors: Dr. L. Naish and
Prof. R.D.S. Sussex.
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- Bachelor of Science (Honours, 1st class)
- Melbourne University, 1986
- Major: Computer Science
- Honours Thesis: "Declarative Debugging of the Parallel Logic Programming Language GHC"
Supervisor: Prof J. W. Lloyd (now ANU)
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Previous Appointments
- Postdoctoral Research Associate:
Dept. of Computer Science, Brown University, 1992-1994
Publications
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Current Academic Responsibilities
- Academic Coordinator, CS/SE Industry Based Learning program
Research
- Interests:Artificial intelligence. Probabilistic
reasoning. Bayesian networks. Knowledge Engineering. Planning. Plan recognition. User modelling. Evolutionary ethics. Data Mining.
- Research groups
- Centre for Research in Intelligent Systems (Knowledge Discovery Laboratory)
Honours
- (Equal) Best Paper, PRICAI'2000.
- Best Application Paper, UM'99.
- Honourable Mention, AAAI Best Paper Award, 1993.
- Victorian Rhodes Scholarship, 1988.
Personal
- Current sports played: gaelic football.
- Sports played in past: cricket, rugby union, ultimate frisbee.
- Interests: Aussie rules footall, reading, music.
- Family: partner Paul Konstanty, children Robert (born Sept 2001)
and Clare (born March 2004)
Ann Nicholson