Geoff Webb: Biographical Data

APPOINTMENTS

2008 -	Director, Centre for Research in Intelligent Systems, Monash Unviersity.
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 7th Australasian Data Mining Conference (AusDM 2008), Adelaide, December 2008
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

Software

My data mining software, Magnum Opus is widely used internationally including by a number of Fortune 500 companies as well as in scientific applications .
My machine learning software, is widely used. AODE has received particular uptake. In addition to my group's implementation in Weka, it is also included as a component in Rapid Miner. The following recent papers present applications of AODE.

F. Birzele, & S. Kramer (2006) A new representation for protein secondary structure prediction based on frequent patterns, Bioinformatics. 22(21): 2628
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.
L. De Ferrari.(2005) Mining housekeeping genes with a naïve Bayes classifier. MSc Thesis, University of Edinburgh, School of Informatics.
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.
A.L. Eduardo, E. Iakes, G. Beatriz, V. Alfonso, & J. David, (2008) EcID. A database for the inference of functional interactions in E. coli. Nucleic Acids Research.
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.
K. Flikka, L. Martens, J. Vandekerckhove, K. Gevaert, and I. Eidhammeri (2006)Improving the Reliability and Throughput of Mass Spectrometry-based Proteomics by Spectrum Quality Filtering. Proteomics . 6(7): 2086-2094.

B. Garcia, R. Aler, A. Ledezma, & A. Sanchis (2008) Protein-protein Functional Association Prediction Using Genetic Programming. Proceedings of the Tenth Annual Conference on Genetic and Evolutionary Computation. pp. 347-348.

K. Hunt (2006) Evaluation of novel algorithms to optimize Risk Stratification Scores in Myocardial Infarction. Diploma Thesis University of Zurich, Department of Informatics.

DJ Kurz, A. Bernstein, K. Hunt, D. Radovanovic, P. Erne, Z. Siudak, & O. Bertel, (2009) Simple point-of-care risk stratification in acute coronary syndromes: the AMIS model. British Medical Journal . 95(8): 662.

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.

Q.P. Lau, W. Hsu, M.L. Lee, Y. Mao, & L.Chen, (2007) Prediction of Cerebral Aneurysm Rupture. Proceedings of the 19th IEEE International Conference on Tools with Artificial Intelligence. pp. 350-357.

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.

Z. Orhan & Z. Altan (2006) Impact of Feature Selection for Corpus-Based WSD in Turkish. Proceedings of the fifth Mexican International Conference on Artificial Intelligence. pp. 868-878.

M. Simpson, D. Demner-Fushman, C. Sneiderman, S.K. Antani, & G.R. Thoma, (2009) Using Non-Lexical Features to Identify Effective Indexing Terms for Biomedical Illustrations. Proceedings of the 12th Conference of the European Chapter of the ACL (EACL 2009). pp. 737-744.

H. Wang, J. Klinginsmith, X. Dong, A.C. Lee, R. Guha, Y. Wu, G.M. Crippen, & D.J. Wild, D.J (2007) Chemical Data Mining of the NCI Human Tumor Cell Line Database. Journal of Chemical Information and Modeling. 47(6): 2063-2076.

External Consultancies

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

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