Geoff Webb: Biographical Data

APPOINTMENTS

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 :
  • Data Mining and Knowledge Discovery, Springer (2005 - )
    This is the highest impact journal specifically focused on data mining.
• Co-Editor :
  • Encyclopedia of Machine Learning, Springer.
• 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)
• General Co-Chair, IEEE International Conference on Data Mining (ICDM 2012)
• 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 ICDM-2010
• 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)