Homepage of Peter Christen

Professor Research School of Computer Science (RSCS) ANU College of Engineering and Computer Science (CECS) The Australian National University (ANU) 0200 Canberra, ACT Australia Email peter.christen@anu.edu.au

Information for students: Please note that I already supervise a large number of PhD students and for the foreseeable future I do not have any capacity for new students. So please do not email me. Please note that the ANU is not offering internships for international students. In semester 2 / 2020 I am teaching: COMP3430 / COMP8430 - Data Wrangling

NEW: Our new book on Linking Sensitive Data has been released by Springer. For more details see our LSD book page. An ANU news article about our book on Linking Sensitive Data, January 2021.             My research interests: Data matching (record linkage, entity resolution). I am interest in computational aspects (scalability and real-time matching), as well as privacy issues in data matching. I have written a book titled Data Matching - Concepts and Techniques for Record Linkage, Entity Resolution, and Duplicate Detection, which has been published by Springer in their Data-Centric Systems and Applications in August 2012. For details (including a PDF file of preface, table of contents, and references) see the data matching book page. Buy the book from Amazon.com (a Kindle version is now available). Data Mining (for an excellent resource on data mining see: www.KDnuggets.com - Analytics, Big Data, and Data Mining Resources). List of my current and past PhD students, and a set of resources with useful information for PhD students. Links: List of my publications and selected presentations. My profile page at Google Scholar. My CV (HTML)

Personal interests: I am a keen scuba diver and member of the ANU Scuba Club. Besides breathing, my main activity under water is taking pictures. And I care: Medecins Sans Frontieres APHEDA Amnesty International Australia Australian Red Cross Australian Marine Conservation Society National Parks Association of NSW Stop Shark Finning GetUp! Zeitgeist