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 Phone +61 2 612 55690 Fax +61 2 612 50010 Office N322 in the Computer Science and Information Technology (CSIT) building (#108)

Information for students: Please note that the ANU is not offering internships for international students. Important information for prospective PhD students My PhD, Honours and summer research projects In semester 1 / 2017 I am teaching: COMP8430 - Data Wrangling (an new intensive course only for students of the Applied Data Analytics postgraduate programs).

NEW: We have set-up a forum for anything about data linkage (named DLforum). We like this to become a multi-disciplinary forum for the data linkage community, and we encourage anybody interested in this topic to distribute the link to the DLforum to students and colleagues, and link it into from their homepages or resource pages. We also encourage everybody to post any announcements such as new papers on data linkage, conferences, data sets, software etc. or any general or specific questions.             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 (especially privacy-preserving data mining and social network 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