Education:
- Doctor of Philosophy
Department of Computer Science, University of Basel, Switzerland,
September 1995 - February 1999.
Dissertation: A Parallel Iterative Linear System Solver with
Dynamic Load Balancing.
Advisors: Prof. Dr. Christian Ullrich and
Prof. Dr. Clemens Cap
Summary
- Diploma in Computer Science Engineering
(Master of Science)
Department of Computer Science, Eidgenössische Technische
Hochschule (ETH) Zürich, Switzerland,
October 1988 - July 1995.
Thesis: Test- und Diagnosesoftware für Alpha7
(in German).
(Test- and diagnose software for Alpha7)
Advisor: Prof. Dr. Anton Gunzinger
Employment:
- Professor
Research School of Computer Science,
Australian National University, Canberra, Australia,
January 2016 - today.
- Associate Professor
Research School of Computer Science,
Australian National University, Canberra, Australia,
January 2013 - December 2015.
- Senior Lecturer
School/Department of Computer Science,
Australian National University, Canberra, Australia,
January 2007 - December 2012.
- Associate Dean (HDR) (Higher Degree Research)
ANU College of Engineering and Computer Science,
Australian National University, Canberra, Australia,
July 2009 - June 2011.
- Graduate Studies Field Convener, Computer Science
Research School/Department of Computer Science,
Australian National University, Canberra, Australia,
April 2008 - August 2009.
- Lecturer/Researcher
Department of Computer Science, FEIT,
Australian National University, Canberra, Australia,
January 2001 - December 2006.
- Postdoc Researcher
Computer Sciences Laboratory, RSISE,
Australian National University, Canberra, Australia,
October 1999 - December 2000.
Funded by grants from the Swiss National Science Foundation
(SNF) and the Novartis Stiftung, vormals
Ciba-Geigy-Jubiläums-Stiftung.
- Lecturer in Technical Computer Science II
Department of Computer Science, University of Basel, Switzerland,
April 1999 - July 1999.
- Teaching and Research Assistant
Department of Computer Science, University of Basel, Switzerland,
September 1995 - March 1999.
- Industrial internship
Basler Insurance Company, Basel, Switzerland,
April 1992 - July 1992.
Publications:
- Click here to see my publications list.
- My H-Index is 47 (27 April 2022).
According to Google Scholar, my work has attracted 13,871 citations
(8,145 since 2017) as of 27 April 2022.
- For more details see my profile page at
Google Scholar.
Grants and Awards:
- Simons
Foundation Fellowship at the Isaac Newton Institute for Mathematical Sciences, University
of Cambridge, UK. July to December 2016.
- 2015: Chief investigator for ARC Discovery Project DP160101934
"Creating the social genome: Advanced techniques for linking dynamic data",
2016 to 2018.
- Best Student Paper Award for
Context-Aware Detection of Sneaky Vandalism on Wikipedia Across
Multiple Languages.
Khoi-Nguyen Tran, Peter Christen, Scott Sanner and Lexing Xie.
Pacific-Asia Conference on Knowledge Discovery and Data Mining
(PAKDD), Ho Chi Minh City, May 2015.
- Senior Fellow with the
Higher Education Academy
(SFHEA), October 2014.
- 2014: Received the
Vice-Chancellor's Award for Excellence in Supervision.
- 2013: Received the
Dean's Award for Teaching Excellence, and
the Dean's Award for Excellence in Supervision
- 2013: Co-investigator for the Administrative Data Research Centre
- Scotland; UK Economic and Social Research Council, 2013 to
2018.
- 2012: Chief investigator for ARC Discovery Project DP130101801
"Privacy preserving record linkage on multiple large databases",
2012 to 2016.
- 2012: Received a ANU 2012 Top Supervisor Award for excellence in
research supervision.
- 2011: Received a ANU 2011 Top Supervisor Award for excellence in
research supervision.
- 2010: Principle investigator for Google Research Award
"Preference Elicitation for Social Recommendation", 2010 to 2011.
- 2010: Chief investigator for ARC Linkage Project LP100200079
"Exposing the Anonymous Attacker: Detecting Identity Crimes using
Real-Time Entity Resolution on Large Dynamic Databases" with
industry partners
Veda and
Funnelback,
2010 to 2013.
- 2007: Principal investigator for the ANU Faculty of Engineering
and Information Technology (FEIT) Faculty Research Grant Scheme
(FRS) RG82/2008 "Secure data mining and data matching computing
platform".
- 2004: Chief investigator for the
NSW Department of
Health collaborative project "Research into Record Linkage to
Geocoding of Addresses using Geocoded National Address Files",
2004 to 2005.
- 2003: Chief investigator for ARC Linkage Project LP0453463
"Investigation and Development of Parallel Large Scale Record
Linkage Techniques" with industry partner
NSW Department of
Health, 2004 to 2006.
- 2002: Principal investigator for the AICS #1-2001
(ANU-Industry Collaboration Scheme) start-up grant
"Parallel Techniques for High-Performance Record Linkage
Techniques", funded by the Australian National University (ANU)
and the
NSW Department of
Health, 2002 to 2003.
Professional Activities:
- Co-organiser for the programme
Data Linkage and
Anonymisation to be held at the Isaac Newton Institute for
Mathematical Sciences at the University of Cambridge, UK.
- Co-organiser for the workshop
Data Integration and Applications (DINA'15), held at
IEEE ICDM, Atlantic City, November 2015.
- Principle organiser of the workshop
Population
Informatics for Big Data (PopInfo'15), held at
ACM KDD, Sydney,
August 2015.
- Co-organiser for the workshop
Data Integration and Applications (DINA'14), held at
IEEE ICDM, Shenzhen, December 2014.
- Conference Co-Chair and Steering Committee member for the
Australasian Data Mining Conference (AusDM), Canberra,
November 2013.
- Since 2006: Member of the steering committee of the AusDM
conference series.
- Co-organiser of the Open Source in Data Mining workshop, held at
PAKDD, 2009.
- Since 2012: Senior program committee for PAKDD.
- Program committee for IEEE Big Data, 2013; ACM SIGKDD, 2013 to
2015; IEEE ICDM 2014 and 2015; VLDB, 2012; plus over twenty
workshops held at top tier conferences over the past ten years.
- Reviewer for many top tier journals, including Elsevier
Information Systems; International Journal of Information Fusion;
Annals of Applied Statistics; IEEE Transactions on Knowledge and
Data Engineering; Springer Data Mining and Knowledge Discovery;
Springer Statistics and Computing; Elsevier Data and Knowledge
Engineering; ACM Journal of Data and Information Quality;
Springer Information Retrieval; Journal of the American Medical
Informatics Association; International Journal of Health
Geographics; SIAM Journal of Scientific Computing; as well as
several book proposals.
- 2014: Reviewer for the Canadian Research Council and the US
National Science Foundation.
- 2012: Peer Reviewer for the ARC Excellence in Research for
Australia.
- Since 2010: International Reader for the Australian Research
Council (ARC).
- PhD thesis examiner Monash University, 2015.
- PhD thesis examiner University of Leipzig, 2014.
- PhD thesis examiner Leiden University, 2014.
- PhD thesis examiner Queensland University of Technology, 2013.
- MSc thesis examiner University of Canberra, 2011.
- PhD thesis examiner University of Sydney, 2011.
Graduated Research Students:
- Dr Banda
Ramadan (PhD, 2016)
- Dr Khoi-Nguyen
Tran (PhD, 2015)
- Dr Charith
Perera (PhD, 2015)
- Dr Minkyoung Kim (PhD, 2015)
- Dr Dinusha
Vatsalan (PhD, 2014)
- Dr Zhichun (Sally) Fu (PhD, 2014)
- Dr Warren Armstrong (PhD, 2012)
- Dr Paul Thomas (PhD, 2008)
- Mr Zhen Yang (MPhil, 2008)
- Mr Irwan Krisna (MComp Honours, 2009)
- Mr Agus Pudjijono (MComp Honours, 2008)
- Mr Xiaoyu Huang (MComp Honours, 2008)
- Mr Ying Hua Zheng (CS Honours, 2007)
- Mr Daniel Belacic (CS Honours, 2005)
- Mr Puthick Hok (CS Honours, 2004)
- Mr Justin Xi Zhu (CS Honours, 2002)
- Ms Julia Lovell (CS Honours, 2001)
Membership:
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