Personal Information

I’m a very happily married thirty-something year old self-confessed maths and computer geek who enjoys the odd bit of snowboarding, rock-climbing, juggling, guitar playing and hiking.

Biography

I was born and bred in Darwin, at the “top-end” of Australia, where I finished high-school before moving to Sydney to complete an honours degree in pure mathematics and computer science at the University of New South Wales in 1996.

After graduating I continued on at UNSW, completing a PhD in machine learning at the School of Computer Science and Engineering in 2006. My research resulted in a new technique for inductive transfer for relational rule learning. During my candidature I moved to New York to work as an intern at IBM’s T. J. Watson Research Center in 2001 on an application of transfer learning in a text-mining domain.

Upon returning to Sydney, I worked to complete my PhD while working in a series of part-time and full-time jobs. From 2001 to 2003 I was a part-time programmer for Proxima Technology (which was acquired by Compuware in 2007) followed by a 9 month stint as a researcher/programmer with the Smart Internet Technology CRC. In 2005 I started full-time work at Canon Information Systems Research Australia (CISRA) as a research engineer where I worked with some great people applying machine learning techniques to a variety of commercial problems.

I (finally) completed my PhD in 2006, after which I took up my current position as a post-doc in 2007 as part of the Statistical Machine Learning group at the Australian National University in Canberra.

Elsewhere

If, after getting through all that, you’re still want to know more about me you could visit my personal website and blog, have a look at some photos, listen to some of my music, scrounge through my bookmarks, some of my books, or have a look at my CV.