Current Students
- PhD
- Ga Wu (Wuga), Spatiotemporal Machine Learning for Smart Cities
(Oregon State University, graduates 2018+; primary supervisor)
- Zahra Iman, Learning Social Media Sensors
(Oregon State University, graduates 2018+; primary supervisor)
- Iain Guilliard, Mixed Integer Linear Programming for Transport Optimization
(ANU, graduates 2018; primary supervisor)
- Shamin Kinathil, Sequential Decision-making for Markets
(ANU, graduates 2016; primary supervisor)
- Suvash Sedhain, Social Collaborative Filtering
(ANU, graduates 2016; primary supervisor)
Former Students
- PhD
- Hadi Afshar, Probabilistic Inference in Piecewise Graphical Models
(ANU, submitted 2016; primary supervisor)
- M. Ehsan Abbasnejad, Loss-calibrated Approximate Bayesian Inference
(ANU, submitted 2016; primary supervisor)
- Zahra Zamani, Sequential Decision-making in Continuous Domains
(ANU, graduates 2014; primary supervisor; now a Data Scientist with Telstra)
- Shengbo Guo, Bayesian Recommender Systems: Models and Algorithms
(ANU, graduated 2011; primary supervisor; now a Research Scientist at Yahoo! Research USA)
- Matthew Robards, Kernelized Reinforcement Learning
(ANU, graduated 2012; co-supervised; now an Engineer at NICTA)
- Robby Goetschalckx, Reinforcement Learning with Domain Knowledge
(K.U. Leuven, Belgium, graduated 2009; visiting student; now a Post-doc at Oregon State University)
- Karina Valdivia Delgado, Factored MDPs with Transition Uncertainty
Recipient of Best Brazilian PhD Dissertation on AI, 2008-2010
(Univ. of Sao Paulo, Brazil, graduated 2010; visiting student; now a Professor at the University of Sao Paulo)
- Masters
- Neil Bacon, Continuous MDPs
(ANU, graduated 2008)
- Yue Sun, Visual Search Interfaces
(ANU, graduated 2008)
- Martins Zalcamis, Multiagent Reinforcement Learning
(T.U. Vienna, graduated 2009)
- Lachlan Henderson, Text Classification
(ANU, graduated 2009)
- Lois Vanhee, Multiagent Coalitional Planning
(University of Rennes, France, graduated 2010)
- Oulin Yang, Automated Time and Event Extraction
(ANU, graduated 2011)
- Paul Rivera, Bayesian Hierarchical Reinforcement Learning
(ANU, graduated 2011)
- Mostafa Moghadam, Kernel Bandits
(ANU, graduated 2011)
- Mahmoud Elborawi, Query Expansion
(ANU, graduated 2011)
- Joseph Noel, Social Collaborative Filtering
(ANU, graduated 2011)
- Hendra Gunadi, Nearest Neighbor Methods for High-dimensional Data
(ANU, graduated 2011)
- John You, Bayesian Monte Carlo Tree Search
(ANU, graduated 2012)
- Jiecheng Zhao, Distance Metric Learning
(ANU, graduates 2013)
- Alina Petrova, Social Media Recommendation
(T.U. Dresden, Germany, graduates 2013)
- Xianghui Kong, Decision-theoretic Planning via Boolean Satisfiability
(Peking University, graduates 2013)
- Gary Ge, Natural Language Understanding of Spatial Descriptions
(ANU, graduates 2013)
- Luis Gustavo Rocha Vianna, Efficient Approximation in Decision Diagrams
(University of Sao Paulo, Brazil, graduates 2013)
- Yong Boon Lim, ZDD-based Nearest Neighbor Search
(ANU, graduates 2013)
- Rishabh Mehrotra, Topic Modeling for Microblogs
(BITS Pilani, India, graduates 2013)
- Mona Golestan Far, Term Selection in Patent Search
(ANU, graduated 2015)
- Iain Guilliard, Mixed Integer Linear Programming for Traffic Signal Control
(ANU, graduated 2015)
- Undergrad
- Alex Davies, Lifted Inference in Markov Logic Networks
(ANU, graduated 2009)
- Ian Kilpatrick, Reinforcement Learning with CRFs
(Univ. Melbourne, graduated 2010)
- Sarah Bull, Parody Identification in Text
(ANU, graduated 2010)
- Sotirios Diamand, Factored UCT for MDPs
(ANU, graduated 2010)
- Alex O'Neill, Sentiment Analysis
(ANU, graduated 2010)
- Aaron Defazio, Triple-based Query Answering
(ANU, graduated 2010)
- Daniel Visentin, Auto-relevance Kernel Reinforcement Learning
(ANU, graduated 2011)
- Cheng (Simon) Fang, Factored Real-time Dynamic Programming
(University of Sydney, graduated 2011)
- Carlton Downey, Temporal Difference Bayesian Model Averaging
(Victoria University of Wellington, New Zealand, graduated 2011)
- Arun Neelicattu, Fraud Detection in Financial Time Series
(ANU, graduated 2011)
- Kar Wai Lim, Diversity in Information Retrieval
(ANU, graduated 2011)
- Kin-Hon Chan, Concurrent Factored Planning
(ANU, graduated 2012)
- Aaron Li, GPU-based Algorithms for Topic Modeling
(ANU, graduated 2012)
- Riley Kidd, Affinity-based Social Collaborative Filtering
(ANU, graduated 2012)
- Tan Nguyen, Learning with Piecewise Convex Losses
(ANU, graduated 2012)
- Alan Lee, Efficient XADD Approximation
(U. of Auckland, New Zealand, graduated 2012)
- Rodrigo Santa Cruz, Feature Engineering via Automatic Program Optimization
(U. of Pernambuco, Brazil, graduates 2014)