
NEWS
– Nov 2016: I won the Discovery Early Career Researcher Award (DECRA) fellowship from the Australian Research Council, totalling $360,000.
– May 2016: SIG-KDD paper on tensor factorization accepted
Research Interests
- Data mining & Machine learning:
- Deep learning
- Adversarial machine learning
- Bayesian networks, dynamic Bayesian networks
- Clustering, feature selection, outlier detection and explanation, non-negative matrix and tensor factorization
- Information theoretic approaches for machine learning
- Big urban data and smart city
- Bioinformatics:
- Gene regulatory network modeling
- Microarray data analysis
- Applied optimization: convex and non-convex optimization, discrete global optimization, evolutionary computation
Professional activities:
– Peer reviewer for the Australian Research Council (ERA 2012, DP 2017).
– External expert assessor for the Romanian National Research Council (2011, 2012, 2016).
– Member of the Association for the Advancement of Artificial Intelligence (AAAI).
– Program committee member for:
- AAAI’18, PAKDD’18
- AAAI’17, SDM’17
- NIPS’16, KDD’16, SDM’16, AAAI’16, ICDM’16, ICPR’16, ACML’16, PAKDD’16, ACIIDS’16
- SIG KDD’15, AAAI’15, SDM’15, IEEE ICDM’15, IEEE ISSNIP’15, PAKDD 2015, ACML’2015
- AAAI’14, ACML’ 14, PAKDD’14, ICPR’14, ICONIP’14, CSoNet’14
- IEEE ICDM’13, EMBC’13, Aus-AI’13, ICONIP’13
- IEEE ICDM’12, EMBC’12, Aus-AI’12, ICPR’12, PAKDD’12, ACIIDS’12, ICONIP’12
- IEEE ICDM’11, ICONIP’11, ACIIDS’11
- IEEE Transactions on Knowledge and Data Engineering, 2014, 2015
- IEEE Transactions on Neural Networks and Learning Systems, 2014
- Gene (Elsevier) 2014
- Transactions on Knowledge Discovery from Data (ACM), 2013, 2014, 2015
- The Journal of Machine Learning Research (MIT press), 2013, 2016
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Pattern recognition (Elsevier), 2013
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International journal of data mining and bioinformatics (Inderscience), 2012
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Bioinformatics (Oxford University Press), 2012
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Neurocomputing (Elsevier), 2012, 2013, 2015
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Journal of Classification (Springer), 2012
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International Journal of Machine Learning and Cybernetics (Springer), 2011
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Evolutionary Bioinformatics (Libertas Academica), 2013
- Knowledge and Information Systems (Springer), 2012, 2013
- Eurasip Journal on Bioinformatics and Systems Biology, 2015
Funding
– Australian Research Council Discovery Early Career Researcher Award (DECRA) valued at A$360,000
– UniMelb ECR grant, Next Generation Association Measures for Big Metropolitan Data, Sole CI, 2015-2016, $40K
– Amazon Education Research Grant, 2014
– NVIDIA Hardware Grant (K40c GPU)
Teaching
– COMP90051: Statistical and Evolutionary Learning (S2, 2014, Co-Lecturer)
– COMP30024: Artificial Intelligence (S1, 2015, Guest-Lecturer)
– COMP90049: Knowledge Technologies (S2, 2015, Guest-Lecturer)
– COMP20008: Elements of Data Processing (S1, 2016, Guest-Lecturer)