
Research Fellow at ANU
Australian Capital Territory, Australia

Research Fellow at ANU
Australian Capital Territory, Australia
I have experience with both theoretical and practical aspects of symbolic and statistical machine learning as well as experience with commercial software development and research. I also have designed and implemented several web applications.
machine learning, statistics, experimental design, software engineering, web development
(Educational Institution; Research industry)
August 2007 — Present (1 year 2 months)
(Privately Held; 201-500 employees; Research industry)
March 2007 — August 2007 (6 months)
(Music industry)
October 2006 — July 2007 (10 months)
Redesigned and migrated the FBI supporter database and provided a web front-end for administration.
(Research industry)
August 2005 — February 2007 (1 year 7 months)
(Computer Software industry)
July 2004 — March 2005 (9 months)
As a part-time research officer I developed a user interface for a handheld device as part of a technology demonstration for a mobile communications project. I also added some extensions to a Java messaging framework and audited it for J2ME compliance.
(Computer Software industry)
2001 — 2003 (2 years)
During my part-time work at Proxima I developed various aspects of the company's flagship product: Centauri, an IT services monitoring and reporting tool. This included: researching machine learning approaches to predicting service faults; implementing a parser and interpreter for a language expressing service contracts; creating tools for automated building, testing and packaging; and instigating the use of a wiki for improved developer communication.
(Public Company; Research industry)
2001 — 2001 (less than a year)
IBM's Co-Op program employs postgraduate students to work full-time under a mentor on one of their research projects. My work on a text-mining project resulted in a system which could build skill profiles for employees by analysing the collections of unstructured text documents they view or author.
(Educational Institution; Higher Education industry)
February 1998 — February 2001 (3 years 1 month)
My duties as a Resident Academic Staff member included: the personal and academic and support and development of College residents, liaising with University management, advising College management, participating in and developing the College social and cultural program and giving course and careers advice to residents.
PhD, Computer Science, Machine Learning, 1997 — 2006
Thesis: "DEFT Guessing: Using Inductive Transfer to Improve Rule Evaluation from Limited Data"
BSc (Hons), Pure Mathematics with Computing, 1993 — 1996
Thesis: "Harmonic Measure on Radially Slit Disks"