Research
My research interests cover both the theory and practice of a number of inter-related areas:
- Artificial General Intelligence, including approximations of AIXI
- Large-scale Machine Learning on Parallel Databases, including work on Apache MADlib
- Declarative Programming Languages, including design and implementation of Escher and Bach
- Privacy Technologies and their applications in anti-money laundering
- Large-scale probabilistic entity resolution, including the PSig algorithm used in combating welfare fraud (see also StellarGraph)
- Probabilistic reasoning in higher-order logic
- Statistical Relational Learning
Biography
I am an associate professor in the Software Innovation Institute.
I have more than 20 years of post-PhD experience in multiple domains, including government (cyber security, anti-money-laundering and counter terrorism financing, service delivery, healthcare fraud), investment banking, retail, telecom, oil and gas (midstream), and manufacturing. I have consulted for many large enterprises in Asia-Pacific-Japan and act as a trusted advisor for many industry colleagues.
I maintain a blog here: http://mentalmodels4life.net
Awards
- $8.7m in R&D funding from the Fintel Alliance Expansion NPP (2019 Australian Government Budget)
- Translational Fellow by ANU (2018)
- Australia Day CEO Award by AUSTRAC (2017)
- IJCAI-JAIR Best Paper Award: Honorable Mention (2014)
- Three $2.56 checks from Emeritus Professor Donald Knuth