Adjunct Position and Professional Memberships
Steering Committee Member of the Australasian Data Mining Conference (AusDM)
Secretary of the ACM SIGKDD ANZ Chapter
Chair of the Computer Society of the IEEE ACT Section, 2019-2020, 2023.
Senior Member of the IEEE, since 2013
Member of the ACM
Group Organization
Founder and manger of the RDataMining LinkedIn Group (29,000+ members)
Manager of the AusDM LinkedIn Group (500+ members)
Founder and organizer of the Canberra Data Scientist Meetup Group (800+ members)
Conference/Workshop Organisation
Chair of the ICDM 2023 Workshop on Causal and Explainable AI (CXAI 2023)
Chair of Computer Track of the IEEE TENSYMP 2023 Conference
Conference Chair of the Australasian Data Mining Conference (AusDM) 2021-2022 and Program Chair of AusDM 2012-2016 & 2018-2020
Treasurer of the IEEE International Conference on Data Science and Advanced Analytics (DSAA 2020)
Exhibit & Demo Co-Chair of the ACM SIGKDD 2015
Organizing Committee member of the International Conference on Big Data Analysis and Data Mining (Data Mining 2015)
Program Chair of the International Workshop on Data Mining Applications in Industry & Government (DMApps 2013), in conjunction with PAKDD 2013
Chair of the International Workshop on Domain Driven Data Mining (DDDM'07, DDDM'08, DDDM'09), in conjunction respectively with KDD'07, ICDM'08 and ICDM'09
Assessor/Editorial Board Member
An assessor for the Australian Research Council (ARC), since 2011
A member of the Advisory Board of the Machine Learning for Social Good Centre at the University of Auckland, New Zealand.
A member of the IGI Global's Editorial Advisory Review Board, since 2008
A member of the IARIA Data Analytics Advisory Committee
A member of the Advisory Board of the International Journal of Advanced Computer Research (IJACR), since 2012
A member of the Editorial Board of the International Journal of Data Mining, Modelling and Management (IJDMMM), since 2009
A member of the Editorial Board of Advances in Analytics, since 2014
Guest Editor of the Australasian Journal of Information Systems (AJIS)
Guest Editor of the Journal of Research and Practice in Information Technology (JRPIT)
Invited Talks, Keynotes and Short Courses
Invited talk on a Framework for Semi-Automated Database Schema Matching, Clean Energy Regulator (CER), Canberra, 2 Nov 2022.
A short course on R and Data Mining at CSIRO, Canberra, Australia, December 2018, March 2019, November 2019 and March 2020,
Invited talk at the Emerging Technology Interest Groups (ETIG) seminar at UniSA, Adelaide, Australia, 11 February 2020,
Invited talk at the Beijing University of Posts and Telecommunications, Beijing, China, 12 July 2019,
Invited talk at the Nanjing University of Science and Technology, Nanjing, China, 11 January 2019,
Tutorial on R and Data Mining at the AusDM 2018 Conference, Charles Sturt University, Bathurst, Australia, 29 November 2018,
Invited talk at the Department of Social Services (DSS), Canberra, Australia, 31 October 2018,
Invited talk on Data Mining and Analytics - Techniques and Case Studies, Australian National Auditing Office (ANAO), Canberra, Australia, 30 October 2018,
Invited talk at the Melbourne Business Analytics Conference, the Melbourne Business School, the University of Melbourne, Melbourne, 13 July 2017
Tutorials on Machine Learning with R, the Melbourne Data Science Week, Melbourne, 29 May - 2 June 2017
Invited talk on Hadoop, Spark and R, the La Trobe EoY Analytics Symposium, La Trobe University, Melbourne, 17 November 2016
The R and Data Mining Short Course, University of Canberra, 7 October 2016
Machine Learning 102 Workshop for the Big Data and Analytics course, the S P Jain School of Global Management, Mumbai, India, 30 May - 5 June 2016
Invited talk on Twitter Data Analysis with R at the Making Data Analysis Easier Workshop Organised by the Monash Business Analytics Team (WOMBAT), Monash University, Melbourne, 18-19 Feb 2016
R and Data Mining workshop for the course of Master of Business Analytics, Deakin University, Melbourne, 28 May 2015
Invited talk at the Statistical Modelling and Computing Workshop, Geoscience Australia, 8 May 2015
Half-day workshop on R and Data Mining, at AusDM 2014, Brisbane, Australia, November 2014
Association Rules Mining and Classification with R, Australian Customs and Border Protection Service, Canberra, Australia, October 2014,
Introduction to Data Mining with R, Twitter, San Francisco, US, October 2014
Association Rule Mining and Text Mining with R, Amazon, Seattle, US, October 2014
Keynote speech on Analysing Twitter Data with Text Mining and Social Network Analysis at the CONAIS 2014, Mexico, October 2014
One-day workshop on Data Mining with R, Universidad Juárez Autónoma de Tabasco (UJAT), Mexico, September 2014
Introduction to Data Mining with R, University of Canberra, Australia, September 2013
Time Series Analysis and Mining with R, Canberra R Users Group, Canberra, Australia, July 2011
Program Committee Member
The AAAI Conference on Artificial Intelligence (AAAI 2017-2022)
The International Joint Conference on Artificial Intelligence (IJCAI 2018-2020)
The Pacific-Asia Conference on Knowledge Discovery and Data Mining (PAKDD 2018-2023)
The ACM International Conference on Information and Knowledge Management (CIKM 2020-2023)
The Pacific Rim International Conferences on Artificial Intelligence (PRICAI 2010-2022)
The IEEE International Conference on Data Science and Advanced Analytics (DSAA 2020-2022)
The ACM SIGKDD Conference on Knowledge Discovery and Data Mining (KDD 2015-2016, 2022-2023)
The European Conference on Machine Learning and Principles and Practice of Knowledge Discovery in Databases (ECML-PKDD 2015-2018, 2023)
The International Conference on Database and Expert Systems Applications (DEXA 2009-2018)
The IEEE/WIC/ACM International Conference on Web Intelligence (WI 2008-2014, 2016, 2018, 2022)
The IFIP International Conference on Intelligent Information Processing (IIP 2016, IIP 2018)
The Australian Joint Conference on Artificial Intelligence (AI 2005-2006, 2008-2011, 2016-2017)
The Australasian Data Mining Conference (AusDM 2007-2011, 2017)
The International Conference on Data Analytics (Data Analytics 2013-2018)
The IEEE International Conference on Tools with Artificial Intelligence (ICTAI 2011, 2014-2015)
The IFIP International Conference on Artificial Intelligence in Theory and Practice (AITP 2015)
The IEEE/ACM International Conference on Advances in Social Network Analysis and Mining (ASONAM 2014)
The 2009 Joint International Conferences on Asia-Pacific Web Conference and Web-Age Information Management (APWeb-WAIM 2009)
Reviewer for Journals
IEEE Transactions on Knowledge and Data Engineering
Data Mining and Knowledge Discovery
Knowledge and Information Systems
Journal of Statistical Software
World Wide Web Journal
International Journal on Data Science and Analytics
The R Journal
Information Sciences
Frontiers in Big Data
IEEE Transactions on Systems, Man and Cybernetics
IEEE Transactions on Automation Science and Engineering
IEEE Internet Computing
Neurocomputing
Language Resources and Evaluation
International Journal of Software and Informatics
International Journal of Pattern Recognition and Artificial Intelligence
The Web Intelligence Journal
Web Intelligence and Agent Systems
Journal of Research and Practice in Information Technology