Professional Activities

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