Updates
- My seminar on good programming practices
- Call for papers: Special Issue of Evolving Systems on Applications of Evolving Connectionist Systems
- A report
on how to
automatically translate blog feeds and post to social media sites
- A PDF of my report on linking blog sites to social media sites. I use this method to connect my blog on computational intelligence to my presences on the social media sites below.
Biography
I grew up in the small town of Waimate in South Canterbury, New Zealand. I received the degree of Bachelor of Science with First Class Honours in Information Science from the University of Otago in 1996, and a PhD degree, with a focus on artificial neural networks, evolutionary algorithms and data mining from the same department in 2004.From 2000 to 2004 I was a senior teaching fellow in the Department of Information Science, University of Otago. As part of my duties I coordinated and taught courses in computational intelligence, data processing and data mining at second, third and fourth year level. Some of the lectures I presented are available here.
From 2004 to 2007 I was a post-doctoral fellow in the National Centre for Advanced Bio-Protection Technologies at Lincoln University, New Zealand. There I developed methods using computational intelligence and data mining to predict the invasiveness of insect pests and crop diseases.
From 2007 to 2009 I was a post-doctoral fellow in the School of Biological Sciences at the University of Sydney, Australia. There I developed methods using computational intelligence and data mining to predict the spatial distribution of the Australian plague locust.
I am currently a research fellow in the Global
Ecology Group at the School
of Earth and
Environmental Sciences at the University
of Adelaide, Australia,
where I am carrying out research in ecological
modelling. I am currently serving as the vice-chair of the IEEE Computational Intelligence
Society's Standards
Committee and Social
Media Subcommittee. I also serve on the CIS University Curricula Subcommittee.
I have written or contributed to more than seventy publications in
international
conferences and journals, in the fields of computational intelligence,
bioinformatics, and ecological informatics / ecological
modelling. I also run a blog
on computational intelligence and a site on evolving connectionist
systems. Much of the software I develop for my research is freely available here.
