James Bailey

Associate Professor and Reader	Assistant Dean (Research Training)
Dept. of Computer Science and Software Engineering	Melbourne School of Engineering
The University of Melbourne

Contact

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Phone: +61 3 8344 1319
Fax: +61 3 9348 1184
Postal: Dept. of Computer Science and Software Engineering, The University of Melbourne, Victoria 3010, Australia.
Face to face: Room 4.21, ICT Building, 111 Barry Street, Carlton 3053

Research Interests

Data mining and machine learning
Bioinformatics
Health Informatics
Database systems, XML and computation on the World Wide Web

Publications and Activities

List of publications
Tutorial on "Contrast Data Mining: Methods and Applications" at the 2007 IEEE Conference on Data Mining (ICDM).
Awards
- Best Paper Award at 2005 IEEE Conference on Data Mining (ICDM).
- Best Paper Award at the 3rd IAPR International Conference on BioInformatics ( PRIB 2008)

Recent Research Funding

Comparative analysis and exploration of collections of data clusterings. ARC Discovery Grant 2008-2010.
SeqSeeker: a search engine for large numbers of very long sequences. ARC Discovery Grant 2008-2010.
Transaction Oriented Computational Models for Multi Agent Systems. ARC Discovery Grant 2003-2007.

Research Students I Supervise or Co-supervise

Bader Nasser Aljaber: PhD student working on text data mining.
Rajkumar Gaire: PhD student working in bioinformatics.
Henry Gasko: Knowledge discovery techniques for understanding diabetes
Andrey Kan: PhD student working on spatio-temporal data mining.
Mei Ma: Masters student working on time series indexing.
Geoffrey MacIntyre: PhD student working in bioinformatics.
Jan Schroder: PhD student working in bioinformatics.
Lei Zhang: Research Masters student working in bioinformatics and sequence analysis.

A list of completed students is here.

Professional Activities

Editorial Board, International Journal of Machine Learning and Cybernetics.
Area Chair for the 15th International Conference on Database Systems for Advanced Applications (DASFAA) 2010.
Area Chair for the 2009 SIAM International Conference on Data Mining (SDM)
Best Paper Awards Committee member for the 2009 IEEE Conference on Data Mining (ICDM)
Publicity chair for the 14th International Conference on Database Systems for Advanced Applications (DASFAA 2009), April 2009, Brisbane, Australia.
Co-PC chair of the 7th International Conference on Web Information Systems Engineering (WISE 2008)
Co-PC chair of the Eighteenth Australasian Database Conference (ADC 2007, ADC 2006)
Co-PC Chair of the Workshop on Principles and Practice of Semantic Web Reasoning 2006

PC member for
- KDD 2010, ICDM 2010, SDM 2010, DASFAA 2010, APWeb 2010, WAIM 2010, DEXA 2010, EDOC 2010
- ICDM 2009, VLDB 2009, SDM 2009, CIKM 2009, CEC 2009, ADC 2009, APWeb/WAIM 2009, ADMA 2009, WISE 2009, ADC 2009, DEXA 2009, AI 2009, COMAD 2009
- PRIB 2008, APWEB 2008, DASFAA 2008, DEXA'08, EDOC 2008, ADMA 2008, IDEAS 2008, AI 2008, WAIM 2008, ADC 2008
- VLDB 2007, DASFAA 2007, APWEB/WAIM 2007, EDOC 2007, ADMA 2007, IDEAS 2007
- ICDM 2006, APWeb 2006, AI 2006, SASEMAS 2006, WAIM 2006, EDOC 2006, XRA 2006

Teaching in 2010

Administration in 2010

Assistant Dean (Research Training), Melbourne School of Engineering
Member of University Graduate Research Scholarships Committee.
Member of University IT Council.

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