Professor Vladimir Estivill-Castro from Griffith University, Queensland.
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Professor Vlad Estivill-Castro joined Griffith University in 2002 and became Head of Griffith's 3-campus School of Communication and Information Technology in 2003. He is director of the Machine Intelligence and Pattern Analysis Laboratory (Mi-PAL) that has participated in 4 consecutive RoboCup legged league finals and recently in RoboCup@Home. He has been program Chair of the Australasian Computer science Conference in 2004, 2005 and 2006 and of the 2005 International Mexican Computer Society Conference. He is a member of the editorial board for the International Journal of Data Warehousing and Mining and for the Journal of Research and Practice in Information Technology (JRPIT). His current research interest are Algorithmic Engineering, Analysis and Theory of Algorithms, Machine Learning, Data Mining, Spatial data Analysis, Privacy and Human-Robot Interaction.
Professor John Roddick from Flinders University, South Australia.
- Professor Roddick joined Flinders in 2000 as the SACITT Professor of Information Technology and Leader of the Knowledge Discovery and Management Laboratory.
He has been Programme Chair for a number of conferences including the Australasian Database Conference, the International Workshop on Evolution and Change in Data Management, the International Workshop on Temporal, Spatial and Spatio-Temporal Data Mining, the International Symposium on Spatial and Temporal Databases and the Asia-Pacific Conference on Conceptual Modelling. His research interests include data mining and conceptual modelling, particularly as applied to health and defence applications.
He is a Fellow of both the Australian Computer Society and of the Institute of Engineers, Australia.
Professor Simeon Simoff from the University of Western Sydney. Professor Simeon Simoff joined UTS in 2000 and became Leader of the e-Markets Research Group - an international reference lab in the area of intelligent trading technology. Between 2000 and 2005 he was an Associate Editor of the ASCE Journal of Computing in Civil Engineering. He has initiated and co-chaired several well-established now conference series, including the ACM SIGKDD Multimedia Data Mining series, the Visual Data Mining series and the Australiasian Data Mining AusDM series. He is a co-founding Director and Fellow of the Institute of Analytics Professionals of Australia (IAPA). His interdisciplinary scholarship blends unstructured data mining and visual analytics, multimedia virtual environments, and design computing, all in the context of electronic markets.