People

The Centre for Information Discovery and Data Analytics is made up of the following staff.

Centre directors

Professor Falk Scholer

Research Interests: 
Information Retrieval; Evaluation; User Analytics; Computer Ethics

Professor Zhifeng Bao

Research Interests: Data Management; Data Integration; Data Visualization; Trajectory Data Analytic

Centre deputy director

Dr. Damiano Spina

Research Interests: Information Access and Retrieval; Text Mining; Evaluation

Centre members

Professor Babak Abassi

Research Interests: Stochastic optimisation; Operational decision making; Machine learning

Professor Kerryn Butler-Henderson

Research Interests: Health information storage; health privacy; health analytics

Professor Lawrence Cavedon

Research Interests: Biomedical Text Mining; Spoken Dialogue Interaction

Professor Shane Culpepper

Research Interests: Information Retrieval; Algorithms; Systems; Machine Learning

professor matt duckham

Professor Matt Duckham

Research Interests: Spatial Computing; Geosensor Networks; Location Privacy; Qualitative Spatial Reasoning

Professor Lisa Given

Research Interests: Human information behaviour; user-experience design; technology adoption and use; societal impact; qualitative inquiry

Professor Margaret Hamilton

Research Interests: User experience; fairness and integrity; mobility; computing for social good

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Professor Irene Hudson

Research Interests: Data Integration; Climate Change Analytics; Multivariate Stochastic Systems; Spatio-Temporal Analysis; Artificial Intelligence

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Professor Mahdi Jalili

Research Interests: Network science; Dynamical Systems; Social Network Analysis; Recommender Systems

Professor Kok-Leong Ong

Research Interests: Data analytics and mining, AI and machine learning, automation, and advanced information systems

professor mark sanderson

Professor Mark Sanderson

Research Interests: Information Retrieval; Search Engine Evaluation; Bibliometrics

professor flora salim

Professor Flora Salim

Research Interests: Pervasive, Mobile, Ubiquitous Computing; Context / Behaviour Recognition; Applied Machine Learning; Spatial / Time Series Data Mining

professor lewi stone

Professor Lewi Stone

Research Interests: Data Analytics; Spatial Statistics; Networks; Mathematical Modelling; Dynamics of Epidemics

Professor Asha Rao

Research Interests: Cyber mathematics; Finding patterns in Data

Professor Karin Verspoor

Research Interests: Biomedical Natural Language Processing; Text Mining; Health Data Analytics; Artificial Intelligence in Medicine; Ontologies; Data Quality

Professor Monica Wachowicz 

Research Interests: Streaming Analytics, Edge Computing, Machine Learning on Graphs, TinyML, Geospatial Intelligence

professor jenny zhang

Professor Jenny Zhang

Research Interests: Data Mining; Text Mining; Machine Learning

associate professor jeffrey chan

Associate Professor Jeffrey Chan

Research Interests: Machine Learning; Social Network Analysis; Recommendation; Data Driven Optimisation

Associate Professor Stephen Davis

Research Interests: Complex Networks; Machine Learning; Biometrics; Data Visualisation; Mathematical Modelling

Associate Professor Stelios Georgiou

Research Interests: Experimental designs; Combinatorial design; Data analytics; Error correcting codes

Associate Professor Sonika Tyagi

Research Interests: Machine Learning, Biomedical Text Mining, Digital Health

dr yan wang

Associate Professor Yan Wang

Research Interests: Bayesian Statistics; Spatial Statistics; Regression Analysis; Ecological / Environmental Statistics

Dr. Arathi Arakala

Research Interests: Complex Networks; Online Behaviour Analysis; Biometrics

dr ke deng

Dr. Ke Deng

Research Interests: Pervasive; Mobile; Ubiquitous Computing; Spatiotemporal Data Analysis

Dr. Halil Ali

Research Interests: Information Retrieval; Web Crawlers; Algorithms

dr haydar demirhan

Dr. Haydar Demirhan

Research Interests: Bayesian Modelling; Forecasting; Time Series Modelling; Monte Carlo Simulation

dr haytham fayek

Dr. Haytham Fayek

Research Interests: Machine Learning; Machine Reasoning; Machine Perception

dr amy griffin

Dr. Amy Griffin

Research Interests: Geovisualization; Spatial cognition; Cartographic interfaces; Health Applications

Dr. Estrid He

Research Interests: Machine Learning; Recommender Systems; and Natural Language Processing

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Dr. Danula Hettiachchi

Research Interests: Crowdsourcing; Social Computing; Human-Computer Interaction

dr dana mckay

Dr. Dana McKay

Research interests: Human Information Behaviour; Information Interaction; Information Equity; Privacy; Information for Social Good

Dr. Elham Naghizade

Research Interests: Privacy-Preserving Data Mining; Spatiotemporal / Geotextual Data Analytics

dr yongli ren

Dr. Yongli Ren

Research Interests: Personalisation; Recommender System; Collaborative Filtering; Web Mining Log Analysis

Dr. Mahshid Sadeghpour

Research Interests: Human-Computer Interaction; Privacy-Preserving Machine Learning; Computer Vision

dr lauren l saling

Dr. Lauren L. Saling

Research interests: Cognitive Biases; Human Reasoning; Behavioural Analysis

Dr. Tabinda Sarwar

Research Interests: Health analytics; Data mining; Machine learning; Computational neuroscience

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Dr. Stella Stylianou

Research Interests: Data Analysis and Real Data Modelling; Experimental Designs; Biostatistics

Dr. Laleh Tafakori

Research Interests: Time Series Modelling; Forecasting; Data Modelling

Dr. Sona Taheri

Research Interests: Data mining; Machine learning; Big data analysis; optimization; cybersecurity

dr johanne trippas

Dr. Johanne R. Trippas

Research Interests: Interactive Information Retrieval; Human-Computer Interaction; Dialogue and Conversational Analysis; Health Informatics

Dr. Xiangmin Zhou

Research Interests: Social Network Analysis; Recommender Systems; Multimedia Databases; Query Optimization

Research fellows

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Dr. Luke Gallagher

Research Interests: Information Retrieval

Dr. Shixun Huang

Research Interests: Collective Behaviour; Influence Maximisation; Network Emedding; Data Mining

Dr. Hui Luo

Research Interests: Machine Learning; Spatial Object Recommendation

Dr. Sarah Polkinghorne

Research Interests: Human Information Practices; Embodiment; Information Interaction; Information for Social Good

Dr. Mohammad Saiedur Rahaman

Research Interests: Sensing Technologies; Context / Behaviour Recognition; Machine Learning

Former members

  • Alysha De Livera
  • Sevvandi Kandanaarachchi
  • Vural Akskalli
  • Stan Karanasios
  • Jasbir Dhaliwal

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Acknowledgement of Country

RMIT University acknowledges the people of the Woi wurrung and Boon wurrung language groups of the eastern Kulin Nation on whose unceded lands we conduct the business of the University. RMIT University respectfully acknowledges their Ancestors and Elders, past and present. RMIT also acknowledges the Traditional Custodians and their Ancestors of the lands and waters across Australia where we conduct our business - Artwork 'Luwaytini' by Mark Cleaver, Palawa.

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Acknowledgement of Country

RMIT University acknowledges the people of the Woi wurrung and Boon wurrung language groups of the eastern Kulin Nation on whose unceded lands we conduct the business of the University. RMIT University respectfully acknowledges their Ancestors and Elders, past and present. RMIT also acknowledges the Traditional Custodians and their Ancestors of the lands and waters across Australia where we conduct our business.