Melbourne School of Engineering Australasian Database Conference

Invited Speaker: Yufei Tao

Yufei Tao is a full professor in the Department of Computer Science and Engineering, Chinese University of Hong Kong (CUHK). Before joining CUHK in 2006, he was a Visiting Scientist at the Carnegie Mellon University during 2002-2003, and an Assistant Professor at the City University of Hong Kong during 2003-2006. He received a Hong Kong Young Scientist Award in 2002 from the Hong Kong Institution of Science. He regularly serves the programming committees of SIGMOD, VLDB, ICDE, and is currently an associate editor of ACM Transactions on Database Systems (TODS). He was the PC chair of the demonstration track in SIGMOD 2010, a PC co-chair of International Symposium on Spatial and Temporal Databases (SSTD) 2011, an area PC chair of ICDE 2011, and a senior PC member of International Conference of Information and Knowledge (CIKM) 2010, 2011. His current research interests focus on algorithms with non-trivial theoretical guarantees, particularly those dealing with massive datasets that do not fit in memory.

Invited Speaker:   Hua Wang

Hua Wang is a professor in computer science at the University of Southern Queensland. Professor Wang was awarded a PhD degree in Computer Science from the University of Southern Queensland in 2004. He has been active in various areas such as database, data mining, security and privacy, access control, Software Engineering and Electronic Commerce. He has participated in research projects on mobile electronic system, web service, and role-based access control for Electronic service system, privacy preserving in data mining, and has already published over 100 research papers. Hua has received three large ARC discovery grants since 2006.

Hua is the co-editor-in-chief for ICST Transaction on Scalable Information Systems and is an editor of the special issue for the Computer Journal as well as an Editorial Board Member of The Open Cybernetics and Systemics Journal. He is also a member of the Australian Research Council Network in Enterprise Information Infrastructure.

Invited Speaker:   Geoff Webb

Geoff Webb is a Professor of Information Technology Research in the Faculty of Information Technology at Monash University, where he heads the Centre for Research in Intelligent Systems. Prior to Monash he held appointments at Griffith University and then Deakin University, where he received a personal chair. His primary research areas are machine learning, data mining, and user modelling. He is known for his contribution to the debate about the application of Occam's razor in machine learning and for the development of numerous methods, algorithms and techniques for machine learning, data mining and user modelling.

His commercial data mining software, Magnum Opus, incorporates many techniques from his association discovery research. Many of his learning algorithms are included in the widely-used Weka machine learning workbench. He is editor-in-chief of Data Mining and Knowledge Discovery, co-editor of the Springer Encyclopedia of Machine Learning, a member of the advisory board of Statistical Analysis and Data Mining and a member of the editorial boards of Machine Learning and ACM Transactions on Knowledge Discovery in Data.

ACM SIGSPATIAL Australian Chapter Special Workshop: Geographical/Spatial Data Management and Analysis

This special workshop collocated with ADC 2012 will have exclusively invited talks given by experts in the area of geographical/spatial data management and analysis. This is a unique chance for learning the state-of-the-art of this area.

A poster competition with a total price of $1000 will follow the invited talks. ADC 2012 attendees can put up posters regarding their research. A total of six prizes will be given: 1st prize $400, 2nd price $150 X 2, 3nd price $100 X 3.

All ADC 2012 attendees can attend this workshop for free!