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Biography
Geoff Webb is a leading data scientist and AI researcher and the only Australian to have been Program Committee Chair of the two leading Data Mining conferences, ACM SIGKDD and IEEE ICDM. He was elevated to IEEE Fellow in 2015 and his numerous awards include the inaugural Eureka Prize for Excellence in Data Science (2017).
He was editor in chief of Data Mining and Knowledge Discovery from 2005 to 2014. He is a Technical Advisor to BigML Inc, who have incorporated his best of class association discovery software, Magnum Opus, as a core component of their cloud-based Machine Learning service. He developed many of the key mechanisms of support-confidence association discovery in the 1980s. His OPUS search algorithm remains the state-of-the-art in rule search. He pioneered multiple research areas as diverse as black-box user modelling, interactive data analytics and statistically-sound pattern discovery. He has developed many useful machine learning algorithms that are widely deployed.
Research interests
Professor Webb conducts research in both fundamnetal and translational artificial intelligence, machine learning and data science.
His fundamental research encompasses:
- Scalable learning of time series classifiers. more
- Learning From Non-Stationary Distributions. more
- Association Discovery. more
- Scalable learning of Graphical Models. more
- Earth Observation Analytics. more
- Combining Generative and Discriminative Learning. more
- Bayesian Machine Learning. more
- Ensemble Machine Learning. more
- Interactive Machine Learning. more
- Decision tree grafting. more
- Rule learning. more
- Discretization. more
- Feature construction, constructive induction and attribute discovery. more
- Student and User Modeling. more
His fundamental research encompasses:
Supervision interests
Opportunities exists for outstanding Computer Science research candidates to undertake a PhD in the areas of Machine Learning and Data Mining under my supervision. For an indication of potential areas of research see my Research Programs. For application procedures see here.
Expertise related to UN Sustainable Development Goals
In 2015, UN member states agreed to 17 global Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs) to end poverty, protect the planet and ensure prosperity for all. This person’s work contributes towards the following SDG(s):
Education/Academic qualification
Computer Science, Doctor of Philosophy, La Trobe University
Award Date: 1 Nov 1987
Computer Science, Bachelor of Arts (Honours), La Trobe University
Award Date: 1 May 1982
Research area keywords
- Bioinformatics
- Computational Biology
- Data Analytics
- Data Science
- Data mining
- Knowledge Acquisition
- Machine Learning
Collaborations and top research areas from the last five years
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TMLGenAI: Trustworthy Generative AI: Towards Safe and Aligned Foundation Models
Phung, D., Vu, T., Qu, L., Le, T., Haffari, R., Webb, G., Nicholson, A., Ke, Q., Cai, J. & Bui, T.
11/06/24 → 10/07/26
Project: Research
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Efficient and effective methods: Efficient and effective methods for classifying massive time series data
Webb, G., Schmidt, D. & Keogh, E.
1/03/24 → 28/02/27
Project: Research
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Positive allosteric modulation of anti-convulsant G protein-coupled receptor signalling to treat drug-resistant epilepsy
May, L., Webb, G., Carlsson, J., Baltos, J., TN Nguyen, A., Christopoulos, A., Miao, Y., O'Brien, T., Rollo, B., Casillas-Espinosa, P., Gregory, K., Scammells, P. & Nguyen, T.
1/01/22 → 31/12/25
Project: Research
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Net Zero Precincts: an interdisciplinary approach to decarbonising cities
Raven, R., Pink, S., Webb, G., Farrelly, M., Liebman, A., Coxon, S., Graham, P., Quillinan, A. & Cailes, D.
1/09/21 → 31/08/25
Project: Research
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Efficient and Effective Modelling of Protein Structure with Dynamics
Webb, G., May, L. & Whisstock, J.
1/07/25 → 30/06/26
Project: Research
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A Radiograph Dataset for the Classification, Localization, and Segmentation of Primary Bone Tumors
Yao, S., Huang, Y., Wang, X., Zhang, Y., Paixao, I. C., Wang, Z., Chai, C. L., Wang, H., Lu, D., Webb, G. I., Li, S., Guo, Y., Chen, Q. & Song, J., 16 Jan 2025, In: Scientific Data. 12, 1, 10 p., 88.Research output: Contribution to journal › Article › Research › peer-review
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CARLA: Self-supervised contrastive representation learning for time series anomaly detection
Darban, Z. Z., Webb, G. I., Pan, S., Aggarwal, C. C. & Salehi, M., Jan 2025, In: Pattern Recognition. 157, 13 p., 110874.Research output: Contribution to journal › Article › Research › peer-review
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Time series adversarial attacks: an investigation of smooth perturbations and defense approaches
Pialla, G., Ismail Fawaz, H., Devanne, M., Weber, J., Idoumghar, L., Muller, P. A., Bergmeir, C., Schmidt, D. F., Webb, G. I. & Forestier, G., Jan 2025, In: International Journal of Data Science and Analytics. 19, p. 129–139 11 p.Research output: Contribution to journal › Article › Research › peer-review
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Advancing microRNA target site prediction with transformer and base-pairing patterns
Bi, Y., Li, F., Wang, C., Pan, T., Davidovich, C., Webb, G. I. & Song, J., 28 Oct 2024, In: Nucleic Acids Research. 52, 19, p. 11455-11465 11 p., gkae782.Research output: Contribution to journal › Article › Research › peer-review
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A Hands-on Introduction to Time Series Classification and Regression
Bagnall, A., Middlehurst, M., Forestier, G., Ismail-Fawaz, A., Guillaume, A., Guijo-Rubio, D., Tan, C. W., Dempster, A. & Webb, G. I., 2024, Proceedings of the 30th ACM SIGKDD Conference on Knowledge Discovery and Data Mining. Jiang, Z., Li, J. & Zhou, D. (eds.). New York NY USA: Association for Computing Machinery (ACM), p. 6410-6411 2 p.Research output: Chapter in Book/Report/Conference proceeding › Conference Paper › Other
Prizes
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Australasian Artificial Intelligence Distinguished Research Contributions Award
Webb, Geoff (Recipient), 2016
Prize: Prize (including medals and awards)
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Eureka Prize for Excellence in Data Science
Webb, Geoff (Recipient), 2017
Prize: Prize (including medals and awards)
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ICDM-2022 Best Paper Runner-up Award winner
Manapragada, Chait (Recipient), Salehi, Mahsa (Recipient) & Webb, Geoff (Recipient), 2022
Prize: Prize (including medals and awards)
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ICT Researcher of the Year Award
Webb, Geoff (Recipient), 2016
Prize: Prize (including medals and awards)
Activities
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Member - Earth Observation Australia
Geoff Webb (Member)
2018 → …Activity: External Academic Engagement › Professional association or peak discipline body
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Member - American Association for Artificial Intelligence
Geoff Webb (Member)
2016Activity: External Academic Engagement › Professional association or peak discipline body
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Member - IEEE Computer Society
Geoff Webb (Member)
2016Activity: External Academic Engagement › Professional association or peak discipline body
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Fellow - Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers (IEEE)
Geoff Webb (Fellow)
2016Activity: External Academic Engagement › Professional association or peak discipline body
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Member - Faculty Research Committee - Faculty of Information Technology, Monash University
Geoff Webb (Member)
2016Activity: External Academic Engagement › Committees and working groups
Press/Media
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New tool to speed up translation of genome sequences
Jiangning Song, Roger John Daly, Geoffrey Ian Bawtree Webb & Alexander Ian Smith
8/03/18
1 Media contribution
Press/Media: Research