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Personal profile
Biography
Maria Garcia de la Banda is a Professor at the Faculty of Information Technology with more than 25 years of experience as an academic. She is currently a member of the ARC College of Experts, the Co-Chair of the Monash-Woodside FutureLab and until July 2022 the Deputy Dean Research of the Faculty. Prior to that she was overall Deputy Dean of the Faculty (2013-2016) and the Head of the Caulfield School of Information Technology (2009-2011). Her research interests include Combinatorial Optimisation, Program analysis and Transformation, Declarative Programming Languages and Bioinformatics. Since 2010 she has been Area Editor of the Journal of Theory and Practice of Logic Programming, and since 2019 member of the Editorial Board of the Constraints journal. She has attracted more than $20M in industry funding and $14M in nationally competitive funding, including $8M as CI in 11 ARC grants (5 as lead).
Maria's PhD, awarded in 1994, won the Universidad Politecnica de Madrid's Best PhD Award. In 1997 she was awarded the first and only prestigious Logan Fellowship in the Faculty of Information Technology a role she held for 6 years. In 2005 she won, with Peter Stuckey, the International Constraint Modelling Challenge. She has been an elected member of the Executive Committee of the Association of Logic Programming (2005-2008) and of the Executive Committee of the Association of Constraint Programming (2017-2020), of which she was also elected as President (2019-2020). In 2021 she was inducted into the Monash Honour Roll.
Monash teaching commitment
Professor Maria Garcia de la Banda has experience as the Chief Examiner for the following units in the Faculty of IT:
- FIT1008/FIT1015 Introduction to computer science
- FIT3082 Programming Languages and Paradigms
She has also experience as the Lecturer for the following units in the Faculty of IT:
- FIT1008/FIT1015 Introduction to computer science
- FIT3082 Programming Languages and Paradigms
- CSE3301 Computer Science Project
- CSE1303 Computer Science
- CSE5340 Programming Language Concepts and Semantics
- CSE2393/CSE3393/CSC/3930 Prolog Programming
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, Universidad Politecnica de Madrid (Polytechnic University of Madrid)
Award Date: 7 Jul 1994
Computer Science, Ingeniero Informatico, Universidad Politecnica de Madrid (Polytechnic University of Madrid)
Award Date: 1 Mar 1992
Research area keywords
- Program Analysis and Transformation
- Constraint Programming
- Combinatorial Optimisation
- Problem Modelling And Solving
- Bioinformatics
Collaborations and top research areas from the last five years
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HARNESS: Hierarchical Abstractions and Reasoning for Neuro-Symbolic Systems
Li, Y., Stuckey, P., Gasevic, D., Gutierrez, J., Qu, L., Rezatofighi, H., Garcia De La Banda Garcia, M., Ignatiev , A., Swiecki, Z., Vered, M., Chen, G. & Haffari, R.
20/06/23 → 20/02/27
Project: Research
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ARC Training Centre in Optimisation Technologies, Integrated Methodologies, and Applications (OPTIMA)
Smith-Miles, K., Stuckey, P., Taylor, P. G., Ernst, A., Aickelin, U., Garcia De La Banda Garcia, M., Pearce, A., Wallace, M., Bondell, H., Hyndman, R., Alpcan, T., Thomas, D. A., Anjomshoa, H., Kirley, M. G., Tack, G., Costa, A., Fackrell, M., Zhang, L., Glazebrook, K., Branke, J., O'Sullivan, B., O'Shea, N., Cheah, A., Meehan, A., Wetenhall, P., Bowly, D., Bridge, J., Faka, S., Mareels, I., Coleman, R. A. & Crook, J.
Engie Services Australia Pty Limited
23/09/21 → 23/09/26
Project: Research
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Building 4.0 CRC: Better buildings, new efficiencies through technology and collaboration
Aitchison, M., Ngo, T. D., Maxwell, D., Couper, R., Breen Lovett, S., Cumarasamy, S., Blue, K., Laverty, C., Gerber, P., Merkoulova, Y., Sohal, A., Dare, R., Moehler, R., Nicholson, A., Grundy, J., Garcia De La Banda Garcia, M., McCormack, J., Vu, L. H., Dwyer, T., Murray, S., Kulic, D., Bai, Y., Davies, C., Zhou, J., Duffield, C., Singh, P. J., Bridge, A., Erol, I., Drogemuller, R. & Mahendran, M.
10/09/20 → 30/06/27
Project: Research
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WMEP-IT-2A-017 Hydrogen Value Chain Design
Garcia De La Banda Garcia, M., Belov, G., Czauderna, T., Palmer, G., Wang, C. & Honnery, D.
2/08/21 → 30/09/21
Project: Research
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Modelling, synthesis and testing of potential agents against COVID-19 main protease
Konagurthu, A., Lesk, A. M., Garcia De La Banda Garcia, M., Stuckey, P., Allison, L. & Abramson, D.
15/07/20 → 31/05/21
Project: Research
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Getting 'ϕψχal' with proteins: minimum message length inference of joint distributions of backbone and sidechain dihedral angles
Amarasinghe, P. R., Allison, L., Stuckey, P. J., García De La Banda, M. G., Lesk, A. M. & Konagurthu, A. S., Jun 2023, In: Bioinformatics (Oxford, England). 39, 39, p. i357-i367 11 p.Research output: Contribution to journal › Article › Research › peer-review
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Human-centred feasibility restoration in practice
Senthooran, I., Klapperstueck, M., Belov, G., Czauderna, T., Leo, K., Wallace, M., Wybrow, M. & García De La Banda, M., Jul 2023, In: Constraints. 84, 28, p. 203-243 41 p.Research output: Contribution to journal › Article › Research › peer-review
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Optimal Dynamic Partial Order Reduction with context-sensitive independence and observers
Albert, E., de la Banda, M. G., Gómez-Zamalloa, M., Isabel, M. & Stuckey, P., Aug 2023, In: Journal of Systems and Software. 202, 18 p., 111730.Research output: Contribution to journal › Article › Research › peer-review
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Globalizing constraint models
Leo, K., Mears, C., Tack, G. & Garcia de la Banda, M., Jan 2022, In: Artificial Intelligence. 302, 23 p., 103599.Research output: Contribution to journal › Article › Research › peer-review
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On the reliability and the limits of inference of amino acid sequence alignments
Rajapaksa, S., Sumanaweera, D., Lesk, A. M., Allison, L., Stuckey, P. J., Garcia De La Banda, M., Abramson, D. & Konagurthu, A. S., Jul 2022, In: Bioinformatics. 38, p. i255-i263 9 p.Research output: Contribution to journal › Article › Research › peer-review
Open AccessFile3 Citations (Scopus)
Prizes
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Vice-Chancellor's Diversity and Inclusion Award
Carroll, John (Recipient), Brown, Michael (Recipient), Edgington-Mitchell, Daniel (Recipient), Garcia De La Banda Garcia, Maria (Recipient), Gurvich, Caroline (Recipient), Ho, Susie (Recipient), Joschko, Lucie (Recipient), Maher, JaneMaree (Recipient), McDonald, Mike (Recipient), McGlinn, Edwina (Recipient), McGuigan, Nicholas (Recipient), Morgan, Michael (Recipient), Murray-Zaia, Janine (Recipient) & Strengers, Yolande (Recipient), 10 Dec 2020
Prize: Prize (including medals and awards)
Activities
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Member - Australian Computer Society
Maria Garcia De La Banda (Member)
1 Jan 2016Activity: External Academic Engagement › Professional association or peak discipline body
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Deputy Dean - Faculty of Information Technology, Monash University
Maria Garcia De La Banda (Executive Member)
1 Jan 2016Activity: External Academic Engagement › Committees and working groups
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Member - Association for Computing Machinery (ACM)
Maria Garcia De La Banda (Member)
1 Jan 2016Activity: External Academic Engagement › Professional association or peak discipline body
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Theory and Practice of Logic Programming (Journal)
Maria Garcia De La Banda (Editorial board member)
1 Jan 2016Activity: Publication peer-review and editorial work types › Editorial responsibility