Wray Buntine
Principal Researcher
Canberra Research Laboratory
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General
Dr Buntine is a principal researcher at NICTA's Canberra Lab. in the Statistical Machine Learning group, and an Adjunct at the Australian National University. His interests are theoretical and applied research in machine learning, probabilistic methods, and information access, for instance document analysis and document retrieval. A common thread is Bayesian methods, and related approaches.
Dr. Wray Buntine relocated from Helsinki Finland to Canberra Australia in April 2007 to join NICTA. Recently of University of Helsinki and HIIT, and previously NASA Ames Research Center, UC Berkeley, and Google.
Dr. Buntine's early work at NASA Ames research Center was in machine learning of decision trees and Bayesian networks, doing one of the first Bayesian non-parametric theses in machine learning. He also has a development background using Linux, and has produced two GPL'd suites of machine learning software, IND for decision trees in the 90's and MPCA for component analysis mid 2000's. His undergraduate was at University of Queensland where he did pure and applied mathematics and an MQual (1st class) in Computer Science.
Publications
See the NICTA publications page, and look up Buntine. Uni. Trier's DBLP has a good collection too. His Erdos number is 42.
Software
The Discrete Components Analysis software, DCA, is available for download.
Community
Giving a tutorial on "A Bayesian Look at Statistical Machine Learning" in European Conference on Machine Learning and Principles and Practice of Knowledge Discovery in Databases (ECML PKDD) 2010.
Co-chair for European Conference on Machine Learning and Principles and Practice of Knowledge Discovery in Databases (ECML PKDD) 2009.
Gave a tutorial at 1st Asian Conference on Machine Learning (ACML'09), November 2-4, 2009, Nanjing, China. Slides in "one per page with some URLs" and "4 per page but no URLs".
Editorial board for the Data Mining and Knowledge Discovery, New Generation Computing, and Statistics and Computing. Previously on editorial board for the Machine Learning Journal, Applied Intelligence and the Journal of Artificial Intelligence Research.
Served on program committees and/or reviewing for AAAI, IJCAI, UAI, KDD, COLT, ICML, ECMLPKDD, ECIR, SIGIR, PAKDD, NIPS, Discovery Science, AI and Statistics, WSDM and WWW. Co-Chair for International Workshop on Intelligent Information Access, Helsinki, July, 2006, Second International Workshop on Open Source Information Retrieval at SIGIR in Seattle, August 2006, Workshop on Web Search Technology - from Search to Semantic Search at the 1st Asian Semantic Web Conference, Beijing, September, 2006.
Contact Details
Wray Buntine, Principle Researcher, National ICT Australia Limited (NICTA)Postal address: Locked Bag 8001, Canberra ACT 2601 AUSTRALIA
Office location: Building A, 7 London Circuit, Canberra ACT 2601, AUSTRALIA
Email: Wray.Buntine<at>nicta.com.au