Senior Researcher
Victoria Research Laboratory

Lawrence Cavedon is a Senior Research at NICTA's Victoria Research Laboratory, and project leader for the Biomedical Text Processing project.

Prior to joining NICTA, Cavedon spent 3 years as a Senior Researcher at Stanford University, in the Center for the Study of Language and Information. During that time he worked on developing practical speech-based dialogue systems, and collaborated with organizations such as Boeing, NASA, Bosch, and VW America. Prior to that, Cavedon worked in the Advanced Technology Group at VerticalNet Inc., a silicon valley company developing new technologies for the large-enterprise space. While there, he led a team that developed the first commercial Semantic Web Services platform, and also led engineering teams working on VerticalNet products. He is currently also a senior lecturer at RMIT University.

Dr. Cavedon holds a PhD (1995) in Cognitive Science from the University of Edinburgh, and B.Sc. (Hons) (1986) and M.Sc. (1989) degrees in Computer Science from the University of Melbourne.

Contact Details:
Email: lawrence.cavedon@nicta.com.au
Phone: (+61 3) 8344-5016
WWW: http://www.csse.unimelb.edu.au/~lcavedon