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Bob Williamson
Research Group Leader, Machine Learning
Canberra Laboratory
Professor Bob Williamson is the leader of the Machine Learning group at NICTA.
He received a Bachelor of Electrical Engineering from the Queensland University of Technology in 1984 and a Masters of Engineering Science (Electrical Engineering) from the University of Queensland in 1986. In 1990 he obtained a PhD in Electrical Engineering from the University of Queensland.
He joined the Australian National University as a postdoctoral fellow in the Department of Systems Engineering in 1990 and held a series of appointments before becoming a professor and head of the Computer Sciences Laboratory, Research School of Information Sciences and Engineering at the Australian National University.
From 2003 to early 2006 Professor Williamson was the Director of NICTA’s Canberra Research Laboratory. In 2006 he was appointed as NICTA's Scientific Director. Since 2011 he has been leading the Machine Learning group.
He is a member of the advisory board of the National Institute of Informatics (Japan) and the Scientific Advisory Board of the Max-Planck Institute for Biological Cybernetics.
His scientific interests include signal processing and machine learning.
See his home page
Recent Papers
- Surrogate Regret Bounds for Proper Losses, Proceedings of the 26th International Conference on Machine Learning, Montreal, Canada, 897-904, (2009). (With Mark Reid)
- Generalised Pinsker Inequalities, Conference on Learning Theory (COLT), 2009. (No page numbers: see www.cs.mcgill.ca/ ~ colt2009/proceedings.html ) (With Mark Reid)
- Information, Divergence and Risk for Binary Experiments, Journal of Machine Learning Research March 2011, pages 731-817 (with Mark Reid)
- Composite Binary Losses, Journal of Machine Learning Research September 2010, pages 2387-2422 (with Mark Reid)
- Clustering: Science or Art, June 2011 (with Ule von Luxburg and Isabelle Guyon)
- Mixability is Bayes Risk Curvature Relative to Log Loss, in COLT2011 (with Tim van Erven and Mark Reid)
His older publications can be found at http://axiom.anu.edu.au/~williams/pubs-standalone.html
email: Bob.Williamson@nicta.com.au
