Geoffrey I. Webb (also known as Geoff Webb) is Professor of Computer Science at

Monash University Monash University () is a public research university based in Melbourne, Victoria, Australia. Named for prominent World War I general Sir John Monash, it was founded in 1958 and is the second oldest university in the state. The university has a ...

, founder and director of Data Mining software development and consultancy company G. I. Webb and Associates, and former editor-in-chief of the journal '' Data Mining and Knowledge Discovery''. Before joining Monash University he was on the faculty at Griffith University from 1986 to 1988 and then at Deakin University from 1988 to 2002. Webb has published more than 280 scientific papers in the fields of

machine learning Machine learning (ML) is a field of inquiry devoted to understanding and building methods that 'learn', that is, methods that leverage data to improve performance on some set of tasks. It is seen as a part of artificial intelligence. Machine ...

data science Data science is an interdisciplinary field that uses scientific methods, processes, algorithms and systems to extract or extrapolate knowledge and insights from noisy, structured and unstructured data, and apply knowledge from data across a br ...

, data mining, data analytics,

time series In mathematics, a time series is a series of data points indexed (or listed or graphed) in time order. Most commonly, a time series is a sequence taken at successive equally spaced points in time. Thus it is a sequence of discrete-time data. Exa ...

analytics,

big data Though used sometimes loosely partly because of a lack of formal definition, the interpretation that seems to best describe Big data is the one associated with large body of information that we could not comprehend when used only in smaller am ...

bioinformatics Bioinformatics () is an interdisciplinary field that develops methods and software tools for understanding biological data, in particular when the data sets are large and complex. As an interdisciplinary field of science, bioinformatics combi ...

and user modeling. He is an editor of the Encyclopedia of Machine Learning. Webb created the

Averaged One-Dependence Estimators Averaged one-dependence estimators (AODE) is a probabilistic classification learning technique. It was developed to address the attribute-independence problem of the popular naive Bayes classifier. It frequently develops substantially more accur ...

(AODE) machine learning algorithm and its generalization Averaged N-Dependence Estimators (ANDE) and has worked extensively on statistically sound association rule learning. His early work included advocating the use of machine learning to create black box user models; interactive machine learning; decision tree grafting; and one of the first approaches to association rule learning using minimum support and confidence to find the rules for the first associative classifier, FBM. He has developed multiple novel approaches to time series classification. He has worked on diverse problems including

concept drift In predictive analytics and machine learning, concept drift means that the statistical properties of the target variable, which the model is trying to predict, change over time in unforeseen ways. This causes problems because the predictions become ...

, scalable learning of graphical models, human in the loop

, computational protein biology. Webb's awards include inaugural Eureka Prize for Excellence in Data Science, 2017, IEEE Fellow, Pacific-Asia Conference on Knowledge Discovery and Data Mining Distinguished Research Contributions Award, 2022, Australian Computer Society ICT Researcher of the Year Award 2016, the IEEE International Conference on Data Mining Outstanding Service Award, 2013 an Australian Research Council Outstanding Researcher Award, 2014 and multiple Australian Research Council Discovery Grants. He has twice been recognised by The Australian Research Magazine as Australia's leading Bioinformatics and Computational Biology researcher. Webb is a foundation member of the editorial advisory board of the journal Statistical Analysis and Data Mining. He has served on the Editorial Boards of the journals Machine Learning, ACM Transactions on Knowledge Discovery in Data, User Modeling and User Adapted Interaction, and Knowledge and Information Systems. Webb was elected to the ACM Special Interest Group on Knowledge Discovery and Data Mining Executive Committee in 2017.About SIGKDD
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External links

Webb's home page

G. I. Webb and Associates

References

{{DEFAULTSORT:Webb, Geoffrey Australian computer scientists Living people Monash University faculty People from Melbourne Year of birth missing (living people)