Professor Geoff Webb

Professor, Department of Data Science and Artificial Intelligence, Monash University

Professor Geoff Webb is an eminent and highly-cited data scientist. He was editor in chief of the premier data mining journal Data Mining and Knowledge Discovery journal, from 2005 to 2014. He has been Program Committee Chair of both premier data mining conferences, ACM SIGKDD and IEEE ICDM, as well as General Chair of ICDM and member of the ACM SIGKDD Executive. He is a Technical Advisor to machine learning as a service startup BigML Inc and to recommender systems startup FROOMLE. He pioneered multiple research areas as diverse as black-box user modelling, interactive data analytics and statistically-sound pattern discovery. He has developed many useful machine learning algorithms that are widely deployed. His many awards include IEEE Fellow, the inaugural Eureka Prize for Excellence in Data Science (2017) and the Pacific-Asia Conference on Knowledge Discovery and Data Mining Distinguished Research Contributions Award (2022).