Faculty of Information Technology | Monash University

Speaker Bio: Rajeev Rastogi is a Director of Machine Learning at Amazon where he is developing ML platforms and applications for the e-commerce domain. Previously, he was Vice President of Yahoo! Labs Bangalore and the founding Director of the Bell Labs Research Center in Bangalore, India. Rajeev is an ACM Fellow and a Bell Labs Fellow. He is active in the fields of databases, data mining, and networking, and has served on the program committees of several conferences in these areas. He currently serves on the editorial board of the CACM, and has been an Associate editor for IEEE Transactions on Knowledge and Data Engineering in the past. He has published over 125 papers, and holds over 50 patents. Rajeev received his B. Tech degree from IIT Bombay, and a PhD degree in Computer Science from the University of Texas, Austin.

Speaker: Natasa Milic-Frayling Preserving today's innovation in a market driven world We are increasingly engaged in blended experiences of digital and physical activities. In some instances, digital technologies have transformed our practices beyond recognition; in others, they have given rise to new activities such as simulations of complex processes and instantaneous publishing. However, digital is fundamentally expensive and dependent on sophisticated infrastructures and human competencies. Consequently, digital requires the continued investment of time, effort, and resources, making our experiences and practices intrinsically connected to underlying sustainability models. That begs the question to what degree our research and innovation efforts are determined by existing sustainability models. For example, as HCI and Data Science researchers, we are concerned with design optimization and predictive models, but we are not explicit about the sustainability models that are necessary to adopt our proposed designs or are already embedded in the data that we are studying. By considering three use cases, online information access, e-commerce trading, and digital obsolescence, we illustrate the influence of economic models on design and experience and the necessity to give them the appropriate emphasis in our research and innovation.

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Congratulations to all FIT students who graduated from Monash University over the past two weeks. The celebrations on campus have been amazing. https://www.youtube.com/watch?time_continue=41&v=y0JGGASjXv0

Congratulations Arvin and to all our graduates. You made it!

Speaker: Prof. John Grundy, Senior Deputy Dean, Faculty of IT, Monash University Humans are a key part of software development, including customers, designers, coders, testers and end users. In this talk I discuss several examples from our recent work on handling human-centric issues when engineering software systems. This includes personality impact on aspects of software development, specifically testing and pair-programming; understanding interpersonal issues in agile practices ; incorporating end user emotions into software requirements engineering; reporting usability defects; providing proactive design critics in software tools to augment human decision making; and finally to the use of human-centric, domain-specific visual models for non-technical experts to specify and generate systems, without the need for software engineers at all. I assess the usefulness of these approaches and discuss key future directions.