IT academic honoured for outstanding service
Professor Geoff Webb
A Monash University researcher has been awarded the Outstanding Service Award from the Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers (IEEE) 2013 International Conference on Data Mining (ICDM).
Professor Geoff Webb, from the Monash Faculty of Information Technology, will be formally presented with the IEEE ICDM Outstanding Service Award at the ICDM in Dallas, Texas in December.
The IEEE ICDM Outstanding Service Award is presented to an individual or group who has made major service contributions that have promoted data mining as a field at the ICDM; the world’s premier research conference in data mining.
Professor Webb has a long history of promoting the ICDM and the data mining field and has been actively involved in the ICDM since its inception. The award is a significant honour and recognises Professor Webb’s contributions to the field as well as to the ICDM conference series.
Professor Webb said it was very humbling to be honoured in this way.
“It's an honour to be recognised by the IEEE and the ICDM. I am passionate about what I do, and I hope that my work can inspire others in the field of data mining," Professor Webb said.
“For me this has been a lifelong commitment and passion and I hope I can continue to make valuable contributions to the field.”
Professor Webb has been an academic at Monash University since 2002. He is currently the director of the Monash Centre for Research in Intelligent Systems and founder and managing director of data mining software development and consultancy company G.I. Webb & Associates.
Over the course of his career Professor Webb has published more than 175 scientific papers and is the author of the commercial data mining software package Magnum Opus; a system that embodies many of his research contributions in the area of data mining.
He has been the chief investigator on national competitive grants totalling more than $4.4 million, including $1.75 million as lead investigator, and his algorithms are widely used in industry and research.
Professor Webb’s service to the broader data mining community is extensive, and he holds various positions in the field including Editor-in-Chief of Data mining and Knowledge Discovery and Editorial Advisory Board member of Statistical Analysis and Data Mining.