This online CV is a summary and omits information; in particular, a complete employment history and details of commercial experience and employment are omitted.
Education Summary
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11/2008-Current: Ph.D. (Dr. Rer. Nat.)
Statistical, Probabilistic and Geometric Methods in High Dimensional Data Mining
Faculty of Mathematics, Statistics and Computer Science, Ludwig-Maximilians-Universitaet Munich, Germany.
Currently completing Thesis.
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9/2005-2/2010: Ph.D.
Mining Complex Spatio-Temporal Movement Patterns
Faculty of Engineering and Information Technologies, The University of Sydney, Australia
Thesis submitted February 2010, Examination result received June 2010, currently working on final copy :-)
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7/2007-1/2009: Graduate Certificate in Innovation and Enterprise
Faculty of Economics and Business, The University of Sydney, Australia.
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2001-2004: Bachelor of Engineering (Software Engineering) Honours Class I and the University Medal
Faculty of Engineering, The University of Sydney, Australia.
Top of graduating class, best Thesis, University Medal, ~93% average, ...
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2000: Higher School Certificate and "Hochschulzugangsberechtigung"
Baulkham Hills (Selective) High School, NSW, Australia.
DUX (top of graduating class), University Admissions Index (UAI) of 99.95, equivalent to 1,0 (best possible mark) in Germany.
[details][awards] - I have also completed additional (non-award) courses.
Please see Education for details.
Summary of Skills and Interests
- Fields: Academic Research, Commercial Research and Development, Computer Science, Software Engineering, Software Development, Mathematics, Business.
- Academic Research: Solve new or existing problems in novel ways; question and find flaws in existing theories, assumptions and solutions; quickly learn and stay on top of advances; design, build, objectively evaluate and effectively communicate new methods; manage highly uncertain projects and work to strict deadlines; service (peer reviewer for journals and conferences).
- Commercial R&D: Research and develop opportunity driven innovations based on emerging technologies.
- Computer Science: knowledge discovery in databases (KDD), data mining (DM), machine learning (ML), algorithms, databases, information retrieval & search, artificial intelligence. (See also research interests).
- Software Engineering: Object-oriented design and development, software development processes, requirements analysis, project management, design and architecture, large projects, verification and validation, concurrent, parallel and distributed applications, real-time, systems, security and cryptography, networks, some signals, signal processing & control, ...
- Software Development: Agile/XP/Test-driven development process, leading small teams, efficient algorithm design, concurrent programming, design frameworks and abstraction layers, architecture, design patterns, coding standards and re-factoring, web application development, web services,...
- Mathematics: Probability theory, statistics, pure mathematics, some financial mathematics.
- Business: (International) entrepreneurship, commercialization, intellectual property management, collaborative innovation, business fundamentals (e.g. analysis, strategy, some finance & marketing).
- Tools: Java (~9 years including commercial and research), C and C++, LaTeX, LyX, Matlab, xml, xhtml, html, css, jsp, SQL, Windows, *nix, Apache, eclipse, SVN, Ant, JUnit, Spring, XWork, Hibernate, Wicket,...
Recent Employment Summary
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9/2008-5/2009: Research Assistant
Database Systems Research Group, Ludwig-Maximilians-Universitaet Munich, Germany. -
2006-2007: Tutoring/Teaching and occasionally lecturing courses including Knowledge Discovery and Data Mining and Theory of Computation.
University of Sydney, Australia. -
1/2005-9/2005: Graduate Research and Development Engineer
Business Innovation and Development, Telstra Research Labs, Sydney, Australia.
Please see Employment and Teaching for further information.
Academic (Research)
Publications
To date, 11 peer reviewed publications, almost all in top international conferences, workshops or journals related to Knowledge Discovery in Databases and Data Mining.
Conferences Attended
ICDM: IEEE International Conference on Data Mining (Houston 2005, Hong Kong 2006, Omaha 2007), SDM: SIAM International Conference on Data Mining (Atlanta 2008, Reno 2009), DASFAA: International Conference on Database Systems for Advanced Applications (Brisbane 2009, Tsukuba 2010). SIGKDD: ACM SIGKDD Conference on Knowledge Discovery and Data Mining (Paris 2009),
Service
External reviewer for conferences including SIGKDD, ICDM, SDM, DASFAA, PAKDD. Invited reviewer for Journals including DAMI.
Teaching
Teaching experience in Knowledge Discovery, Data Mining, Machine Learning and Theory of Computation in Australia and Germany. Please see Teaching for details.
Universities
- Database Systems Research Group, Ludwig-Maximilians-Universitaet Munich, Germany (> 1.5 years)
- Parallel and Distributed Systems Research Group, University of Stuttgart, Germany (> 4 months)
- School of IT, University of Sydney, Australia (> 2.5 years)
Selected Presentations
- Except for one, presented all publications at the respective conferences (2003-2009).
- Invited lecture on my PhD research, Microsoft Research Asia Labs, Beijing, China. March 2008.
- Invited to speak on behalf of the graduating year at the Electrical and Information Engineering graduation dinner. 2005.
Selected Awards
- Microsoft Research Asia Fellowship, an international award which "recognizes and awards outstanding PhD students who have the potential to become future research leaders". One student is nominated per university in the Asia-Pacific region and winners are selected by a panel from MSRA.
- Sydney University Medal, Top of graduating class and best Thesis award.
- Telstra Research Labs Fellowship.
- Numerous prizes for communication skills and analytical essays.
Please see Awards for a complete list and details.
Languages and Internationality
Native speaker of English and German. Education almost entirely in English (and in Australia). Lived, worked and studied in Australia and Germany. No visa required to work in Australia, member countries of the European Union or European Economic Area and Switzerland. I love traveling and have done so extensively throughout the world.
Interests / Hobbies
I'm passionate about dancing; Swing, Blues, Liny Hop, Swing-Fusion, Balboa, etc... I love expressing myself creatively to the music and it keeps me fit. I help teach at Swing and the City.
