Education and Training Summary

• Doctor rerum naturalium (Dr. rer. nat.)
  Generalised Interaction Mining: Probabilistic, Statistical and Vectorised Methods in High Dimensional or Uncertain Databases
  Faculty of Mathematics, Statistics and Computer Science, Ludwig-Maximilians-Universitaet Munich, Germany.
  [details][publications][awards]
• Doctor of Philosophy (PhD)
  Mining Complex Spatio-Temporal Movement Patterns
  Faculty of Engineering and Information Technologies, The University of Sydney, Australia
  [details][publications][awards]
• Graduate Certificate in Innovation and Enterprise
  Faculty of Economics and Business, The University of Sydney, Australia.
  [details][awards]
• Bachelor of Engineering (Software Engineering) Honours Class I and the University Medal
  Faculty of Engineering, The University of Sydney, Australia.
  [details][publications][awards]
• Higher School Certificate and "Hochschulzugangsberechtigung"
  Baulkham Hills (Selective) High School, NSW, Australia.
  Zeugnisanerkennungsstelle für den Freistaat Bayern, Germany.
  [details][awards]

[Further information].

Skills Summary

Fields

• Research: ( > 6 years) Find creative solutions to challenging problems; Find weaknesses in existing theories, assumptions and solutions; Learn quickly, keep up with advances and spot opportunities; Design, build, objectively evaluate and effectively communicate new technologies; Manage highly uncertain projects and work to strict deadlines in teams as well as individually; Software engineering of small, large and long term projects (Java); Publish and present at top international conferences and journals; Service (peer review for journals and conferences); Scientific writing; Grant applications; Teach and mentor
• Commercial R&D: (~ 1 year) Research and develop opportunity driven innovations based on emerging technologies.
• Computer Science: Knowledge discovery in databases (KDD); Data mining (DM); Machine learning (ML), classification and prediction; Efficient algorithms and advanced data structures; Artificial intelligence (AI); (See also research interests).
• Software Engineering: (~ 10 years) Object-oriented analysis; Requirements analysis; Small to large projects; Verification and validation; Concurrent, parallel and distributed applications; Test-driven development; Leading small teams; Designing frameworks and abstraction layers; Design patterns, coding standards and re-factoring; Web application development; Web services; Cryptography
• Mathematics: Probability; Statistics
• Business: Commercialization; Intellectual property management; Business fundamentals (e.g. analysis, strategy)

Tools

Java (~10 years including commercial and research); J2EE; C and C++; Matlab; LaTeX; XML; XHTML; HTML; CSS; SQL; XSLT; SOAP; Windows; *nix; Apache; Eclipse; SVN; Ant; JUnit; Spring; XWork; Hibernate ...

Languages

English (native); German (native)

Work Permits

Australia, New Zealand, Switzerland or any member countries of the European Union or European Economic Area.

Recent Experience

• Doctoral candidate and researcher
  Ludwig-Maximilians-Universitaet Munich, Germany and
  University of Sydney, Australia.
  • Research Assistant
    Database Systems Research Group, Ludwig-Maximilians-Universitaet Munich, Germany.
  • Tutoring and Teaching
    Data Mining, Machine Learning, Theory of Computation.
    School of IT, University of Sydney, Australia.
• Graduate Research and Development Engineer
  Business Innovation and Development, Telstra Research Labs, Sydney, Australia.

Further employment and teaching information.

Selected Awards and Achievements

• Obtained two PhDs, a Graduate Certificate and 14 publications within 5.3 years.
• Microsoft Research Asia Fellowship, a competetive international award which "recognizes and awards outstanding PhD students who have the potential to become future research leaders".
• Sydney University medal, top of graduating class and best thesis award.
• Telstra Research Labs fellowship.
• Prizes for communication skills and analytical essays.

[Complete list and details].

Publications

See [publications].

Selected Presentations

• Presented all (except for one) publications at the respective conferences (2003-2010).
• Invited lecture, 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.

Interests / Hobbies

I'm passionate about dancing; swing, blues, liny hop, swing-fusion, balboa, etc... I helped teach at Swing and the City in Munich, Germany.