PUBLIC LECTURE INVITATION

Faculty of Computer Science and Information Technology

It is our distinct pleasure to inform you that the Department of Computer

Science, Faculty of Computer Science and Information Technology will
organize a public lecture as follows:

“Why is my Entity Typical or Special? Approaches for

Inlying and Outlying Aspects Mining”
Speaker: Prof James Bailey
The University of Melbourne, Australia

Date: 12th October 2018

Time : 9.00 am – 10.30 am
Location: Main Lecture Hall, FSKTM
Universiti Putra Malaysia

Abstract:

When investigating an individual entity, we may wish to identify aspects in which it is usual or
unusual compared to other entities. We refer to this as the inlying/outlying aspects mining
problem and it is important for comparative analysis and answering questions such as "How is
this entity special?" or "How does it coincide or differ from other entities?” Such information
could be useful in a disease diagnosis setting (where the individual is a patient) or in an
educational setting (where the individual is a student). We examine possible algorithmic
approaches to this task and investigate the scalability and effectiveness of these different
approaches.

Biography

James Bailey is a full Professor in the School of Computing and Information Systems at the
University of Melbourne. He obtained a BSc, BE and PhD from the University of Melbourne and
was afterwards a Research Fellow and then Lecturer at The University of London, before
returning again to Australia, where he has worked since 2001. He was an Australian Research
Council Future Fellow from 2012-2015. His research interests are in the area of data mining and
machine learning and his research has been translated to systems in the area of health,
partnering with both hospitals (real time medical emergency prediction for patients) and industry
(cognitive systems for immersive simulation training). He has received the best paper award at
conferences such as IEEE ICDM (2005), PAKDD (2014) and SIAM SDM (2016). He is a
member of several Editorial Boards, including IEEE Transactions on Big Data and Knowledge
and Information Systems. He is a regular Senior Program Committee Member of conferences
such as IEEE ICDM, ACM KDD, SIAM SDM, ACM CIKM and ECML-PKDD.