Machine Learning: A Foundational Tool for Twenty-First Century Research

Abstract

Machine Learning is revolutionising business, industry, government and social interaction. It is also revolutionising research, becoming a foundational tool in the age of Big Data. This talk introduces machine learning, and provides examples of how it can support advanced research. BioGeoff Webb is a Professor in the Monash Faculty of Information Technology, Director of the Monash Monash Centre for Data Science and Scientific Director of the Monash eResearch Centre. He is a technical advisor to data science startups BigML and FROMMLE. He has been Editor in Chief of the premier data mining journal, Data Mining and Knowledge Discovery (2005 to 2014) and Program Committee Chair of the two top data mining conferences, ACM SIGKDD (2015) and IEEE ICDM (2010), as well as General Chair of ICDM (2012). Many of his learning algorithms are included in the widely-used BigML, R and Weka machine learning workbenches. He is an IEEE Fellow and his many awards include the inaugural Eureka Prize for Excellence in Data Science in 2017.