We are a diverse group in terms of research interests, background, technical skills, and cultural perspectives.
Researchers
Interests:
popularity on social media; stochastic point processes;
language models for style; visualising evolving graphs
Before the ANU: IBM T J Watson Research Center, Columbia U
Before the ANU: IBM T J Watson Research Center, Columbia U
Projects:
understanding object naming; generating image captions;
multimedia analysis; visual semantics
Before the ANU: The University of Western Australia
Before the ANU: The University of Western Australia

Lecturer, ANU Computer Science
Projects:
Data Mining, Social Media Analysis, Computational Social Science
Before the ANU: Innopolis University, Russia
Before the ANU: Innopolis University, Russia
Projects:
multimedia knowledge graphs, interactive ranking systems.
Before the ANU: LG Electronics; KAIST
Before the ANU: LG Electronics; KAIST

PhD Student, ANU Computer Science;
Projects:
Natural language understanding, graph neural networks, and computer vision.
Before the ANU: Mathspace
Before the ANU: Mathspace
Projects:
Natural Language Generation, Graph Analysis
Before the ANU: Shanghai Jiaotong University
Before the ANU: Shanghai Jiaotong University
Projects:
Information Diffusion Modeling with Theoretical Models
Before the ANU: Zhejiang University
Before the ANU: Zhejiang University
Projects:
Non-parametric Bayesian Estimation of Hawkes Triggering Kernels
Before the ANU: Shanghai Jiaotong University
Before the ANU: Shanghai Jiaotong University

PhD Student, ANU Computer Science;
Projects:
Probabilistic knowledge graph; Active learning
Before the ANU: Shandong University
Before the ANU: Shandong University

PhD Student, ANU Computer Science;
Projects:
User Behavior Analysis; Spam Detection
Before the ANU: Tsinghua University
Before the ANU: Tsinghua University
Projects:
Online moral dilemmas
Before the ANU: The University of Melbourne
Before the ANU: The University of Melbourne

Undergraduate Student, ANU Computer Science;
Projects:
Influencemap, Paper Embedding
Before the ANU: N/A
Before the ANU: N/A
Current and recent collaborators
- Tim Graham, Queensland University of Technology; ANU Social Sciences and Computer Science
- Sylvie Thiebaux, ANU CS, Planning and Optimisation
- Felipe Trevizan, ANU CS, Planning and Machine Learning
- Cheng Soon Ong, Data61, CSIRO
- Aditya Menon, Google Ressearch; previously Data61
- Rob Lanfear, ANU Ecology, Evolution, and Genetics
- Armin Haller, ANU Management and Computer Science
- Mark Carman, Monash University
- Young Lee, Harvard; previously NUS, Data61
- Scott Sanner, University of Toronto
- Xuming He, Shanghai Tech
- Manuel Cebrian, MIT; previously Data61
- Pascal van Hentenryck, University of Michigan
Alumni
Projects:
measuring and modeling social behavior on web context
Before the ANU: MicroStrategy | The University of Melbourne
Before the ANU: MicroStrategy | The University of Melbourne
Projects:
Picturing Knowledge
Before the ANU: Logpoint Nepal | Institute of Engineering (Tribhuvan University, Nepal)
Before the ANU: Logpoint Nepal | Institute of Engineering (Tribhuvan University, Nepal)

Undergraduate Student, ANU Computer Science;
Projects:
Influencemap
Before the ANU: N/A
Before the ANU: N/A
Projects:
Machine Learning, Topic models, Bayesian nonparametrics, Computational Social Science
Before the ANU: KAIST
Before the ANU: KAIST
Projects:g
predicting popularity on social media;
Humany Dynamics
Before the ANU: University Lumière, Lyon.
Before the ANU: University Lumière, Lyon.
Currently: PhD student, AIFB @ KIT

PhD, ANU Computer Science 2016 (co-advised with Armin Haller)
Thesis:
Ontology Ranking: Finding the Right Ontologies on the Web
Currently: CSIRO, Canberra
Currently: CSIRO, Canberra

PhD, ANU Computer Science 2016;
machine learning, NICTA (co-advised with Scott Sanner and Aditya Menon)
Thesis:
A Unified Approach to Collaborative Filtering via Linear Models and Beyond
Currently: Twitter Inc
Currently: Twitter Inc
Thesis: Understanding the Popularity Evolution of Online Media: A Case Study on YouTube Videos
Currently: Research Fellow, ANU College of Business and Economics
Currently: Research Fellow, ANU College of Business and Economics

PhD, ANU Computer Science, 2019;
machine learning, NICTA/Data61 (co-advised with Cheng Soon Ong and Aditya Menon)
Thesis: Recommending Structured Objects: Paths and Sets
Currently: Research Engineer, ANU College of Engineering and Computer Science
Currently: Research Engineer, ANU College of Engineering and Computer Science

PhD, ANU Computer Science, 2019;
machine learning, Data61/NICTA (co-advised with Marian-Andrei Rizoiu)
Thesis: Linking Models for Collective Attention in Social Media
Currently: Research Associate, Imperial College London
Currently: Research Associate, Imperial College London

MS Student, ANU Computer Science, 2019
Thesis: A hipper approach to interval-censored Hawkes process
Currently: PhD in Computer Vision at ANU
Currently: PhD in Computer Vision at ANU
Thesis: The Bot Among Us: Disrupting Truth and Reason Through Online Social Meida
Currently: PhD Student, Chinese University of HongKong; previous Alibaba Group
Currently: PhD Student, Chinese University of HongKong; previous Alibaba Group

Honours Student, ANU Computer Science, 2018
Thesis: Road Extraction from Time Series Satellite Images
Currently: Developer at Baidu
Currently: Developer at Baidu
Thesis: Generalized Policies for Probabilistic Planning with Deep Learning (2017 ANU University Medal)
Currently: PhD Student, UC Berkeley
Currently: PhD Student, UC Berkeley
Thesis: Social Event Detection with Interaction Graph Modeling
Currently: REA Group; previously Lonely Planet, StartMyGig
Currently: REA Group; previously Lonely Planet, StartMyGig
Thesis: Learning Mixtures of Phylogenetic Trees
Currently: Facebook; previously Carnegie Mellon University
Currently: Facebook; previously Carnegie Mellon University
Thesis: Image Annotation with High Level Words using Generalized Attributes
Currently: Software Engineer, X the moonshot factory; previously Google
Currently: Software Engineer, X the moonshot factory; previously Google