AAi NewsBytes August 2014
Director's Welcome
August 2014
Prof. Longbing Cao
AAi Director
World leading Chief Data Officer Dr Usama Fayyad joins UTS:AAi as an international board member Dr Usama Fayyad, one of the world’s foremost experts in data science and data analytics, joins the UTS Advanced Analytics Institute (UTS: AAi) as its International Advisory Board member. As the Chief Data Officer of Barclays Bank, Dr Fayyad’s role is to build and operate the data infrastructure and customer / client value-driving applications, across its retail, business, corporate, investment and wealth portfolios. “UTS is honoured to host outstanding world leaders such as Dr Usama Fayyad on its UTS: AAi International Advisory Board”, says Professor Glenn Wightwick. The appointment of Dr Fayyad will see him assisting in exploring collaborations between UTS and world-leading organizations, including British multinational banking and financial services companies. Read more here | |||
Workshop on Educational Data Mining on 22 August at UTS Learning Management Systems (LMS) across all education sectors accumulate huge amounts of data on teaching and learning practice. Students' learning behaviours are captured and stored during their interactions with course activities. These digital footprints can be mined to discover significant teaching/learning patterns and risk drivers, as well as offering interesting insights into the learning process. Essentially, educational data mining empowers both instructor and student to make smarter decisions for their teaching and learning journey. For details and free registration, visit here. | |||
Sharing Deep Data Analytics Innovation with the Government and Health Professionals Invited by the Department of Immigration and Border Protection, Prof Longbing shared his views on deep behaviour analytics to a group of over 30 senior analytics professionals from various government departments as a means of motivating and inspiring professional practice in analytics within the government. Our young PhD candidate, Shameek Ghosh, has also been invited to share his health informatics research at HISA NSW’s 3rd Young Talent Time event. Read more here. | |||
Best Paper Award at International Conference on Bioinformatics (InCoB) 2014 The paper by Qian Liu, Jinyan Li and Zhenhua Li on Using B-factor-related features for accurate classification between protein binding interfaces and crystal packing contacts won the Best Paper Award (BMC Bioinformatics) at the recent International Conference on Bioinformatics. It proposes to use four features related to B factor for the classification between biological interfaces and crystal packing contacts. The proposed computational methods have a potential for large-scale and accurate identification of biological interactions from the experimentally determined structural data stored at the Protein DataBank which may have diverse interface sizes. Read more here. | |||
New Monograph: Metasynthetic Computing and Engineering of Complex Systems A new monograph, Metasynthetic Computing and Engineering of Complex Systems, by Prof Longbing Cao, has recently been put online by Springer. The book uses the systematological methodology in addressing system complexities in open complex giant systems, for which it may not only be effective to apply reductionism or holism. The book aims to encourage and inspire discussion, design, implementation and reflection of effective methodologies and tools for computing and engineering open complex systems and problems. Researchers, research students and practitioners in complex systems, artificial intelligence, data science, computer science, and even system science, cognitive science, behaviour science, and social science, will find this book invaluable. Read more here. | |||
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2014 Big Data Summit, 24-28 October AAi is organising the annual 2014 Big Data Summit between 24 October and 28 October in Canberra and Sydney. The theme of this year’s Summit is “Innovate, Act and Lead” as Data Science and Big Data Analytics are taking up the challenge to help organisations improve decision making to gain market leadership. For more information, email us at advancedanalytics@uts.edu.au or read more here |