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PRIVATE BAG 12
HOBART TAS 7001 AUSTRALIA

Current Roles

  • Acting Leader of Spatial Temporal Analytics Team
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  • Digital Water Project - Flood Analytics
    Development of an ML based model to emulate 2D hydrodynamic models in the Murray Darling Basin. The objective is to run the ML models with the precision and spatial resolution of a hydrodynamic model but at multiple orders of magnitude faster.

  • Tennis strategies using Reinforcement Learning
    Develop a prototype tool to demonstrate the value of employing RL for tennis shot selection strategies. Developed a Bayesian, stochastic tennis shot simulator to interact with an RL agent player for training the system..

Academic Qualifications

  • 2009

    Doctor of Philosphy (Engineering)
    University of Wollongong

  • 2005

    Bachelor of Engineering (1st class hons - Telecommunications)
    University of Wollongong

Professional Experiences

  • 2011-Present

    Research Scientist / Senior Research Scientist
    CSIRO

  • 2009-2011

    Post Doctoral Fellow
    CSIRO

  • 2011-2013

    Team Leader of Computational Intelligence Team
    CSIRO

Achievements and Awards

  • 2011-2011

    CSIRO Medal for Environment Achievement
    CSIRO

  • 2011-2011

    Tasmanian State iAward (R&D)
    iAwards

  • 2010-2010

    Tasmanian State iAward (R&D)
    iAwards