Melbourne Centre for Data Science
At the new Melbourne Centre for Data Science, we are forging a vibrant, research rich and engaging interdisciplinary environment to lead advances in data science for the benefit of society.
About MCDS
Data touches every aspect of our daily lives and holds potential for big change, positive or negative. Our goal is to promote and engage in fundamental and interdisciplinary research, teaching and leadership in Data Science.
Melbourne Centre for Data Science is built out of a joint collaboration between Statistics and Computer Science with priorities to:
- Connect the data rich ecosystem at the University to enhance distinguished research
- Enable vital fundamental research and deeper exploration into methodological foundations of data science
- Collaborate across academia, the private and public sectors, research centres, centres of excellence and research groups to drive innovation
- Assemble interdisciplinary teams of data science experts and domain experts to tackle long-term and/or large-scale projects
- Employ data science methods to aid circular discovery and further learned enquiry
- Inject data science expertise into real-world problems to provide cutting edge solutions
- Fortify research and educational training in data science for students, postdocs, academics and professionals
- Progress research outcomes, translation and impact by unblocking impediments by addressing methodological constraints
- Advise on, promote and observe strong data governance policies and practices.
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The inaugural Melbourne Centre for Data Science Doctoral Academy will commence in 2021.
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Congratulations to Dr Chris Baker and team for their Faculty of Medicine, Dentistry and Health Sciences Award for Excellence in Engagement - Partnerships.
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Congratulations to MCDS Investigator Dr Martin Tomko for receiving ARC Discovery Project funding.
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Congratulations to MCDS Investigator Dr Mingming Gong for securing funding in the Discovery Early Career Researcher Award 2021 round 1.
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We sought collaborative interdisciplinary projects that join data science with expertise from other domains, you sent in a large number of strong expressions of interest!
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Congratulations to two MCDS Academic Convenors, A/Prof Irma Mooi-Reci and Dr Martin Tomko, for securing funding in the recent Australian Research Council Special Research Initiative 2020 round.
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Melbourne Centre for Data Science is very pleased to co-present session three of the Potter Museum of Art's upcoming forum - "MACHINE".
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We're seeking Expressions of Interest for new interdisciplinary projects that join data science expertise with expertise from other domains.
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A look at Victoria's COVID-19 testing strategy
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Chris Baker and Jeremy Silver have each been awarded competitive grant funding for individual projects under the AI for Decision Making Initiative in the area of Machine Learned Models from Simulation Data.
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Newly released research on decision science addresses the need to look more closely at both the field’s strengths and the gaps in methodology and application.
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Funding for an Australian Research Council Industrial Transformation Training Centre (ITTC) in Optimisation Technologies, Integrated Methodologies and Applications (OPTIMA) has been announced
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We're hosting a monthly virtual seminar series through 2020!
Events
Upcoming MCDS Events
Past MCDS events
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POSTPONED TO 2022 - Institute of Mathematical Statistics Asia Pacific Rim MeetingEvent
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Friday 10am - 11amMCDS Seminar Series: Objective physical activity monitoring using wearable devices (VIDEO RECORDING AND SLIDES AVAILABLE)Event
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Friday 10am - 11amMCDS Seminar Series: Some challenges in combating disinformation on social media (VIDEO RECORDING AND SLIDES AVAILABLE)Event
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Thursday 12:30pm - 1:30pmMaths of EpidemiologyEvent
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Thursday 5:30pm - 7:15pmMCDS Seminar Series special event jointly hosted by AURIN: Urban Analytics and Modelling the Pandemic (VIDEO RECORDING AND SLIDES AVAILABLE)Event
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Friday 10am - 11amMCDS Seminar Series: Google Dataset Search - Building an open ecosystem for dataset discovery (VIDEO RECORDING AND SLIDES AVAILABLE)Event
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Friday 10am - 11amQMNET Talk: Missing Data Imputation with Low Rank ModelsEvent
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Friday 10am - 11amMCDS Seminar Series: Scaling and Generalising Approximate Bayesian Inference (VIDEO RECORDING AND SLIDES AVAILABLE)Event
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Friday 10am - 11amMCDS Seminar Series: Interpretability vs. Explainability in Machine Learning (VIDEO RECORDING AND SLIDES AVAILABLE)Event
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Friday 10am - 11amMCDS Seminar Series: Latent-state models for precision medicine (VIDEO RECORDING AND SLIDES AVAILABLE)Event
Directors and Executive
- Howard Bondell
Professor
Co-Director, MCDS
School of Mathematics and Statistics
Faculty of Science
- Michael Kirley
Associate Professor
Co-Director, MCDS
School of Computing and Information Systems
Melbourne School of Engineering
- Kirsten Doert Eccles
Executive Officer, MCDS
Melbourne Centre for Data Science
Faculty of Science
Associates
- Tomohiro Ando
Associate Professor
Academic Convenor, MCDS
Melbourne Business School
Faculty of Business and Economics
- Chris Baker
Research Fellow, MCDS
School of Mathematics and Statistics
Faculty of Science
- Sarah Monazam Erfani
Senior Lecturer
Academic Convenor, MCDS
School of Computing and Information Systems
Melbourne School of Engineering
- Lyle Gurrin
Professor
Academic Convenor, MCDS
School of Population and Global Health
Faculty of Medicine, Dentistry and Health Sciences
- Charles Hill
Lecturer
Academic Convenor, MCDS
School of Physics
Faculty of Science
- Timothy Kariotis
Research Fellow In Regulation And Design
Academic Convenor, MCDS
Melbourne School Of Government
Faculty of Law
- Irma Mooi-Reci
Associate Professor
Academic Convenor, MCDS
School of Social and Political Sciences
Faculty of Law
- Peta Masters
Research Fellow, MCDS
School of Computing and Information Systems
Melbourne School of Engineering
- Goce Ristanoski
Research Fellow, Medical Data Mining
Academic Convenor, MCDS
School of Computing And Information Systems
Melbourne School of Engineering
- Jeremy Silver
Research Fellow, MCDS
School of Mathematics and Statistics
Faculty of Science
- Hamed Soleimani
Research Fellow, MCDS
School of Mathematics and Statistics
Faculty of Science
- Jason Thompson
Arc Early Career Research Fellow (Decra)
Academic Convenor, MCDS
Melbourne School of Design
Faculty of Architecture, Building And Planning
- Martin Tomko
Senior Lecturer
Academic Convenor, MCDS
School of Electrical, Mechanical and Infrastructure Engineering
Melbourne School of Engineering
- Weichang Yu
Research Fellow, MCDS
School of Mathematics and Statistics
Faculty of Science
- Michael Zyphur
Associate Professor
Academic Convenor, MCDS
Department of Management and Marketing
Faculty of Business and Economics
Investigators
MCDS is pleased to have a large and growing group of researchers from a wide variety of domain specialties
- Dr Adrian Bickerstaffe, Senior Research Fellow - System Analyst
Melbourne School of Population and Global Health
Faculty of Medicine, Dentistry and Health Sciences - Dr Khandis Blake, Lecturer in Psychology
Melbourne School of Psychological Sciences
Faculty of Medicine, Dentistry and Health Sciences - Dr Renata Borovica-Gajic, Lecturer in Data Analytics
School of Computing and Information Systems
Melbourne School of Engineering - A/Prof Douglas Boyle, Rural Health Research/Informatics Research
Department of General Practice
Faculty of Medicine, Dentistry and Health Sciences - Dr Lucas Calais Ferreira, Research Assistant in Justice Health
Melbourne School of Population and Global Health
Faculty of Medicine, Dentistry and Health Sciences - Ms Ximena Camacho, Director of Population Health Data Analytics
Centre for Digital Transformation of Health
Faculty of Medicine, Dentistry and Health Sciences - Dr Daniel Capurro, Senior Lecturer in Digital Health
School of Computing and Information Systems
Melbourne School of Engineering - Dr Marc Cheong, Research Fellow in Digital Ethics
School of Computing and Information Systems
Melbourne School of Engineering - Dr Holly Chinnery, Senior Lecturer
School of Optometry and Vision Services
Faculty of Medicine, Dentistry and Health Sciences - Dr Tingjin Chu, Lecturer in Statistics
School of Mathematics and Statistics - Dr Koen Degeling, Research Fellow
Melbourne School of Population and Global Health
Faculty of Medicine, Dentistry and Health Sciences - Prof Simon Dennis, Director and Professor
Complex Human Data Hub
Melbourne School of Psychological Sciences
Faculty of Medicine, Dentistry and Health Sciences - Dr Maria Di Biase, Research Fellow
Department of Psychiatry
Faculty of Medicine, Dentistry and Health Sciences - A/Prof Laura Downie, Associate Professor and Dame Kate Campbell Fellow
Department of Optometry And Vision Sciences
Faculty of Medicine, Dentistry and Health Sciences - Dr Kris Ehinger, Senior Lecturer in Digital Health
School of Computing and Information Systems
Melbourne School of Engineering - Dr Nic Geard, Senior Lecturer
School of Computing and Information Systems
Melbourne School of Engineering - Dr Mingming Gong, Lecturer in Statistics (Data Science)
School of Mathematics and Statistics
Faculty of Science - Prof John Hopper, NHMRC Senior Principal Research Fellow
Melbourne School of Population and Global Health
Faculty of Medicine, Dentistry and Health Sciences - Wei Huang, Lecturer in Mathematical Statistics
School of Mathematics and Statistics
Faculty of Science - Dr Hadi Akbarzadeh Khorshidi, Research Fellow
School of Computing and Information Systems
Melbourne School of Engineering - Dr Sue Malta, Manager, Twins Research Australia
Melbourne School of Population and Global Health
Faculty of Medicine, Dentistry and Health Sciences - Dr Miriam Mosing, Senior Research Fellow
Melbourne School of Psychological Sciences
Faculty of Medicine, Dentistry and Health Sciences - Dr Douglas Pires, Senior Lecturer in Digital Health
School of Computing and Information Systems
Melbourne School of Engineering - Dr Vlada Rozova, Research Fellow in Applied AI in Medicine
School of Computing and Information Systems
Melbourne School of Engineering - A/Prof Ben Rubinstein, Associate Professor and Associate Dean (Research)
School of Computing and Information systems
Melbourne School of Engineering - Yuji Saikai, Teaching Specialist
School of Mathematics and Statistics
Faculty of Science - A/Prof Agus Salim, Associate Professor in Biostatistics
Melbourne School Of Population And Global Health
Faculty of Medicine, Dentistry and Health Sciences - Prof Michael Smith, Professor in Business Administration
Melbourne Business School
Faculty of Business and Economics - Dr Matthew Tam, Lecturer in Operations Research
School of Mathematics and Statistics
Faculty of Science - Prof Karin Verspoor, Professor
School of Computing and Information Systems
Melbourne School of Engineering - Dr Georgia Warren-Myers, Senior Lecturer in Property
Faculty of Architecture, Business and Planning - Prof Stephan Winter, Professor, Spatial Information Science
Department of Infrastructure Engineering
Melbourne School of Engineering - Dr Jesse Young, Research Fellow: Justice Health Program
Melbourne School of Population and Global Health
Faculty of Medicine, Dentistry and Health Sciences
Job opportunities
OPEN - Research Fellow in Data Science
Centre: Melbourne Centre for Data Science
Department/School: School of Computing and Information Systems
Division/Faculty: Melbourne School of Engineering
Salary: Level A
Advertised closing date: 26 Nov 2020, 11:55pm
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OPEN - Lecturer in Data Science and Statistics
Department/School: School of Mathematics and Statistics
Division/Faculty: Faculty of Science
Salary: Level B
Advertised closing date: 15 Dec 2020, 11:55pm
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Participate in our Centre
In alignment with our vision, there are multiple ways to participate in or collaborate with the Melbourne Centre for Data Science.