Bob McKay

Brief Curriculum Vitae 15/07/04

Position

Teaching

Undergraduate

• Computer Languages A
• Computer Languages B
• Data Structures for Engineers
  

Postgraduate

• Machine Learning
• Languages of the Web
• Web Design

Postgraduate Research Supervision

• Mr Nathan Clapham (PhD candidate - supervisor) - connectivity and synchronicity in complex systems
• Mr Lee Mansfield (PhD candidate - co-supervisor) - Mobile Agents in Intrusion Detection Systems
• Ms Minh Ha Nguyen (PhD candidate - co-supervisor) - co-evolving Morphology and Mind
• Capt. Hoai Xuan Nguyen (PhD candidate - supervisor) - Tree Adjunct Grammars for Genetic Programming
• Mr Shan Yin (PhD candidate - supervisor) - Estimation of Distribution Algorithms and Grammar-Guided Genetic Programming
  
• Mr Wang Biao (PhD Candidate - supervisor) - Combining Ontologies and Clustering for Document Search

In the past, I have been a thesis adviser to the following successful projects:

• Mr Phill Berrie (MInfSc, 1999) - computational systems for scholarly editions
• Mr Nathan Bracken (MSc major project, 2000) - phased array radar optimisation via evolutionary computation
• Mr Nathan Bracken (BSc Hons 1, 1999) - Automated Mapping of MUDs
• Mr Rex (Yu Wai) Chor (MInfSc, 1995) - Expert Systems for Environmental Management
• Dr Paul Darwen (PhD, 1996) - Coevolution and Diversity in Evolutionary Computation
• Dr Kay Fielden (MSc 1988) - Human - Computer Interfaces
• Mr Kim McClymont (MInfSc, 1996) - Higher Order Logic Databases
• Mr Andrew Scheiffers (BSc Hons 2a, 2001) - XML in Organisations
• Dr Peter Whigham (PhD, 1996) - Grammars, Genetic Programming and Ecological Modelling
• Dr Yong Liu (PhD, 1999) - Evolutionary Neural Networks

Research Interests

• genetic programming
• more generally, nature-inspired algorithms for relational learning
• evolutionary computation
  
• application of AI techniques, especially relational machine learning, to natural resource problems
• application of AI techniques to web understanding
• agent systems for military simulation

Publications

Academic/Service Roles

• Member of the IEEE Neural Network Council Technical Committee on Evolutionary Computation
• Member of the ACS National Committee on Artificial Intelligence and Expert Systems.
• Member of the steering committee for the Simulated Evolution And Learning (SEAL) series of conferences
• Member of the steering committee for the Australia-Japan workshop series on simulated evolution and learning
• Senior Member of the Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers

Conferences

• General chair, 2003 International Congress on Evolutionary Computation
• Program committee co-chair, 2002 Australian Joint Artificial Intelligence Conference
• Organising committee chair, 2002 Australia-Japan Workshop on Intelligent and Evolutionary Systems
• Member, organising committee, 2002 Australian Joint Artificial Intelligence Conference
• Member, scientific committee, 2002 3rd International Society for Ecological Informatics Conference
• Member, program committee, 2002 NASA/DOD Workshop on Evolvable Hardware
• Member, organising committee, Computational Intelligence Symposium, International Conference on Communications, Circuits and Systems 2002
• Member, program committee, 2002 Congress on Evolutionary Computation
• Publicity co-chair, 2001 Congress on Evolutionary Computation
• Member, program committee, 2001 Congress on Evolutionary Computation
• Member, program committee, 2001 Genetic and Evolutionary Computation Conference
• Member, program committee, 2001 NASA/DOD Workshop on Evolvable Hardware
• Member, program committee, 2000 Congress on Evolutionary Computation
• Organising committee chair, 1999 Australia-Japan Workshop on Intelligent and Evolutionary Systems
• Organising committee chair, 1998 Simulated Evolution And Learning conference (SEAL98)
• Member, organising committee, 1997 Australia-Japan Workshop on Intelligent and Evolutionary Systems
• Organising Committee Chair of the 1995 Australian AI conference
• Organising committee, 1994 workshop on natural resource applications, Australian AI conference
• Coordinator, 1993 workshop on natural resource applications, Australian AI conference of workshops on natural resource applications of AI at the 1993 and 1994 Australian AI conference.

Editorships etc

• Associate editor, IEEE Transactions on Evolutionary Computation
• Regional editor, International Journal of Knowledge-Based Intelligent Engineering Systems
• Joint editor, special issue of Applied Intelligence on Simulated Evolution and Learning, 15(3), Nov/Dec. 2001
• Joint editor, special issue International Journal of Knowledge-Based Intelligent Engineering Systems 4(3), July 2000
• Joint Editor, Proceedings of the 1999 Australia-Japan Workshop on Intelligent and Evolutionary Systems
• Joint Editor, Springer Lecture Notes in Artificial Intelligence 1585, 1999
• Joint Editor, Proceedings of the 1998 Simulated Evolution And Learning conference (SEAL98)
• Joint editor, Proceedings of the 1997 Australia-Japan Workshop on Intelligent and Evolutionary Systems
• Joint editor, AI Applications special issue 8(3) 1994
• Joint editor, Proceedings 1993 workshop on natural resource applications, Australian AI conference

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10/2/2002