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Artificial intelligence can feel highly technical and even a bit daunting for many people. At CommBank, we have spent th…
Back in Sydney after an intense week at NeurIPS, I had the chance to hear Prof. shafi goldwasser speak at the University…
See you at NeurIPS in Sydney next year!
Day 1 at NeurIPS 2025 — what a start!
We were pleased to welcome researchers from the University of Sydney to Commonwealth Bank this week for an engaging work…
Last week at SXSW Sydney 2025, I joined two great panels exploring how AI is reshaping the future of finance.
Just wrapped up a fantastic week in Adelaide where CommBank AI team spent with the Australian Institute for Machine Lear…
I will never code an app again
🚀 FastVLM dropped on Hugging Face yesterday 🤗 … and today I’m shipping an app using it to the App Store, with zero prior…
On Monday, I had the privilege of speaking at #AICon2025, calling for Australian industries to be bolder in investing in…
GenAICam - Privacy
GenAICam
Thank you, CommBank, for featuring me in this post!
A Robust and Efficient Pipeline for Enterprise-Level Large-Scale Entity Resolution
FeatureCuts: Feature Selection for Large Data by Optimizing the Cutoff
Amazing opportunity in Adelaide to help us build the next foundational models, advance and guide our AI research agenda.
I will never survey a person again
I will never survey a person again!
Thank you for the award! Congratulations @CommBank team!
Thank you ACM UMAP for the best paper award!
And it's a wrap for CVPR 2025! It was incredible to see the Commonwealth Bank alongside the world's top tech companies.…
Synthetic Voices: Evaluating the Fidelity of LLM-Generated Personas in Representing People’s Financial Wellbeing
Going to Nashville today as @CommBank is sponsoring the Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition Conference (@CVPR). Loo…
I'm traveling to Nashville today as Commonwealth Bank is proudly sponsoring the IEEE/CVF Computer Vision and Pattern Rec…
It's not every day you have the chance to meet your idols.
ConCISE: A Reference-Free Conciseness Evaluation Metric for LLM-Generated Answers
I had the absolute pleasure to represent Commonwealth Bank at NeurIPS. Anna Leontjeva and I discussed our work on LLM pe…
Heading to #NeurIPS this week, where @CommBank is proud to be a sponsor. We’ll also be presenting a paper at the confere…
Heading to #NeurIPS this week, where Commonwealth Bank is proud to be a sponsor. We’ll also be presenting a paper at the…
This is an incredible chance for an early-career academic to make a real difference in the world of foundational AI. You…
Do LLM Personas Dream of Bull Markets? Comparing Human and AI Investment Strategies Through the Lens of the Five-Factor Model
I’m very privileged to have a fulfilling career which I’ve taken on large challenges and have mostly succeeded in creati…
I’m thrilled to embark on this journey on Foundational AI research with the University of Adelaide and the Australian I…
Another great opportunity to help make brighter happen for our customers and Australia!
Are you a data science leader who wants to innovate and do good for Australia and the world? Come and join us and we'll …
A couple of weeks ago, Belinda White, Oliver Fleming, PhD, Andrijana Sarac and I had the privilege to spend two days wit…
I will never be tired of repeating this: Commonwealth Bank is an amazing place to apply your data science and AI skills…
I spent last week in Bengaluru with our CBA India team. Thank you for the warm welcome and it was great to finally meet …
Some weeks are bigger than others. This was a big one.
Looking forward to speak at the upcoming 2024 Australian Corporate Treasury Association ‘s Future Treasury Professionals…
Proud to have Commonwealth Bank sponsor this National AI Centre event to help bring the benefits of AI to all Australian…
I will never produce a music video again
I will never produce a music video again
Looking forward to hear from this great group of AI leaders!
❤️🇦🇺 A 20 year love story with Australia
CommBank’s true commitment to support people’s careers and ensure the work is meaningful and truly matters to bring a br…
We just open sourced our models for the detection of transaction abuse!
Feeling honoured to come back to University of Sydney as an industry advisory board member to help steer the future of C…
Australia, we need to invest in AI, science and technology!
What an inspirational start of ACM RecSys!
Flying to Singapore today to co-chair the industry track of ACM RecSys. This was a near year long work from myself (Comm…
I will never take a selfie again
I will never take a selfie again.
I will never manage a football club again
I will never manage a football club again
I will never reply to an email again
I will never reply to an email again
I will never reply to an email again
I can’t think of more exciting careers than the ones in the STEM areas, but even those not in STEM can be enhanced with …
Calling all companies innovating and deploying Recommender Systems a.k.a. "the algorithm". Submission deadline for indus…
I’m thrilled to announce that our technical paper on using machine learning to detect abuse in transactions descriptions…
This is such an exciting partnership! I’m looking forward to see if we can convert data and insights to many goals for o…
Detection of Abuse in Financial Transaction Descriptions Using Machine Learning.
Our H2O World presentation on how Commonwealth Bank is working with H2O.ai to make the world a safer place from transac…
What an informative panel conversation moderated by Thireindar Min with Stela SOLAR (she/her), Sonal Surana and David Ro…
Last hours in Seattle and I go for one last coffee. Serendipitously bumped into Dr. Yushan Chen, Co-Founder and Chief En…
Today was the last day of ACM RecSys in Seattle, and I had the pleasure to give an invited talk on how Commonwealth Bank…
Yesterday I had the pleasure to discuss a new problem on multi-stakeholder, multi-objective recommender with many expert…
See you soon #recsys. It will be a long trip between Sydney - Seattle but it will be worth catching up the latest in the…
Honoured to join this talented group in helping steer the future of analytics education in such a future thinking univer…
Data scientists - come and join us!
So thrilled to have the opportunity to present our research on recommendations for CommBank Rewards at ACM RecSys 2022 i…
Join H2O.ai and Commonwealth Bank in a joint data science meetup next week. We will talk about how our AI models are hel…
How good is working on really impactful AI projects like this? Come and join Anna Leontjeva and our team, we are hiring!…
This is absolutely global leading and a prime example on how AI can be used for social good. Anna Leontjeva’s leadership…
Do you love data science innovation and want to use your skills to really help people? Join us in our mission to bring a…
PD-SRS: Personalized Diversity for a Fair Session-Based Recommendation System
Are you a data scientist who wants to apply your skills to what really matters? Look no further!
Super proud of our work using machine learning to detect and prevent abuse in the payments platform.
We are hiring! Come and join the best AI team in the world (I am unashamedly biased) where we make a difference to peopl…
This is a prime example of how we tackle difficult problems and make sure we use our data science skills for social good…
This is an amazing organisation who is helping so many people break away from isolation and abuse. Please consider donat…
Very proud to be part of this video and campaign. CommBank is one of the most exciting companies to work for any data sc…
We had the pleasure to talk to Gabriel Moreira from NVIDIA in our “AI Frontiers: conversations with AI Labs”. It was a …
I simply love my job. We come every day to work and we ask one simple question: how can we positively impact our custome…
I’m very proud to be part of the team enabling this solution to our customers
A fairness-aware multi-stakeholder recommender system
Reciprocal Recommender Systems: Analysis of state-of-art literature, challenges and opportunities towards social recommendation
Great to be on holidays and to receive the news that our paper is published.
An Ethical Multi-Stakeholder Recommender System Based on Evolutionary Multi-Objective Optimization
Multistakeholder recommendation: Survey and research directions.
Reciprocal Recommender Systems: Analysis of State-of-Art Literature, Challenges and Opportunities towards Social Recommendation
Oportunidade para engenheiros brasileiros de PLN com experiência em síntese de fala na Amazon/AWS Inglaterra ou Polônia.
Great to see our work on Homomorphic Encryption highlighted in Accenture's Point of View on Privacy Preserving Computing…
PyHeal is released
PyHeal is out! Our open source Python library that makes any development with homomorphic encryption super easy.
Join us! Positions open in Sydney and Perth.
Join us! Positions open in Sydney and Perth.
We are hiring! Feel free to DM for any questions.
Last night's presentation at the Sydney Data Science MeetUp!
How to build Machine Learning Algorithms using Homomorphic Encryption
I’m presenting “How to build machine learning algorithms using Homomorphic Encryption” at the Sydney Data Science MeetUp…
Always fun to talk about the things you love. This time, talking at an AWS event on AI/ML in Melbourne about our excitin…
AWS Learning Series - Collaborating on Data and AI Models
Beyond Personalization: Research Directions in Multistakeholder Recommendation.
DJ Bax - Week 7 of the road to AWS re:Invent
Our Liquid Studio team is building a robotic DJ to play at the AWS re:Invent 2018 in Las Vegas. Stay tuned for some real…
Our Liquid Studio team is building a robotic DJ to play at the AWS re:Invent 2018 in Las Vegas. Stay tuned for some real…
Oportunidade sensacional para Brasileiros com formação em linguística ou computação e PLN na Amazon na Inglaterra ou Pol…
We are hiring Data Scientists and Full-Stack Engineers
We are hiring Data Scientists and Full-Stack Engineers
Watch the People Recommender Tutorial @ RecSys 2016
Pathways from a PhD at the Macquarie Minds Showcase
People Recommendation Tutorial
Teaching Data Science in Hong Kong
Join us the tutorial on people recommendations by @ido_guy and me at the MIT Stratton Student Center #recsys2016
Hong Kong Harbour @ One Exchange Square
Having a great time teaching a group of amazing students @GA_HongKong
Quick stopover at @GA_SF before going to @GA_HongKong to teach data science. So impressed with learning environment
Final 2 days to submit a paper for the Workshop on Social Recommender Systems @ KDD 2015 http://t.co/sEGUy9YzUD
Final 2 days to submit a paper for the Workshop on Social Recommender Systems @ KDD 2015 https://lnkd.in/bm_B4Tp
The Ethics of Online Dating Panel
On 702 ABC Sydney
We've launched our new app Foster Friends.
Path from Research to Industry
Negotiate like a billionaire
Welcome
Just read a great article on the perils of positive thinking by @oliverburkeman on @TheNewPhil
Just found out about Formula E (http://t.co/RhZfOXSRSu ). Finally something interesting in the motor-sport scene! #Formu…
Would this work? A dating site for families to find new friends when they move to a new city http://t.co/Ne8XzDXWPv @oct…
Kudos to @pollenizer and @philmorle for the great first dat at the Lean StartUp Bootcamp @murudau
Part 1 of the Beyond Friendship Tutorial at Recsys 2013 http://t.co/tjnwKOYR8Z
Part 1 of the Beyond Friendship Tutorial at Recsys 2013
Hi @phelo just noticed you have a paper to be published in Sydney in a few days. Are you coming over to this side of the…
Call for Papers: ICDM Workshop on Recommender Systems for Social Networks (RESSON 2013): http://t.co/U0ysD9CD9v
Call for Papers: ICDM Workshop on Recommender Systems for Social Networks (RESSON 2013)
Very nice table, now they just need Cruiser on top to be perfect @aecollins1 @CHAIresearch @smartservices http://t.co/Cw…
Great talk by Hamish Petrie at #cebitstartups #ingogo #moshtix
Very well timed article. We are currently working on a paper for the cold start problem but looking at the perspective o…
Great talk by Anind K. Dey at the #hctworkshop2013 about using smart devices to understand people's behaviour #usyd
There is still time to sign up for the human centred technology workshop #hctworkshop2013 happing next Tues at #usyd htt…
Interesting article, I certainly agree that secrecy does not scale. However, this model assumes that a secret is atomic.…
@rainer_wasinger from @Sydney_Uni and @smartservices speaking at #MoMoSyd tonight about the http://t.co/mlsNSr28 platfor…
Recommending people to people: The nature of reciprocal recommenders with a case study in online dating.
Scrutable User Models and Personalised Item Recommendation in Mobile Lifestyle Applications.
The effect of suspicious profiles on people recommenders.
Using Wikipedia and Conceptual Graph Structures to Generate Questions for Academic Writing Support.
Explicit and implicit user preferences in online dating.
We are building a community around recommender systems in Australia. If you are involved in recommender research, go joi…
Stochastic Matching and Collaborative Filtering to Recommend People to People
CCR - A Content-Collaborative Reciprocal Recommender for Online Dating
Finding someone you will like and who won't reject you.
Learning User Preferences in Online Dating.
RECON: A Reciprocal Recommender for Online Dating.
Reciprocal Recommender System for Online Dating
Reciprocal Recommenders.
Indexing on Semantic Roles for Question Answering.
Question Prediction Language Model.
Pseudo Relevance Feedback Using Named Entities for Question Answering.
Extracting Exact Answers using a Meta Question Answering System.
Classifying Sentences using Induced Structure.
Using a Trie-based Structure for Question Analysis.
Evaluation of a Thesaurus-Based Query Expansion Technique.
Query Expansion Based on Thesaurus Relations: Evaluation over Internet.