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Artificial intelligence can feel highly technical and even a bit daunting for many people. At CommBank, we have spent th… LinkedIn · Dec 2025
Back in Sydney after an intense week at NeurIPS, I had the chance to hear Prof. shafi goldwasser speak at the University… LinkedIn · Dec 2025
See you at NeurIPS in Sydney next year! LinkedIn · Dec 2025
Day 1 at NeurIPS 2025 — what a start! LinkedIn · Dec 2025
We were pleased to welcome researchers from the University of Sydney to Commonwealth Bank this week for an engaging work… LinkedIn · Nov 2025
Last week at SXSW Sydney 2025, I joined two great panels exploring how AI is reshaping the future of finance. LinkedIn · Oct 2025
Just wrapped up a fantastic week in Adelaide where CommBank AI team spent with the Australian Institute for Machine Lear… LinkedIn · Sep 2025
I will never code an app again Medium · Sep 2025
🚀 FastVLM dropped on Hugging Face yesterday 🤗 … and today I’m shipping an app using it to the App Store, with zero prior… LinkedIn · Sep 2025
On Monday, I had the privilege of speaking at #AICon2025, calling for Australian industries to be bolder in investing in… LinkedIn · Aug 2025
GenAICam - Privacy Blog · Aug 2025
GenAICam Blog · Aug 2025
Thank you, CommBank, for featuring me in this post! LinkedIn · Aug 2025
A Robust and Efficient Pipeline for Enterprise-Level Large-Scale Entity Resolution Scholar · 2025 IEEE International Conference on Big Data (IEEE BigData), 2025, pp. 2359–2368. · Aug 2025
FeatureCuts: Feature Selection for Large Data by Optimizing the Cutoff Scholar · 2025 IEEE International Conference on Big Data (IEEE BigData), 2025, pp. 2308–2319. · Aug 2025
Amazing opportunity in Adelaide to help us build the next foundational models, advance and guide our AI research agenda. LinkedIn · Jul 2025
I will never survey a person again Medium · Jun 2025
I will never survey a person again! LinkedIn · Jun 2025
Thank you for the award! Congratulations @CommBank team! X · Jun 2025
Thank you ACM UMAP for the best paper award! LinkedIn · Jun 2025
And it's a wrap for CVPR 2025! It was incredible to see the Commonwealth Bank alongside the world's top tech companies.… LinkedIn · Jun 2025
Synthetic Voices: Evaluating the Fidelity of LLM-Generated Personas in Representing People’s Financial Wellbeing Scholar · User Modeling, Adaptation, and Personalization · Jun 2025
Going to Nashville today as @CommBank is sponsoring the Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition Conference (@CVPR). Loo… X · Jun 2025
I'm traveling to Nashville today as Commonwealth Bank is proudly sponsoring the IEEE/CVF Computer Vision and Pattern Rec… LinkedIn · Jun 2025
It's not every day you have the chance to meet your idols. LinkedIn · May 2025
ConCISE: A Reference-Free Conciseness Evaluation Metric for LLM-Generated Answers Scholar · arXiv preprint. November 2025. [[PDF]](https://arxiv.org/pdf/2511.16846) [[arXiv]](https://arxiv.org/abs/2511.16846) · Jan 2025
I had the absolute pleasure to represent Commonwealth Bank at NeurIPS. Anna Leontjeva and I discussed our work on LLM pe… LinkedIn · Dec 2024
Heading to #NeurIPS this week, where @CommBank is proud to be a sponsor. We’ll also be presenting a paper at the confere… X · Dec 2024
Heading to #NeurIPS this week, where Commonwealth Bank is proud to be a sponsor. We’ll also be presenting a paper at the… LinkedIn · Dec 2024
This is an incredible chance for an early-career academic to make a real difference in the world of foundational AI. You… LinkedIn · Nov 2024
Do LLM Personas Dream of Bull Markets? Comparing Human and AI Investment Strategies Through the Lens of the Five-Factor Model Scholar · NeurIPS 2024 Workshop Open-World Agents · Oct 2024
I’m very privileged to have a fulfilling career which I’ve taken on large challenges and have mostly succeeded in creati… LinkedIn · Oct 2024
I’m thrilled to embark on this journey on Foundational AI research with the University of Adelaide and the Australian I… LinkedIn · Sep 2024
Another great opportunity to help make brighter happen for our customers and Australia! LinkedIn · Sep 2024
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 … LinkedIn · Aug 2024
A couple of weeks ago, Belinda White, Oliver Fleming, PhD, Andrijana Sarac and I had the privilege to spend two days wit… LinkedIn · Aug 2024
I will never be tired of repeating this: Commonwealth Bank is an amazing place to apply your data science and AI skills… LinkedIn · Jul 2024
I spent last week in Bengaluru with our CBA India team. Thank you for the warm welcome and it was great to finally meet … LinkedIn · Jun 2024
Some weeks are bigger than others. This was a big one. LinkedIn · May 2024
Looking forward to speak at the upcoming 2024 Australian Corporate Treasury Association ‘s Future Treasury Professionals… LinkedIn · May 2024
Proud to have Commonwealth Bank sponsor this National AI Centre event to help bring the benefits of AI to all Australian… LinkedIn · May 2024
I will never produce a music video again Medium · Apr 2024
I will never produce a music video again LinkedIn · Apr 2024
Looking forward to hear from this great group of AI leaders! LinkedIn · Mar 2024
❤️🇦🇺 A 20 year love story with Australia LinkedIn · Feb 2024
CommBank’s true commitment to support people’s careers and ensure the work is meaningful and truly matters to bring a br… LinkedIn · Jan 2024
We just open sourced our models for the detection of transaction abuse! LinkedIn · Nov 2023
Feeling honoured to come back to University of Sydney as an industry advisory board member to help steer the future of C… LinkedIn · Oct 2023
Australia, we need to invest in AI, science and technology! LinkedIn · Sep 2023
What an inspirational start of ACM RecSys! LinkedIn · Sep 2023
Flying to Singapore today to co-chair the industry track of ACM RecSys. This was a near year long work from myself (Comm… LinkedIn · Sep 2023
I will never take a selfie again Medium · Sep 2023
I will never take a selfie again. LinkedIn · Sep 2023
I will never manage a football club again Medium · Aug 2023
I will never manage a football club again LinkedIn · Aug 2023
I will never reply to an email again Blog · Aug 2023
I will never reply to an email again Medium · Jul 2023
I will never reply to an email again LinkedIn · Jul 2023
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 … LinkedIn · May 2023
Calling all companies innovating and deploying Recommender Systems a.k.a. "the algorithm". Submission deadline for indus… LinkedIn · May 2023
I’m thrilled to announce that our technical paper on using machine learning to detect abuse in transactions descriptions… LinkedIn · Mar 2023
This is such an exciting partnership! I’m looking forward to see if we can convert data and insights to many goals for o… LinkedIn · Feb 2023
Detection of Abuse in Financial Transaction Descriptions Using Machine Learning. Scholar · arXiv e-prints. March 2023. [[PDF]](https://arxiv.org/pdf/2303.08016) [[arXiv]](https://arxiv.org/abs/2303.08016) · Jan 2023
Our H2O World presentation on how Commonwealth Bank is working with H2O.ai to make the world a safer place from transac… LinkedIn · Dec 2022
What an informative panel conversation moderated by Thireindar Min with Stela SOLAR (she/her), Sonal Surana and David Ro… LinkedIn · Nov 2022
Last hours in Seattle and I go for one last coffee. Serendipitously bumped into Dr. Yushan Chen, Co-Founder and Chief En… LinkedIn · Sep 2022
Today was the last day of ACM RecSys in Seattle, and I had the pleasure to give an invited talk on how Commonwealth Bank… LinkedIn · Sep 2022
Yesterday I had the pleasure to discuss a new problem on multi-stakeholder, multi-objective recommender with many expert… LinkedIn · Sep 2022
See you soon #recsys. It will be a long trip between Sydney - Seattle but it will be worth catching up the latest in the… LinkedIn · Sep 2022
Honoured to join this talented group in helping steer the future of analytics education in such a future thinking univer… LinkedIn · Sep 2022
Data scientists - come and join us! LinkedIn · Aug 2022
So thrilled to have the opportunity to present our research on recommendations for CommBank Rewards at ACM RecSys 2022 i… LinkedIn · Jul 2022
Join H2O.ai and Commonwealth Bank in a joint data science meetup next week. We will talk about how our AI models are hel… LinkedIn · May 2022
How good is working on really impactful AI projects like this? Come and join Anna Leontjeva and our team, we are hiring!… LinkedIn · Apr 2022
This is absolutely global leading and a prime example on how AI can be used for social good. Anna Leontjeva’s leadership… LinkedIn · Mar 2022
Do you love data science innovation and want to use your skills to really help people? Join us in our mission to bring a… LinkedIn · Mar 2022
PD-SRS: Personalized Diversity for a Fair Session-Based Recommendation System Scholar · Service-Oriented Computing. ICSOC 2022. Lecture Notes in Computer Science, vol 13740. Springer, Cham. · Jan 2022
Are you a data scientist who wants to apply your skills to what really matters? Look no further! LinkedIn · Nov 2021
Super proud of our work using machine learning to detect and prevent abuse in the payments platform. LinkedIn · Oct 2021
We are hiring! Come and join the best AI team in the world (I am unashamedly biased) where we make a difference to peopl… LinkedIn · Oct 2021
This is a prime example of how we tackle difficult problems and make sure we use our data science skills for social good… LinkedIn · Sep 2021
This is an amazing organisation who is helping so many people break away from isolation and abuse. Please consider donat… LinkedIn · Jun 2021
Very proud to be part of this video and campaign. CommBank is one of the most exciting companies to work for any data sc… LinkedIn · May 2021
We had the pleasure to talk to Gabriel Moreira from NVIDIA in our “AI Frontiers: conversations with AI Labs”. It was a … LinkedIn · Mar 2021
I simply love my job. We come every day to work and we ask one simple question: how can we positively impact our custome… LinkedIn · Mar 2021
I’m very proud to be part of the team enabling this solution to our customers X · Mar 2021
A fairness-aware multi-stakeholder recommender system Scholar · World Wide Web (2021). · Jan 2021
Reciprocal Recommender Systems: Analysis of state-of-art literature, challenges and opportunities towards social recommendation Scholar · Information Fusion, Volume 69, 2021, Pages 103-127, ISSN 1566-2535, · Jan 2021
Great to be on holidays and to receive the news that our paper is published. LinkedIn · Jan 2020
An Ethical Multi-Stakeholder Recommender System Based on Evolutionary Multi-Objective Optimization Scholar · 2020 IEEE International Conference on Services Computing (SCC), 2020, pp. 478-480, · Jan 2020
Multistakeholder recommendation: Survey and research directions. Scholar · In User Modeling and User-Adapted Interaction (UMUAI). January 2020, Volume 30, Issue 1, pp 127-158 [[Springer]](https:/ · Jan 2020
Reciprocal Recommender Systems: Analysis of State-of-Art Literature, Challenges and Opportunities towards Social Recommendation Scholar · arXiv e-prints. Jul 2020. [[PDF]](https://arxiv.org/pdf/2007.16120v2) [[arXiv]](https://arxiv.org/abs/2007.16120) · Jan 2020
Oportunidade para engenheiros brasileiros de PLN com experiência em síntese de fala na Amazon/AWS Inglaterra ou Polônia. LinkedIn · Nov 2019
Great to see our work on Homomorphic Encryption highlighted in Accenture's Point of View on Privacy Preserving Computing… LinkedIn · Oct 2019
PyHeal is released Blog · Aug 2019
PyHeal is out! Our open source Python library that makes any development with homomorphic encryption super easy. LinkedIn · Aug 2019
Join us! Positions open in Sydney and Perth. LinkedIn · Jul 2019
Join us! Positions open in Sydney and Perth. LinkedIn · Jul 2019
We are hiring! Feel free to DM for any questions. LinkedIn · Jul 2019
Last night's presentation at the Sydney Data Science MeetUp! LinkedIn · Jun 2019
How to build Machine Learning Algorithms using Homomorphic Encryption Blog · Jun 2019
I’m presenting “How to build machine learning algorithms using Homomorphic Encryption” at the Sydney Data Science MeetUp… LinkedIn · Jun 2019
Always fun to talk about the things you love. This time, talking at an AWS event on AI/ML in Melbourne about our excitin… LinkedIn · Mar 2019
AWS Learning Series - Collaborating on Data and AI Models Blog · Mar 2019
Beyond Personalization: Research Directions in Multistakeholder Recommendation. Scholar · arXiv e-prints. May 2019. [[PDF]](https://arxiv.org/pdf/1905.01986) [[arXiv]](https://arxiv.org/abs/1905.01986) · Jan 2019
DJ Bax - Week 7 of the road to AWS re:Invent LinkedIn · Nov 2018
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… X · Oct 2018
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… LinkedIn · Oct 2018
Oportunidade sensacional para Brasileiros com formação em linguística ou computação e PLN na Amazon na Inglaterra ou Pol… LinkedIn · Mar 2018
We are hiring Data Scientists and Full-Stack Engineers X · Mar 2018
We are hiring Data Scientists and Full-Stack Engineers LinkedIn · Mar 2018
Watch the People Recommender Tutorial @ RecSys 2016 Blog · Apr 2017
Pathways from a PhD at the Macquarie Minds Showcase Blog · Dec 2016
People Recommendation Tutorial Blog · Oct 2016
Teaching Data Science in Hong Kong Blog · Oct 2016
Join us the tutorial on people recommendations by @ido_guy and me at the MIT Stratton Student Center #recsys2016 X · Sep 2016
Hong Kong Harbour @ One Exchange Square X · Sep 2016
Having a great time teaching a group of amazing students @GA_HongKong X · Aug 2016
Quick stopover at @GA_SF before going to @GA_HongKong to teach data science. So impressed with learning environment X · Jun 2016
Final 2 days to submit a paper for the Workshop on Social Recommender Systems @ KDD 2015 http://t.co/sEGUy9YzUD X · Jun 2015
Final 2 days to submit a paper for the Workshop on Social Recommender Systems @ KDD 2015 https://lnkd.in/bm_B4Tp LinkedIn · Jun 2015
The Ethics of Online Dating Panel Blog · Apr 2015
On 702 ABC Sydney Blog · Mar 2015
We've launched our new app Foster Friends. LinkedIn · Dec 2014
Path from Research to Industry Blog · Jun 2014
Negotiate like a billionaire Blog · Feb 2014
Welcome Blog · Feb 2014
Just read a great article on the perils of positive thinking by @oliverburkeman on @TheNewPhil X · Feb 2014
Just found out about Formula E (http://t.co/RhZfOXSRSu ). Finally something interesting in the motor-sport scene! #Formu… X · Dec 2013
Would this work? A dating site for families to find new friends when they move to a new city http://t.co/Ne8XzDXWPv @oct… X · Dec 2013
Kudos to @pollenizer and @philmorle for the great first dat at the Lean StartUp Bootcamp @murudau X · Dec 2013
Part 1 of the Beyond Friendship Tutorial at Recsys 2013 http://t.co/tjnwKOYR8Z X · Oct 2013
Part 1 of the Beyond Friendship Tutorial at Recsys 2013 LinkedIn · Oct 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… X · Aug 2013
Call for Papers: ICDM Workshop on Recommender Systems for Social Networks (RESSON 2013): http://t.co/U0ysD9CD9v X · Jul 2013
Call for Papers: ICDM Workshop on Recommender Systems for Social Networks (RESSON 2013) LinkedIn · Jul 2013
Very nice table, now they just need Cruiser on top to be perfect @aecollins1 @CHAIresearch @smartservices http://t.co/Cw… X · Jun 2013
Great talk by Hamish Petrie at #cebitstartups #ingogo #moshtix X · May 2013
Very well timed article. We are currently working on a paper for the cold start problem but looking at the perspective o… LinkedIn · Apr 2013
Great talk by Anind K. Dey at the #hctworkshop2013 about using smart devices to understand people's behaviour #usyd X · Apr 2013
There is still time to sign up for the human centred technology workshop #hctworkshop2013 happing next Tues at #usyd htt… X · Mar 2013
Interesting article, I certainly agree that secrecy does not scale. However, this model assumes that a secret is atomic.… LinkedIn · Mar 2013
@rainer_wasinger from @Sydney_Uni and @smartservices speaking at #MoMoSyd tonight about the http://t.co/mlsNSr28 platfor… X · Feb 2013
Recommending people to people: The nature of reciprocal recommenders with a case study in online dating. Scholar · User Modeling and User-Adapted Interaction (UMUAI). November 2013, Volume 23, Issue 5, pp 447-488 · Jan 2013
Scrutable User Models and Personalised Item Recommendation in Mobile Lifestyle Applications. Scholar · Proceedings of the 21st International Conference on User Modeling, Adaptation and Personalization (UMAP 2013). Rome, Ita · Jan 2013
The effect of suspicious profiles on people recommenders. Scholar · Proceedings of the 20th International Conference on User Modeling, Adaptation and Personalization (UMAP 2012). Montreal, · Jan 2012
Using Wikipedia and Conceptual Graph Structures to Generate Questions for Academic Writing Support. Scholar · IEEE Transactions on Learning Technologies, vol. 5, no. 3, pp. 251-263, Third Quarter 2012 · Jan 2012
Explicit and implicit user preferences in online dating. Scholar · New Frontiers in Applied Data Mining, volume 7104 of Lecture Notes in Computer Science, pages 15–27. Springer Berlin / H · Jan 2012
We are building a community around recommender systems in Australia. If you are involved in recommender research, go joi… LinkedIn · Oct 2011
Stochastic Matching and Collaborative Filtering to Recommend People to People Scholar · RecSys '11: Proceedings of the Fifth ACM Conference on Recommender Systems. Chicago, 23-27 October 2011 · Jan 2011
CCR - A Content-Collaborative Reciprocal Recommender for Online Dating Scholar · Proceedings of the 22nd International Joint Conference on Artificial Intelligence (IJCAI 2011). Barcelona, Spain. 16-22 · Jan 2011
Finding someone you will like and who won't reject you. Scholar · Proceedings of the 19th International Conference on User Modeling, Adaptation and Personalization (UMAP 2011). Girona, S · Jan 2011
Learning User Preferences in Online Dating. Scholar · Proceedings of the Workshop on Preference Learning (PL-10) at the European Conference on Machine Learning and Principles · Jan 2010
RECON: A Reciprocal Recommender for Online Dating. Scholar · RecSys '10: Proceedings of the Fourth ACM Conference on Recommender Systems. Barcelona, 26-30 September 2010 · Jan 2010
Reciprocal Recommender System for Online Dating Scholar · RecSys '10 (demonstration session): Proceedings of the Fourth ACM Conference on Recommender Systems. Barcelona, 26-30 Se · Jan 2010
Reciprocal Recommenders. Scholar · Proceedings of the Workshop on Intelligent Techniques for Web Personalization & Recommender Systems (ITWP'10) at User Mo · Jan 2010
Indexing on Semantic Roles for Question Answering. Scholar · Proceedings of the Coling 2008 Workshop Information Retrieval for Question Answering (IR4QA-08). Manchester, August, 200 · Jan 2008
Question Prediction Language Model. Scholar · Proceedings Australasian Language Technology Workshop 2007, Melbourne, December 2007. · Jan 2007
Pseudo Relevance Feedback Using Named Entities for Question Answering. Scholar · In Proceedings of the Australasian Language Technology Workshop 2006. Sydney University, November 2006. · Jan 2006
Extracting Exact Answers using a Meta Question Answering System. Scholar · Proceedings of the Australasian Language Technology Workshop 2005. The University of Sydney, Australia, December 10-11, · Jan 2005
Classifying Sentences using Induced Structure. Scholar · Proceedings of the Twelfth Symposium on String Processing and Information Retrieval (SPIRE-2005). Buenos Aires, Argentin · Jan 2005
Using a Trie-based Structure for Question Analysis. Scholar · Proceedings of the Australasian Language Technology Workshop 2004. Macquarie University, Sydney, Australia, December 8, · Jan 2004
Evaluation of a Thesaurus-Based Query Expansion Technique. Scholar · Proceedings of the 6th Workshop on Computational Processing of the Portuguese Language - Written and Spoken. Lecture Not · Jan 2003
Query Expansion Based on Thesaurus Relations: Evaluation over Internet. Scholar · Computational Linguistics and Intelligent Text Processing, Lecture Notes in Computer Science. Vol. 2588. ISBN 3-540-0053 · Jan 2003