Brief CV

• September 2002 - Present:

  PhD Student in Computer Science at Cornell University.
  My advisor is Thorsten Joachims.
  My minor is in Business Management.

• May 2007 - August 2007:

  Summer Intern in the Search group at Yahoo! Research.

• May 2005 - August 2005:

  Summer Intern in the ASI group at Microsoft Research.

• March 1998 - July 1999, August 2001 - July 2002:

  Bachelors with Honours, Australian National University.
  (First Class Honours in Computer Science, with University Medal).

• September 1999 - May 2000:

  Undergraduate Exchange to Pennsylvania State University.

Recent Awards & Scholarships

• I am currently supported during the academic year by a 2006-2007 Microsoft Research Fellowship sponsored by Microsoft Live Labs.
• Best Student Paper Award, KDD 2005 for F. Radlinski and T. Joachims, Query Chains: Learning to Rank from Implicit Feedback.
• I'm a Fulbright scholar from Australia.

Teaching

• Fall 2005: Teaching Assistant for CS 472.
• Spring 2004: Teaching Assistant for CS 478.

Professional Activities

• I was co-chair of the first North East Student Colloquium on AI, NESCAI '06.
• I was on the program committee for the following conferences:
  AAAI 2006; SIGIR 2006, 2007, 2008; KDD 2008
• I was a non-program committee reviewer for the following conferences:
  WWW 2005, 2006; NIPS 2006; AAAI 2007; KDD 2005; ECML/PKDD 2004; ICDM 2004, 2005; KI 2007.
• I was a reviewer or program committee member for the following workshops:
  Query Log Analysis at WWW 2007; ITWP07 at AAAI 2007; LR4IR at SIGIR 2007, 2008; NESCAI 2007, 2008; WebKDD at KDD 2006.
• I'm on the Cornell CS Computing Facilites Support advisory committee.

Miscellaneous

• Machine Learning at Cornell.
• I'm a hockey czar for CS Ice Hockey!
• I was involved in starting the test prep site number2.com.
• I helped write Talks @ CS.
• Australians and New Zealanders at Cornell.