Biography
Alistair Moffat completed a BSc(Honors) and PhD in 1979 and 1986 respectively, both at the University of Canterbury in New Zealand. Since than he has been a member of the academic staff at the University of Melbourne, where he holds appointments as Professor of Computer Science (2002-), and as Head of the Department of Computer Science and Software Engineering (2007-2009).
Alistair has extensive research interests in the areas of text and index compression, source coding methods, and information retrieval. He is an author of three books (Managing Gigabytes, 1999; Compression and Coding Algorithms, 2002; and Programming, Problem Solving and Abstraction with C, 2003); and of more than 150 refereed technical papers.
Alistair was awarded a Carrick Citation for Excellence in Teaching and Learning in the first round of these awards in 2006, and has also been recognized within the University for his teaching contributions.
Research Expertise and International Linkages
Research Expertise
| Research Interest |
Country of Expertise |
| Information retrieval and text search |
Australia |
International Linkages
Qualifications, Honours, Fellowships and Other
Awards
Qualifications
| Title |
Institution |
Date Awarded |
Abbreviation |
| Bachelor of Science |
University of Canterbury |
31-Dec-1979 |
|
| Doctor of Philosophy |
University of Canterbury |
31-May-1986 |
|
Memberships
| Membership Type |
Membership Body |
Description |
Start Date |
End Date |
| Member |
Association for Computing Machinery |
|
01-Jan-1980 |
31-Dec-2020 |
Other Awards
| Award Type |
Awarding Body |
Comments |
Date Awarded |
| Prize |
Carrick Institute for Learning and Teaching in Higher Education |
|
06-Jul-2006 |
Government Research Classifications
Research Fields, Courses and Discipline Classifications
Socio-Economic Objective Classifications
Grants and Contracts
Research Grants, Contracts and Consultancies awarded to the University of Melbourne as the administering institution (since 2003) as recorded in Themis Agreements.
Grants
| Title |
Role |
Funding Source |
Scheme |
Award Date |
| ARC Centre for Perceptive and Intelligent Machines in Complex Environments |
Chief Investigator |
MONASH UNIVERSITY,
AUST RESEARCH COUNCIL |
Centres of Excellence (AUST RESEARCH COUNCIL) |
01/01/2004 |
| Methodologies for Designing and Evaluating Information Retrieval Experiments |
Chief Investigator |
AUST RESEARCH COUNCIL |
Discovery Projects |
01/01/2007 |
| Static and Dynamic Query Pruning Techniques for Complex Text Retrieval Systems |
Chief Investigator |
AUST RESEARCH COUNCIL |
Discovery Projects |
01/01/2008 |
| DYNAMIC INDEX MAINTENANCE FOR TEXT SEARCH ENGINES |
Chief Investigator |
RMIT |
Discovery Projects (AUST RESEARCH COUNCIL) |
|
Publications
Publications produced at the University of Melbourne and reported in the Annual Publications Collection and 'Research Report' since 2001. The Themis Publications module, released in November 2006, allows additional publications from previous institutions and publications from past years to be entered.
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