Biography
Professor Justin Zobel is leading the Computing for Life Sciences initiative within National ICT Australia's Victorian Laboratory. He received his PhD from the University of Melbourne and for many years was based in the School of CS&IT at RMIT University, where he led the Search Engine group. He is an Editor-in-Chief of the International Journal of Information Retrieval, an associate editor of ACM Transactions on Information Systems and of Information Processing & Management, and was until recently Treasurer of ACM SIGIR. In the research community, he is best known for his role in the development of algorithms for efficient text retrieval. He is the author of "Writing for Computer Science" and his interests include search, bioinformatics, fundamental data structures, and research methods.
Research Expertise and International Linkages
Research Expertise
| Research Interest |
Country of Expertise |
| Search engines and information retrieval |
Australia |
| Algorithms and data structures |
Australia |
| Bioinformatics and health informatics |
Australia |
| Research methods |
Australia |
Qualifications, Honours, Fellowships and Other
Awards
Qualifications
| Title |
Institution |
Date Awarded |
Abbreviation |
| PhD |
University of Melbourne |
21-Aug-1991 |
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| BACHELOR OF SCIENCE (HONS) |
University of Melbourne |
31-Dec-1985 |
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| BACHELOR OF SCIENCE |
University of Melbourne |
31-Dec-1983 |
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Other Awards
| Award Type |
Awarding Body |
Comments |
Date Awarded |
| Other (Award) |
The Australasian Association of Computer Science Departments |
Elected President in 2008 and 2009 |
01-Jan-2008 |
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 |
| Methodologies for Designing and Evaluating Information Retrieval Experiments |
Chief Investigator |
AUST RESEARCH COUNCIL |
Discovery Projects |
01/01/2007 |
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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