Photo of Mark Reid at work

I’m a post-doctoral Research Fellow in the Research School of Information Sciences and Engineering at the Australian National University in Canberra, Australia. I work with other members of the Artificial Intelligence group. As of July 2009, I also work part-time with NICTA’s Machine Learning research group.

Contact

I can be reached at work by phone on (+61) 2 6267 6297, by email at mark.reid@anu.edu.au. My office is on the 3rd floor of the NICTA Canberra Research Lab (Map).

News

1 May 2012: My three ICML 2012 submissions (with various co-authors) were accepted. See my publications page for more details. See you in Edinburgh!

8 March 2012: The video of my talk, Anatomy of a Learning Problem at the Relations Between Machine Learning Problems NIPS Workshop is up at videolectures.

31 January 2012: My paper with Nicolás Della Penna, Crowds & Prejudice: An Impossibility Theorem for Crowd Labelling with a Gold Standard was accepted to Collective Intelligence 2012.

Objective

My research vision can be distilled down to wanting to build theoretical and practical foundations for wide-spread, machine-assisted inference.

Theoretically, I have been working on exploring representations of and relationships between various types of learning problems in order to better understand the panoply of problems machine learning tackles. Practically, I have been developing a specification for exposing machine learning algorithms, taks, and predictors as web resources.

Publications

I have published papers on topics in learning theory, transfer learning, reinforcement learning, data visualisation, and inductive logic programming. A complete list of my publications is available, the most recent of which is:

Teaching

I co-lectured a course on Information Theory (COMP2610) with Edwin Bonilla in the second semester of 2011.

Students

I am currently primary supervisor for three PhD students:Avi Ruderman, Nicolás Della Penna, and Mindika Premachandra.

I am also currently an advisor for five other PhD students: Ehsan Abbasnejad, Changyou Chen, Peter Gammie, Ayman Ghoneim, and Wen Shao.

I am not looking to supervise any more students at present.

Blog

Since September 2007 I have kept a blog on machine learning and statistical inference called inductio ex machina.

Activities

I am currently part of the program committee for ICML 2012 and ACML 2012.

I was local organiser for ALT 2010 as well as a member of its Program Committee. I have reviewed for journals (JMLR, JAIR, PAMI, TCS, and Trans. on Info. Theory), conferences (NIPS, ICML, COLT, and UAI), and have also set up a discussion site for ICML 2008, 2009 and 2010 and presented at the 2009 Machine Learning Summer School. I also participate in the Mathematicians in Schools program as a partner with Yass High School.