Paul Kennedy
Associate Professor
Intelligence Centre
University of Technology Sydney
Australia
Biography
Dr Kennedy has been a General Chair of the Australasian Data Mining Conference (AusDM) since 2007 and has been coeditor of the AusDM proceedings since 2006. He has actively contributed to many international Program Committees and reviewed for international journals and books. He is an ARC Expert Assessor and has coauthored over 100 publications. He is a member of the industry body, the Institute of Analytic Professionals Australia. He has been awarded grants exceeding $718K.
Research Interest
Dr Kennedy's research interests are in data analytics of biomedical data, mainly collaborating with paediatric cancer researchers, since 2002, to better understand and predict treatment outcomes for childhood cancer sufferers. But he also explores other areas of data analytics and bioinformatics including developing bioinformatics pipelines to facilitate animal vaccine discovery and mapping collaboration among researchers. He also works on visualisation, text mining and social network analysis.
Publications
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Van A, Gay VC, Kennedy PJ, Barin E, Leijdekkers P. Understanding risk factors in cardiac rehabilitation patients with random forests and decision trees. InProceedings of the Ninth Australasian Data Mining Conference-Volume 121 2011 Dec 1 (pp. 11-22). Australian Computer Society, Inc..
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Meng Q, Kennedy PJ. Discovering influential authors in heterogeneous academic networks by a co-ranking method. InProceedings of the 22nd ACM international conference on Conference on information & knowledge management 2013 Oct 27 (pp. 1029-1036).
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Anaissi A, Kennedy PJ, Goyal M. Feature selection of imbalanced gene expression microarray data. InSoftware engineering, artificial intelligence, networking and parallel/distributed computing (snpd), 2011 12th acis international conference on 2011 Jul 6 (pp. 73-78). IEEE.
