Buntine Wray L.

Wray Buntine is a full professor at VinUniversity, Hanoi, from 2022 and recently at Monash University, Melbourne. At Monash, starting 2014, he was foundation director of the Master of Data Science and director of the Machine Learning Group. He was also previously at NICTA in Canberra, Australia and Helsinki Institute for Information Technology where he ran a semantic search project, NASA Ames Research Center, University of California, Berkeley, and Google. In the '90s he was involved in a number of startups for both Wall Street and Silicon Valley. He is known for his theoretical and applied work and in probabilistic methods for document and text analysis, social networks, data mining and machine learning. He is on several journal editorial boards and has been senior programme committee member for premier conferences such as IJCAI, UAI, ACML and SIGKDD. He has over 200 academic publications, several software products and two patents.