Dr François Petitjean
Former ARC DECRA Fellow
I am was an Academic at Monash University.
I used to do research in Machine Learning.
I built models for Environmental and Social Good.
Leaving academia
In 2020, I decided to leave Academia after 11 terrific years in research and more than 7 years at Monash University.
I am excited to join the Australian Government where I hope to serve people more directly.
My dear AI research people, be well, compete less, and keep in mind the discriminations that the systems we develop might bring.
News
| September 2020 | Check out our Melbourne Friend Zone map! |
| September 2019 | I visit Prof Themis Palpanas give a seminar at Université de Paris. |
| September 2019 | I give an invited talk at the AALTD workshop at ECML/PKDD. |
| July 2019 | Our beautiful land-cover map of Victoria is online! |
| May 2019 | Our Proximity Forest paper for scalable time series classification is published in DAMI. |
| January 2019 | Our paper on deep learning for satellite image time series is published in Remote Sensing. |
| November 2018 | Myself and my colleagues Geoff Webb and Wray Buntine receive funding for our ARC Discovery Project! |
| May 2018 | Our SDM'18 paper obtains Best Paper Award! |
| April 2018 | Our FungalAI project on real-time surveillance of fungal infection from CT scans goes live. |
| March 2018 | Visiting Faculty in A/Prof Camille Kurtz' team at Paris Descartes University. |
| January 2017 | Dr Charlotte Pelletier and Benjamin Lucas join my research team. |
| January 2017 | Our 2 papers on Time series classification and parameter learning are accepted for SDM'18 - see Research. |
| Sep Dec 2017 | Visiting Faculty at NYU |
| November 2016 | Awarded a DECRA from the Australian Research Council! More details here |
| September 2016 | I receive the IBM Faculty Award - more details here |
| August 2016 | We give a tutorial at KDD'16 - see here |
| July 2016 | Have a look at our visualisation of the S&P500 |
| May 2016 | Our paper on multiple hypotheses testing accepted for KDD'16! |
| September 2016 | I receive a $80,000 (USD) grant from the US Air Force - more details here |
| May 2016 | I was fortunate to be awarded the Winner of Victorian Young Achiever Award - Research Impact, sponsored by Victoria University |
| May 2016 | Our paper on Mining Interesting Sequential Patterns accepted to Data Mining and Knowledge Discovery |
| January 2016 | We give a tutorial at the 2016 Australian School of Information Theory - see here |
| December 2015 | Our paper on Concept Drift accepted to Data Mining and Knowledge Discovery |
| December 2015 | Our work led by Nayyar Zaidi accepted to PAKDD 2016 |
Where I have been
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Mar-Jul 2018 | Visiting Faculty at at Paris Descartes University; collaborating with A/Professor Camille Kurtz. |
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Sep-Dec 2017 | Visiting Faculty at NYU in the Center for Data Science; collaborating with Professor F. Provost. |
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September 2016 | Visiting researcher at Professor J. Inglada's lab at the French Space Agency. |
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April 2016 | Visiting researcher at Professor E. Keogh's lab. |
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May 2015 | Invited researcher at A/Professor G. Forestier's lab. |
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June 2014 | Visiting researcher at Dr C. Raissï's lab. |
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April-May-2014 | Visiting researcher at Professor E. Keogh's lab. |
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July 2013 | Visiting researcher at A/Professor G. Forestier's lab. |
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May 2011 | Visiting researcher at Professor M. Teisseire's lab at the Remote Sensing Center. |
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2009-2012 | Doctoral researcher at the French Space Agency, Thal�s and at the iCube laboratory. |
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2009-2012 | Teaching assistant at the Computer Science Department of the University of Strasbourg. |