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<html> <head> <title>Kee Siong's Homepage</title> </head> <body bgcolor=grey text=white> <h2>A/Prof Kee Siong Ng</h2> <img src="Kee_Siong_Ng_CECS_web-9187.jpg" width=400> <br><br><br> I am a (part-time) Associate Professor in ANU's newly formed Software Innovation Institute (SII) and one of the first two <a href="http://www.anu.edu.au/news/all-news/meet-one-of-our-2018-translational-fellows-%E2%80%93-kee-siong-ng">Translational Fellows</a> appointed through ANU's Entrepreneurial Academic Scheme. <br><br> I have more than 15 years of post-PhD experience in multiple domains, including government, financial services, retail, telco, energy, and manufacturing. I have consulted for many large enterprises in Asia-Pacific-Japan and act as a trusted advisor for many industry colleagues. <br><br> I maintain a blog here: <a href="http://mentalmodels4life.net">http://mentalmodels4life.net</a><br><br> <h2>Research Group</h2> I lead the Data Science for Public Good (DS PuG) team at ANU. Here are some of the people associated with the team:<br> <ul> <li><a href="https://cecs.anu.edu.au/people/alex-antic">Dr Alex Antic</a>, Senior Lecturer, SII <li><a href="https://users.cecs.anu.edu.au/~u4534172">Dr Alex Mathews</a>, Research Fellow, SII <li><a href="https://www.linkedin.com/in/kelvin-yang-li-b86a3780">Yang Li (Kelvin)</a>, Research Fellow, SII <li>Dr Dawei Chen, Research Engineer, SII <li>Kieran Ricardo, Research Engineer, <li><a href="https://users.cecs.anu.edu.au/~jwl">Emeritus Professor John Lloyd</a>, RSCS <li>Tianyu Wang, PhD student <li>Samuel Yang-Zhao, PhD student </ul> These non-technical articles describe our current focus pretty well <ul> <li><a href="https://mentalmodels4life.net/2017/07/08/detecting-financial-crimes-limitations-of-the-current-state-and-a-way-forward">Detecting Financial Crimes: Current State, Limitations, and A Way Forward</a> <li><a href="https://mentalmodels4life.net/2018/08/12/the-financial-intelligence-ecosystem">The Financial Intelligence Ecosystem</a> <li><a href="https://mentalmodels4life.net/2017/08/27/how-to-instantly-and-meaningfully-improve-the-financial-systems-collective-ability-to-detect-crimes">How to Quickly and Meaningfully Improve the Financial System's Collective Ability to Detect Crimes</a> <li><a href="https://mentalmodels4life.net/2018/04/15/large-scale-distributed-analytics-a-research-program">Large-Scale Distributed Analytics: A Research Program</a> <li><a href="https://mentalmodels4life.net/agile-data-science">Agile Data Science</a> </ul> <h2>Selected Publications</h2> <ul> <li><a href="https://arxiv.org/abs/1712.09691">Scalable Entity Resolution Using Probabilistic Signatures on Parallel Databases</a><br> Y. Zhang, K.S. Ng, T. Churchill, P. Christen, CIKM, 2018. <li><a href="https://arxiv.org/abs/1708.01402">Exploiting Redundancy, Recurrence and Parallelism: How to Link Millions of Addresses with Ten Lines of Code in Ten Minutes</a><br> Y. Zhang, T. Churchill, K.S. Ng, AusDM, 2017 <li><a href="http://www.hutter1.net/publ/problogic.pdf">Probabilities on Sentences in an Expressive Logic</a><br> M. Hutter, J.W. Lloyd, K.S. Ng, W. Uther, Journal of Applied Logic, 2013. <li><a href="https://www2.eecs.berkeley.edu/Pubs/TechRpts/2012/EECS-2012-38.pdf">The MADlib Analytics Library or MAD Skills, the SQL</a><br> J. Hellerstein et al, VLDB 2012. <li><a href="https://arxiv.org/abs/1111.3182">Context Tree Switching</a><br> J. Veness, K.S. Ng, M. Hutter, M. Bowling, IEEE Data Compression Conference, 2012 <li><a href="https://www.jair.org/index.php/jair/article/view/10685">A Monte Carlo AIXI Approximation</a><br> J. Veness, K.S. Ng, M. Hutter, W. Uther, D. Silver, JAIR, 2011. (Honorable Mention for 2014 IJCAI-JAIR Best Paper Prize) <li><a href="https://mentalmodels4life.files.wordpress.com/2015/08/jaamas.pdf">Declarative Programming for Agent Applications</a><br> J.W. Lloyd, K.S. Ng, JAAMAS, 2011. <li><a href="https://mentalmodels4life.files.wordpress.com/2015/08/prihol.pdf">Probabilistic Modelling, Inference and Learning using Logical Theories</a><br> K.S. Ng, J.W. Lloyd, W. Uther, AMAI, 2008 <li><a href="pls.pdf">A Simple Explanation of Partial Least Squares</a><br> K.S. Ng, Tech Report, 2013 </ul> <a href="http://mentalmodels4life.net/publications">A more complete list</a> <br> <h2>Software</h2> I was a committer for the open-source <a href="http://madlib.net">Apache MADlib project</a>, which seeks to foster innovation in large-scale in-database analytics.<br><br> Download the latest version of <A HREF="http://rsise.anu.edu.au/~kee/Alkemy/">Alkemy</A>. (Escher is now incorported into Alkemy.)<br> Download the latest version of <a href="http://rsise.anu.edu.au/~kee/Escher">Escher</a>. See also the <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Escher_(programming_language)">Wikipedia entry</a> on Escher.<br> Bach is a work-in-progress, but a version of the system is available for experimentation on request.<br> Here's the literate program <a href="bach.pdf">An Implementation of Bach</a>.<br><br>