BOARD OF ADVISORS

DL Informatique relies on the wisdom and experience of the following international researches in Artificial Intelligence and Industrialist.

Mark Ranford is the founder and CEO of Stratagility. Mark graduated with a First Class Honours degree in Mathematics and Computing, as well as a Masters in Knowledge Systems. Working in IT and Financial services for over 15 years, his experience spans a broad range of roles including:  knowledge engineering, knowledge management, project management, consulting, product management, sales and channel management. Mark’s last post before founding Stratagility was at Accellion where he effectively built a whole new line of business for the company in the Internet Backup area. This Backup service counts two of the worlds largest PC manufacturers as its resellers and now represents Accellion’ s dominant source of revenue. His endeavour in creating a Backup service encapsulates his bold approach to strategy. Envisioning and then creating the future to ones own advantage. At heart, Marks nature has always been entrepreneurial. He thinks of himself best as an “Imagineer”. His inspirations are: Senge, Prahalad & Hamel, Nonaka & Drexler. With Stratagility, Mark is building a business that helps others repeatedly innovate to create new business, a capability that he terms “Strategic Agility”. Stratagility offers services in Strategy, Innovation and Knowledge Management.

Dr. Jirapun Daengdej received his Ph.D. in Computer Science from the University of New England, Australia. He is the author of more than 30 research papers for both international conferences and journals. His latest publications are published in the 2005 IEEE Aerospace conference organized by NASA. His researches include Case-Based Reasoning, Intelligent database, Machine Learning, Software reuse, Software quality assurance, and Software testing.

 He also works as a consultant for a number of large IT projects. Some of his recent works include in-house IT consultant for Industrial Estate Authority of Thailand, software quality assurance leader for the second Bangkok international airport's IT and X-Ray system of its cargo free zone, database system consultant for the development of Immigration system for both the second Bangkok international airport and their head office, and technical consultant for NoMagic Asia Company, the company which specialize in software development using Object-Oriented technologies, especially Java and UML.

Professor Webb is widely regarded as Australia’s leading data mining researcher as well as one of the country’s leading data mining practitioners.  His research is grounded in theory but guided by practical issues and problems.  He has developed numerous practical algorithms as well as contributing to fundamental data mining theory.  Many of his algorithms have been implemented in software that is widely used internationally.  He has commercialised his exploratory rule discovery algorithms as the Magnum Opus software system, which is successfully marketed internationally by Rulequest Research Pty Ltd (http://www.rulequest.com).

CURRENT APPOINTMENTS: 

Research Professor, Faculty of Information Technology, Monash University, Clayton.

Managing Director, G. I. Webb & Associates Pty Ltd. Developers of best-in-class Magnum Opus data mining software, marketed internationally by Rulequest Research.  

PREVIOUS EMPLOYMENT:

Oct 1998 – July 2002           Personal Chair   Continuing.    School of Computing and Mathematics, Deakin University, Geelong

July 1988-Oct 1998             Lecturer/Senior Lecturer/Reader   Continuing. 
Deakin University,  Geelong.

Nov 1986-June 1988           Lecturer   Continuing.
Griffith University, Brisbane.

DIRECTORSHIPS

1999–                              G I Webb & Associates Pty. Ltd.

ADVISORY BOARDS

2004–                              DL Informatique Sdn. Bhd., Malaysia.

Professor Eric Tsui

Eric Tsui joined Computer Sciences Corporation (CSC) in 1989 after years of academic research in automated knowledge acquisition, natural language processing, case-based reasoning and knowledge engineering tools. His research was supported by grants and scholarships from Arthur Young, Rank Xerox, CSC, Graphic Directions, and the Australian Research Council. He was also a gratis visitor to Microsoft Research in February, 2000.

Since August 2000, he has taken up the role of Innovation Manager at Australian Mutual Provident (AMP). Eric is responsible for strategic research, knowledge brokering (between CSC and AMP), innovation management and university-industry collaborations.

His research interests are on the role of information technologies in supporting knowledge processes and communities, the interplay between Knowledge Management and E-Learning, and the applicable tools and skills for individual knowledge workers (as opposed to enterprise KM). As a recipient of CSC’s Leading Edge Forum (LEF) Technology Grant in 2002, he carried out research into “Technologies for Personal and Peer-to-Peer Knowledge Management” out of which the research report was one of the top 10 downloaded documents from www.csc.com in September, 2002. He has delivered numerous KM and Portals presentations and workshops in Asia, Australia and the US.

In his academic capacities, Eric has designed and delivered KM, AI, BPR, Portal, and MIS courses at the University of Sydney, University of Technology, Sydney, University of New South Wales, RMIT University, University of Kentucky, The Hong Kong Polytechnic University and City University of Hong Kong. He is the program co-leader of a forthcoming master degree in Knowledge Management to be delivered in an online blended learning environment. He has B.Sc. (Hons.), PhD and MBA qualifications.

As the Professor of Knowledge Management at the Hong Kong Polytechnic University, Eric operates from two bases (Sydney and Hong Kong) and spends between 3 to 4 months per year in Asia.

Chengqi Zhang has been a Research Professor in Faculty of Information Technology at University of Technology, Sydney (UTS) since 2001. He received a PhD degree from the University of Queensland, Brisbane in Computer Science and a Doctor of Science (higher doctorate) degree from Deakin University, Australia. His research interests include Data Mining and Multi-Agent Systems. He has published about 100 refereed papers and three monographs, including 12 top-journal papers in Artificial Intelligence, Information Systems and IEEE/ACM Transactions. He is the leader of Data Mining Program in Capital Market Cooperative Research Centre and a member of UTS Research Management Committee. He is a Senior Member of the IEEE Computer Society (IEEE), a member of Steering Committee of PRICAI (Pacific Rim International Conference on Artificial Intelligence) and PAKDD (Pacific-Asia Conference on Knowledge Discovery and Data Mining), serving as an Associate Editors for three international journals, including IEEE Transactions on Knowledge and Data Mining, served as General Chair, PC Chair, or Organizing Chair for four international Conferences and a member of Program Committees for many international or national conferences. His personal web page is at http://www-staff.it.uts.edu.au/~chengqi/.