BIO
Peter Christen is a professor at the Research School of Computer Science at the Australian National University. He received his Diploma in Computer Science Engineering from ETH Zurich in 1995 and his PhD in Computer Science from the University of Basel in 1999. His research interests are in data mining and record linkage, with a focus on machine learning and privacy-preserving techniques for record linkage. He has published over 140 articles in these areas, including in 2012 the book Data Machine published by Springer. For more details see: http://cs.anu.edu.au/people/Peter.Christen/