My research interests include extending kernel algorithms and applications of machine learning to bioinformatics. Some recent projects are alternative splicing, protein subcellular localization and spliced alignment. I am also interested in open source software for machine learning. We are advocating this via a JMLR special track as well as a community site.

I completed my PhD titled "Kernels: Regularization and Optimization", at the Australian National University in 2005. I was a student at the Computer Sciences Laboratory of the Research School of Information Sciences and Engineering. I had a 6 month postdoc at the Statistical Machine Learning Group, in NICTA, Canberra, and I'm currently a postdoc at both the Max Planck Institute of Biological Cybernetics and the Fredrich Miescher Laboratory.