Professor Irena Koprinska
I am Professor at the School of Computer Science, University of Sydney. My research is in Machine Learning, Data Mining and Neural Networks. I also teach courses in these areas -Introduction to Artificial Intelligence, and Machine Learning and Data Mining. I have received several best paper and other research awards and two times the Dean’s Award for Outstanding Teaching. I have supervised to completion 11 PhD and about 60 Honours thesis students, all in Machine Learning. My students have received many prizes and awards including the Google Fellowship in Machine Learning which recognises exceptional research and the prestigious ZONTA International Women in Technology Scholarship. I have been co-organising the Data Science for Social Good workshop at ECML PKDD since 2017. I am Associate Editor of the International Journal of Artificial Intelligence in Education (IJAIED) and the International Journal of Data Science and Analytics (IJDSA), and an editorial board member of the Journal of Educational Data Mining (JEDM) and Intelligent Data Analysis (IDA); I have taken leadership roles in leading conferences on Artificial Intelligence and Machine Learning and regularly serve on their program committees. I am currently the Associate Head Research Education for the School of Computer Science, and previously was the Sub-Dean Teaching and Learning for the Faculty of Engineering.
Machine Learning, Data Mining, Neural Networks
I am motivated by the many practical applications of machine learning, and their potential to benefit society. I develop algorithms that extract patterns from data and build models to help humans make better decisions. My work is multidisciplinary, involving experts from different areas. I am interested in both algorithms and applications, especially applications in education, health and energy.
For example, I have worked on machine learning for: (i) education - for understanding student behaviour and how it changes over time and for early prediction of at-risk students for timely intervention; (ii) health - for predicting medical conditions (sleep apnea, insomnia) based on health data recordings, for understanding immune response to diseases based on cytometry data, for predicting hospital admissions and length of stay; (III) enery - for predicting renewable energy generation (e.g. solar) and electricity demand from multiple time series data sources.
“I’m honoured to have worked with many wonderful students over the years – Honours, Dalyell/Talented Student/Special Projects, MPhil, PhD, visiting students - from Germany, Italy, Slovakia, France, Netherlands etc. This has been an inspirational and very rewarding experience.”
COMP3308 Introduction to Artificial Intelligence
COMP3608 Introduction to Artificial Intelligence (Advanced)
COMP5318 Machine Learning and Data Mining
COMP4318 Machine Learning and Data Mining
PhD and Master’s project opportunities
I am offering projects in Machine Learning, Data Mining and Neural Networks.
2017 and 2008, Dean’s Award for Outstanding Teaching (I received the Faculty Award)
2019, Best Paper Award at CHI 2019
2019, Winner of Dolby Paper Competition for our journal paper in Knowledge-Based Systems
2018, Thompson Research Fellowship, The University of Sydney
2019, Best Student Paper Award Finalist at ICONIP 2019
2018, Best Student Paper Award at ICONIP 2018
2017, JCAI 2017 paper featured in the press opening of the conference
2009, Best Student Paper Award at ADCS 2009
Project title | Research student |
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Deep Learning for Time Series Forecasting | Hanxue YAO |
Publications
Book Chapters
- Lin, Y., Koprinska, I., Rana, M., Troncoso, A. (2020). Solar Power Forecasting Based on Pattern Sequence Similarity and Meta-learning. In Igor Farkas, Paolo Masulli, Stefan Wermter (Eds.), Artificial Neural Networks and Machine Learning - ICANN 2020, (pp. 271-283). Cham: Springer. [More Information]
- Rana, M., Koprinska, I., Khosravi, A. (2015). Feature Selection for Interval Forecasting of Electricity Demand Time Series Data. In Petia Koprinkova-Hristova, Valeri Mladenov, Nikola K. Kasabov (Eds.), Artificial Neural Networks: Methods and Applications in Bio-/Neuroinformatics, (pp. 445-462). Heidelberg: Springer Science+Business Media. [More Information]
- Koprinska, I., Yacef, K. (2015). People to People Reciprocal Reccomenders. In F. Ricci, L. Rokach, B. Shapira (Eds.), Recommender Systems Handbook, (pp. 545-567). New York: Springer Science+Business Media. [More Information]
Journals
- Luo, L., Li, B., Fan, X., Wang, Y., Koprinska, I., Chen, F. (2023). Dynamic customer segmentation via hierarchical fragmentation-coagulation processes. Machine Learning, 112(1), 281-310. [More Information]
- Wang, E., Koprinska, I., Jeffries, B. (2023). Sleep Apnea Prediction Using Deep Learning. IEEE Journal of Biomedical and Health Informatics, 27(11), 5644-5654. [More Information]
- Putri, G., Chung, J., Edwards, D., Marsh-Wakefield, F., Koprinska, I., Dervish, S., King, N., Ashhurst, T., Read, M. (2023). TrackSOM: mapping immune response dynamics through clustering of time-course cytometry data. Cytometry Part A, 103(1), 54-70. [More Information]
Conferences
- McCloskey, S., Jeffries, B., Koprinska, I., Gordon, C., Grunstein, R. (2022). Insomnia Disorder Detection Using EEG Sleep Trajectories. Lecture Notes in Computer Science (including subseries Lecture Notes in Artificial Intelligence and Lecture Notes in Bioinformatics), : Springer Verlag.
- Gao, Y., Kholghi, M., Koprinska, I., Zhang, Q. (2021). Association of Longitudinal Sleep and Next-day Indoor Mobility Measured via Passive Sensors among Community-dwelling Older Adults. 43rd Annual International Conference of the IEEE Engineering in Medicine and Biology Society, EMBC 2021, Mexico: Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers (IEEE). [More Information]
- Paaßen, B., McBroom, J., Jeffries, B., Koprinska, I., Yacef, K. (2021). Next Steps for Next-step Hints: Lessons Learned from Teacher Evaluations of Automatic Programming Hints. 2021 Joint Workshops at the International Conference on Educational Data Mining, EDM-WS 2021, Germany: CEUR-WS.
2023
- Luo, L., Li, B., Fan, X., Wang, Y., Koprinska, I., Chen, F. (2023). Dynamic customer segmentation via hierarchical fragmentation-coagulation processes. Machine Learning, 112(1), 281-310. [More Information]
- Wang, E., Koprinska, I., Jeffries, B. (2023). Sleep Apnea Prediction Using Deep Learning. IEEE Journal of Biomedical and Health Informatics, 27(11), 5644-5654. [More Information]
- Putri, G., Chung, J., Edwards, D., Marsh-Wakefield, F., Koprinska, I., Dervish, S., King, N., Ashhurst, T., Read, M. (2023). TrackSOM: mapping immune response dynamics through clustering of time-course cytometry data. Cytometry Part A, 103(1), 54-70. [More Information]
2022
- McBroom, J., Koprinska, I., Yacef, K. (2022). A Survey of Automated Programming Hint Generation: The HINTS Framework. ACM Computing Surveys, 54(8), 172. [More Information]
- McCloskey, S., Jeffries, B., Koprinska, I., Gordon, C., Grunstein, R. (2022). Insomnia Disorder Detection Using EEG Sleep Trajectories. Lecture Notes in Computer Science (including subseries Lecture Notes in Artificial Intelligence and Lecture Notes in Bioinformatics), : Springer Verlag.
- Paassen, B., Koprinska, I., Yacef, K. (2022). Recursive tree grammar autoencoders. Machine Learning, 111(9), 3393-3423. [More Information]
2021
- Gao, Y., Kholghi, M., Koprinska, I., Zhang, Q. (2021). Association of Longitudinal Sleep and Next-day Indoor Mobility Measured via Passive Sensors among Community-dwelling Older Adults. 43rd Annual International Conference of the IEEE Engineering in Medicine and Biology Society, EMBC 2021, Mexico: Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers (IEEE). [More Information]
- Paassen, B., McBroom, J., Jeffries, B., Yacef, K., Koprinska, I. (2021). Mapping Python Programs to Vectors using Recursive Neural Encodings. Journal of Educational Data Mining (JEDM), 13(3), 1-35. [More Information]
- Paaßen, B., McBroom, J., Jeffries, B., Koprinska, I., Yacef, K. (2021). Next Steps for Next-step Hints: Lessons Learned from Teacher Evaluations of Automatic Programming Hints. 2021 Joint Workshops at the International Conference on Educational Data Mining, EDM-WS 2021, Germany: CEUR-WS.
2020
- McBroom, J., Yacef, K., Koprinska, I. (2020). DETECT: A hierarchical clustering algorithm for behavioural trends in temporal educational data. 21st International Conference on Artificial Intelligence in Education (AIED 2020), Cham: Springer. [More Information]
- Sharan, R., Berkovsky, S., Taib, R., Koprinska, I., Li, J. (2020). Detecting Personality Traits Using Inter-Hemispheric Asynchrony of the Brainwaves. 42nd Annual International Conferences of the IEEE Engineering in Medicine and Biology Society (EMBC 2020), : Springer Verlag. [More Information]
- Chen, Z., Koprinska, I. (2020). Ensemble Methods for Solar Power Forecasting. 2020 International Joint Conference on Neural Networks (IJCNN), Piscataway: Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers (IEEE). [More Information]
2019
- Torres, J., Troncoso, A., Koprinska, I., Wang, Z., Martinez-Alvarez, F. (2019). Big data solar power forecasting based on deep learning and multiple data sources. Expert Systems, 36(4), 1-14. [More Information]
- Putri, G., Read, M., Koprinska, I., Singh, D., Roehm, U., Ashhurst, T., King, N. (2019). ChronoClust: Density-based clustering and cluster tracking in high-dimensional time-series data. Knowledge-Based Systems, 174, 9-26. [More Information]
- McCloskey, S., Jeffries, B., Koprinska, I., Miller, C., Grunstein, R. (2019). Data-driven cluster analysis of insomnia disorder with physiology-based qEEG variables. Knowledge-Based Systems, 183, 1-11. [More Information]
2018
- McBroom, J., Yacef, K., Koprinska, I., Curran, J. (2018). A data-driven method for helping teachers improve feedback in computer programming automated tutors. 19th International Conference on Artificial Intelligence in Education (AIED 2018), Cham: Springer. [More Information]
- Koprinska, I., Wu, D., Wang, Z. (2018). Convolutional Neural Networks for Energy Time Series Forecasting. 2018 IEEE International Joint Conference on Neural Networks (IJCNN), Rio de Janeiro: Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers (IEEE). [More Information]
- Haidar, R., McCloskey, S., Koprinska, I., Jeffries, B. (2018). Convolutional Neural Networks on Multiple Respiratory Channels to Detect Hypopnea and Obstructive Apnea Events. 2018 IEEE International Joint Conference on Neural Networks (IJCNN), Rio de Janeiro: Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers (IEEE). [More Information]
2017
- Chow, S., Yacef, K., Koprinska, I., Curran, J. (2017). Automated data-driven hints for computer programming students. 25th ACM International Conference on User Modeling, Adaptation, and Personalization (UMAP 2017), New York: Association for Computing Machinery (ACM). [More Information]
- Luo, L., Liu, W., Koprinska, I., Chen, F. (2017). DAAR: A discrimination-aware association rule classifier for decision support. 17th International Conference on Big Data Analytics and Knowledge Discovery (DaWaK 2015), Cham: Springer. [More Information]
- Al-Ani, A., Koprinska, I., Naik, G. (2017). Dynamically identifying relevant EEG channels by utilizing channels classification behaviour. Expert Systems with Applications, 83, 273-282. [More Information]
2016
- Al-Ani, A., Koprinska, I., Naik, G., Khushaba, R. (2016). A Dynamic Channel Selection Algorithm for the Classification of EEG and EMG data. 2016 International Joint Conference on Neural Networks (IJCNN 2016), Piscataway: Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers (IEEE). [More Information]
- Wang, Z., Koprinska, I., Rana, M. (2016). Clustering Based Methods for Solar Power Forecasting. 2016 International Joint Conference on Neural Networks (IJCNN 2016), Piscataway: Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers (IEEE). [More Information]
- Luo, L., Li, B., Koprinska, I., Berkonsky, S., Chen, F. (2016). Discovering Temporal Purchase Patterns with Different Responses to Promotions. 25th ACM International Conference on Information and Knowledge Management (CIKM 2016), New York: Association for Computing Machinery (ACM). [More Information]
2015
- Rana, M., Koprinska, I., Agelidis, V. (2015). 2D-interval forecasts for solar power production. Solar Energy, 122, 191-203. [More Information]
- Gupta, J., Koprinska, I., Patrick, J. (2015). Automated Classification of Clinical Incident Types. 23rd Australian National Health Informatics Conference (HIC 2015), Amsterdam: IOS Press. [More Information]
- Koprinska, I., Rana, M., Agelidis, V. (2015). Correlation and instance based feature selection for electricity load forecasting. Knowledge-Based Systems, 82, 29-40. [More Information]
2014
- Rana, M., Koprinska, I., Troncoso, A. (2014). Forecasting hourly electricity load profile using neural networks. The Annual International Joint Conference on Neural Networks (IJCNN 2014), Piscataway, USA: Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers (IEEE). [More Information]
2013
- O'Keefe, T., Curran, J., Ashwell, P., Koprinska, I. (2013). An Annotated Corpus of Quoted Opinions in News Articles. 51st Annual Meeting of the Association for Computational Linguistics (ACL 2013), Stroudsburg, PA USA: Association for Computational Linguistics (ACL).
- Pareti, S., O'Keefe, T., Konstas, I., Curran, J., Koprinska, I. (2013). Automatically Detecting and Attributing Indirect Quotations. 2013 Conference on Empirical Methods in Natural Language Processing (EMNLP 2013), Seattle, USA: Association for Computational Linguistics (ACL).
- Xu, M., Berkovsky, S., Ardon, S., Triukose, S., Mahanti, A., Koprinska, I. (2013). Catch-up TV Recommendations: Show Old Favourites and Find New Ones. 7th ACM Conference on Recommender Systems (RecSys 2013), New York: Association for Computing Machinery (ACM). [More Information]
2012
- O'Keefe, T., Pareti, S., Curran, J., Koprinska, I., Honnibal, M. (2012). A Sequence Labelling Approach to Quote Attribution. Conference on Empirical Methods in Natural Language Processing and Computational Natural Language Learning (emnlp-conll 2012), Stroudsburg, PA: Association for Computational Linguistics (ACL).
- Rana, M., Koprinska, I. (2012). Electricity Load Forecasting Using Non-decimated Wavelet Prediction Methods With Two-Stage Feature Selection. 2012 Annual International Joint Conference on Neural Networks, IJCNN 2012, Piscataway: Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers (IEEE). [More Information]
- Koprinska, I., Rana, M., Agelidis, V. (2012). Electricity Load Forecasting: A Weekday-Based Approach. 22nd ICANN International Conference on Artificial Neural Networks, Berlin, Germany: Springer. [More Information]
2011
- Akehurst, J., Koprinska, I., Yacef, K., Pizzato, L., Kay, J., Rej, T. (2011). CCR - A Content-Collaborative Reciprocal Recommender for Online Dating. 22nd International Joint Conference on Artificial Intelligence, Menlo Park, California, USA: AAAI Press.
- Hawson, L., Koprinska, I., McLean, A., McGreevy, P. (2011). Deciphering the cues from riders' legs. 7th International Equitation Science Conference, the Netherlands: Wageningen Academic Publishers.
- Kay, J., Koprinska, I., Yacef, K. (2011). Educational Data Mining to Support Group Work in Software Development Projects. In Cristobal Romero, Sebastian Ventura, Mykola Pechenizkiy, Ryan S J d Baker (Eds.), Handbook of Educational Data Mining, (pp. 173-185). USA: CRC Press. [More Information]
2010
- Sood, R., Koprinska, I., Agelidis, V. (2010). Electricity Load Forecasting Based on Autocorrelation Analysis. 2010 IEEE Congress on Evolutionary Computation (IEEE-CEC) - WCCI 2010, USA: Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers (IEEE). [More Information]
- Koprinska, I. (2010). Feature Selection for Brain-Computer Interfaces. In Theeramunkong, Nattee, Adeodato, Chawla, Christen, Lenca, Poon, Williams (Eds.), New Frontiers in Applied Data Mining: PAKDD 2009 International Workshops - Lecture Notes in Artificial Intelligence - LNAI Volume 5669, (pp. 106-117). Berlin Heidelberg: Springer. [More Information]
- Pizzato, L., Chung, T., Rej, T., Koprinska, I., Yacef, K., Kay, J. (2010). Learning User Preferences in Online Dating. European conference on machine learning and principles and practice of knowledge discovery in databases (2012 ECML PKDD), Spain: ECML PKDD.
2009
- Perera, D., Kay, J., Koprinska, I., Yacef, K., Zaiane, O. (2009). Clustering and Sequential Pattern Mining of Online Collaborative Learning Data. IEEE Transactions On Knowledge And Data Engineering, 21(6), 759-772. [More Information]
- Koprinska, I. (2009). Comparison of Feature Selection Methods for Classification of Brain-Computer Interface Data. Workshop on Advances and Issues in Biomedical Data Mining AIBDM 2009 - In association with the 13th Pacific-Asia Conference on Knowledge Discovery and Data Mining (PAKDD'09), Thailand: Printing House of Thammasat University, Rangsit Campus.
- O'Keefe, T., Koprinska, I. (2009). Feature Selection and Weighting Methods in Sentiment Analysis. 14th Australasian Document Computing Symposium, Sydney, Australia: School of Information Technologies, University of Sydney.
2008
- Al-Zoubi, O., Koprinska, I., Calvo, R. (2008). Classification of Brain-Computer Interface Data. The Seventh Australasian Data Mining Conference (AusDM 2008), Sydney NSW, Australia: Australian Computer Society.
- Chan, J., Koprinska, I., Poon, J. (2008). Semi-supervised classification using bridging. International Journal on Artificial Intelligence Tools, 17(3), 415-431. [More Information]
2007
- Chan, J., Poon, J., Koprinska, I. (2007). Enhancing the Performance of Semi-Supervised Classification Algorithms with Bridging. The Twentieth International Florida Artificial Intelligence Research Society Conference, Menlo Park, California: AAAI Press.
- Perera, D., Kay, J., Yacef, K., Koprinska, I. (2007). Mining learners' traces from an online collaboration tool. Workshop on Educational Data Mining 2007, online: International Working Group on Educational Data Mining.
2006
- Cummins, D., Yacef, K., Koprinska, I. (2006). A Sequence Based Recommender System for Learning Resources. ADCS 2006 11th Australasian Document Computing Symposium, Queensland: Faculty of Information Technology, Queensland University of Technology.
- Feger, F., Koprinska, I. (2006). Co-training Using RBF Nets and Different Feature Splits. 2006 IEEE World Congress on Computational Intelligence - A Joint Conference of the Int Joint Conf on Neural Networks (IJCNN), Fuzzy Systems (FUZZ-IEEE), and Evolutionary Computation (CEC), USA: Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers (IEEE).
- Koprinska, I., Deng, D., Felix, F. (2006). Image Classification Using Labelled And Unlabelled Data. 14th European Signal Processing Conference (EUSIPCO 2006), Europe: EURASIP European Association for Signal, Speech and Image Processing.
2005
- Ler, D., Koprinska, I., Chawla, S. (2005). A Hill-climbing Landmarker Generation Algorithm Based on Efficiency and Correlativity Criteria. The Eighteenth International Florida Artificial Intelligence Research Society Conference - FLAIRS 2005, USA: AAAI Press.
- Ler, D., Koprinska, I., Chawla, S. (2005). Comparisons between Heuristics Based on Correlativity and Efficiency for Landmarker Generation. Fourth International Conference on Hybrid Intelligent Systems - HIS 2004, Los Alamitos, California, USA: Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers (IEEE).
- Saberi, M., Carrato, S., Koprinska, I., Clark, J. (2005). Estimation of the Hierachical Structures of a Video Sequence Using MPEG-7 Descriptors and GCS. 9th International Conference on Knowledge-Based Intelligent Information and Engineering Systems, Germany: Springer.
2004
- Ler, D., Koprinska, I., Chawla, S. (2004). A Landmarker Selection Algorithm Based On Correlation And Efficiency Criteria. 17th Australian Joint Conference on Artificial Intelligence, Berlin: Springer.
- Ler, D., Koprinska, I., Chawla, S. (2004). A New Landmarker Generation Algorithm Based On Correlativity. The 2004 International Conference on Machine Learning and Applications (ICMLA'04), USA: Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers (IEEE).
- Chan, J., Koprinska, I., Poon, J. (2004). Co-Training On Textual Documents With A Single Natural Feature Set. The Ninth Australasian Document Computing Symposium (ADCS 2004), Victoria, Australia: Department of Computer Science and Software Engineering, University of Melbourne.
2003
- Clark, J., Koprinska, I., Poon, J. (2003). A neural network based approach to automatee e-mail classification. 2003 IEEE/WIC Intenational Conference on Web Intelligence, United States: Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers (IEEE).
- Verhein, F., Kay, J., Koprinska, I., McCreath, E. (2003). Classifying public announcements for user communities. Eighth Australasian Document Computing Symposium, Canberra: CSIRO ICT Centre.
- Koprinska, I., Trieu, F., Poon, J., Clark, J. (2003). E-mail classification by decision forests. Eighth Australasian Document Computing Symposium, Canberra: CSIRO ICT Centre.
2002
- Crawford, E., Koprinska, I., Patrick, J. (2002). A Multi-Learner Approach to E-mail Classification. ADCS '02 The Seventh Australasian Document Computing Symposium, Sydney, Australia: School of Information Technologies, University of Sydney.
- Ceguerra, A., Koprinska, I. (2002). Automatic Fingerprint Verification Using Neural Networks. Artificial Neural Networks ICANN 2002 International Conference, Germany: Springer.
- Jackson, K., Koprinska, I. (2002). DNA Microarray Data Clustering Using Growing Self Organizing Networks. 9th International Conference on Neural Information Processing (ICONIP''02) 4th Asia Pacific Conference on Simulated Evolution and Learning (SEAL''02) 1st International Conference on Fuzzy Systems and Knowledge Discovery (FSKD''02), Singapore: School of Electrical and Electronic Engineering, Nanyang Technological University, Singapore.
Selected Grants
2020
- ExploreCSR (2020), Han S, Fekete A, Koprinska I, Kay J, Poon J, Yacef K, Google LLC/Research Support
2018
- Health Data Mining, Koprinska I, DVC Research/Thompson Fellowships