ProfessorJohn Yearwood

Professor John Yearwood is Professor of Information Technology and was previously Head of the School of Information Technology at
Deakin University and was previously Executive Dean, Faculty of Science and
Technology, and Director, Centre of Informatics and Applied Optimization at
Federation University, Australia. He was instrumental in setting up the
Internet Commerce Security Laboratory with Westpac, IBM and the Victorian
State Government as a joint industry-focused and data-driven laboratory on
cyber security in the financial sector. He has held a number of ARC grants and
was a QEII Fellow working on computational narrative and argumentation in
decision science.
Professor Yearwood's work in data mining and computational intelligence has
led to the development of new machine learning and hybrid learning algorithms
for artificial neural networks, as well as new data and text mining and
pattern recognition approaches. His work in decision science has developed the
use of argumentation structures for the modelling of knowledge and
collaborative decision making in complex domains. He has published over 260
journal and refereed conference papers including 2 books.
Professor Yearwood is currently a CI on two ARC funded Discovery Projects.
He was Editor-in-Chief of the Journal of Research & Practice in Information
Technology and a reviewer for a large number of journals and competitive
research grant programs including the Australian Research Council grant
program, the NHMRC grant program, and for the Dutch Government in the
assessment of their NWO/ToKeN2000.