Professor Ann E. Nicholson (born June 1965), is Dean in the Faculty of

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of Australia's largest university,

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in Melbourne. She is a researcher in the specialised area of

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s. Nicholson completed her BSc and MSc in

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at the

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. In 1988, she was awarded a

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. Here she did her doctorate in the

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Research Group. After starting work in the United States in 1992 as a post-doctoral research fellow at Brown University in

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, she took up a lecturing position at

in 1994. Nicholson has published more than 120 papers, with more than 7,000 citations, including co-authoring leading books in her specialised research area – Bayesian Artificial Intelligence. Nicholson established the consulting company Bayesian Intelligence in 2007 and is currently serving as Honorary Secretary to the Victorian Rhodes Scholarship Selection Committee. In 2022 she was elected a Fellow of the

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External links

List of her research publications

Short Interview with Nicholson
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Interview on "Data Modelling with Bayesian networks"
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Blog post "How to model with Bayesian networks"
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