Ann E. Nicholson (born June 1965) is an Australian academic specialising in

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. She is the Dean in the Faculty of Information Technology at

Monash University Monash University () is a public university, public research university based in Melbourne, Victoria (state), Victoria, Australia. Named after World War I general Sir John Monash, it was founded in 1958 and is the second oldest university in the ...

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

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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 Australian Academy of Technological Sciences and Engineering.

References

External links

List of her research publications

Short Interview with Nicholson
via Women in STEMM Australia
Interview on "Data Modelling with Bayesian networks"
via

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Blog post "How to model with Bayesian networks"
University of Melbourne alumni Alumni of the University of Oxford Australian Rhodes Scholars Academic staff of Monash University Artificial intelligence researchers Australian women computer scientists Living people 1965 births Fellows of the Australian Academy of Technological Sciences and Engineering Scientists from Melbourne Australian expatriates in the United States {{Compu-scientist-stub