Alex Penev 

I received a BE (Soft. Eng., Hons I) from CSE UNSW in 2005. I then joined NICTA's NRL research lab to do my PhD. I was part of the Database Group and my supervisor was A/Prof Raymond Wong.

My research interests are mostly IR (search, web2.0, tagging, metadata, online advertising), as well as a bit of data mining and generally anything that's cool and Web-related.

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publications

Coming soon(ish):
  • A Penev. "Search in Personal Spaces" (PhD thesis). Under review.
  • A Penev, R Wong. "Advertisement selection for a portable computing device" (patent app., tba 03/2010).
  • A Penev, R Wong. "Using metadata for social tag search" (journal paper). Submitted.
  • A Penev, R Wong. "Structure vs Content in Hierarchical Corpora" (journal paper). Submitted.
  • A Penev, R Wong. "Hyperlink clustering on constrained devices" (journal paper). WIP.
2009:
  • A Penev, R Wong. "Framework for Timely and Accurate Ads on Mobile Devices" (paper & talk). In CIKM.
  • M Gebski, A Penev, R Wong. "Protocol Identification of Encrypted Network Streams" (book chapter). In Complex Data Warehousing and Knowledge Discovery for Advanced Retrieval Development, IGI GLobal, T M Nguyen (Ed.), Ch. 15, pp328-341, isbn 160566748X.
2008:
  • A Penev, R Wong. "TagScore: Approximate Similarity Using Tag Synopses" (paper & talk). In WI, pp98-104.
  • M Gebski, A Penev, R Wong. "Grouping Categorical Anomalies" (short paper). In WI, pp411-414.
  • A Penev, R Wong. "Finding similar pages in a social tagging repository" (poster). In WWW, pp1091-1092.
  • A Penev, R Wong. "Grouping hyperlinks for improved voice/mobile accessibility" (paper & talk). In W4A, pp50-53.
2006:
  • M Gebski, A Penev, R Wong. "Protocol Identification of Encrypted Network Traffic" (short paper). In WI, pp957-960.
  • A Penev, M Gebski, R Wong. "Topic Distillation in Desktop Search" (paper & talk). In DEXA, pp478-488.
  • M Gebski, A Penev, R Wong. "Classification of Hidden Network Streams" (paper & talk). In DaWaK, pp332-341.
  • A Penev, R Wong. "Shallow NLP techniques for internet search" (paper & talk). In ACSC, pp167-176.

teaching

I've tutored, graded assignments and marked exams for...
  • COMP3421 Computer Graphics. A mix of opengl, java and maths. This course is one of the most-liked by undergrads.
  • COMP2041 Software Construction. The Practice of Programming-inspired swiss army knife course covering perl, shell, c, make and debugging. This was my favourite course when I was undergrad, so I taught it for a couple of years as a postgrad.

misc

I call Australia home. I've lived in Sydney since 1992, but I like traveling. Hobbies include web dev/admin, photos, trading, gaming, soccer and piano

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