Rafael A. Calvo
Teaching - Research - Community - Publications - Projects
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Teaching
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Research
I am interested in Learning.
The technical side of our work consists in bringing machine learning algorithms to real systems, and see how they can be used to change the way we work and of course learn. I am particularly interested in using these techniques in e-learning systems but we have built a several of these "Intelligent Information systems", with a number of partners, and in a number of topics:
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With the Faculty of Education, and funding form the Australian Research Council (Discovery Projects) we are developing textual data mining tools data will provide feedback to students in writing essays, and to their teachers who have to assess them.
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With New South Wales Institue of Sports and dotLRN consortium with whom we are developing eLearning systems. We are developing what we call Intelligent Learning Management Systems as an extension to the dotLRN LMS.
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With the Australian Biosecurity CRC we are developing mobile applications for the early detection of infectious disease in Australian cattle farms.
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With the Capital Markets Collaborative Research Centre we developed systems to manage textual information used by financial analysts and advisors.
The less technical side involves studying how the conceptions that students have, the approaches they take, and their learning outcomes they all correlate. We have focused on two aspects of this line of research: e-learning and Engineering education.
In a new line of research, we are working on Brain Computer Interfaces (how braing signals can be recognized and used to control computer devices). We have developed technology for dry electrodes, and we are looking at machine learning algorithms for classification and clustering.
I am looking for students that want to do a thesis on one of this projects
You can have a look at some of my publications and grants.
Community
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Program Committee Member - ICWE 2005, acilite 2006, International World Wide Web Conference 2007 (WWW2007)
I am involved in a number of non-profit organizations. I am in the Board of the dotLRN Consortium, and was one of the founders of Elnet, the first professional assocciation for eLearning in Australia.
I also provide consulting services to local and overseas companies. My consulting is strongly related to my research interests, so I develop advanded web applications for corporate and university clients.
I am a reviewer for: IEEE Internet Computing, ACM Transactions on Information Systems, Australia Research Council , Neural Processing Letters
And some local conferences such as Ausweb and ascilite
