Principal Researcher
Victoria Research Laboratory

Justin Zobel is Professor of Computational Bioinformatics at the University of Melbourne, in the Department of Computer Science and Software Engineering, and is the Bioinformatics Theme Leader at the Victorian Life Sciences Computation Initiative's Life Sciences Computing Centre. At NICTA, he is a Principal Researcher at the Victoria Research Laboratory, where he leads research in computing for life sciences. He is active in the Biotala project on text and language processing for biomedical applications, and in the Computational Genomics project, on initiatives such as high-performance sequence processing.

Prior to joining NICTA, Professor Zobel led the Search Engine group and managed the Data Engineering discipline in the School of Computer Science and Information Technology at RMIT His research interests include search engines, bioinformatics, fundamental algorithms, and research methods. He is the author of the text `Writing for Computer Science', now in its second edition.

He holds BSc(Hons) (1985) and PhD (1991) in Computer Science from the University of Melbourne. He is an editor-in-chief of the Information Retrieval journal.

Contact details:
Email: jzobel@unimelb.edu.au
Phone: (+61 3) 8344 1282
WWW: http://www.csse.unimelb.edu.au/~jz