Flinders University
Dr Simon Williams
Dr
Simon
Williams
Flinders University
http://www.flinders.edu.au/people/s.williams
| Position/s: | Research Associate School of Computer Science, Engineering and Mathematics |
| Phone: | +61 8 82012037 |
| Email: | s.williams@flinders.edu.au |
| Location: | Information, Science & Technology (224) |
| Postal address: | GPO Box 2100, Adelaide 5001, South Australia |
Biography
I was born in Germany while my father was on sabbatical there, but grew up in Melbourne and then Adelaide, where I did my undergraduate studies in Mathematical Physics and Pure Mathematics. I went to Oxford to do graduate study with Roger Penrose on general relativity and conformal field theory (although both of these reduce to differential equations if you stare at them hard enough!) Since my return to Australia I've lectured at Adelaide University, worked as a radar signal processor at DSTO, and bayesian analyst at CSIRO before joining CSEM to work on iterative optimization of parametric bayesian models for medical image analysis.
Qualifications
B.Sc (Adel) D. Phil. (Oxon)
Honours, awards and grants
Kobe Steel Scholarship to St Catherines College, Oxford
Teaching
Teaching interests
Electronic Assesment for 1st year MATH topics
CSEM Student Study Support
Teaching Creativity
Indigenisation of the Science and Engineering curriculum.
Research and consultancy
Research interests
- Bayesian statistical models of things you didn't think there were Bayesian statistical models of
- images
- computer interfaces
- people using computer interfaces
- Image and signal processing
- radars
- medical images
- Mathematical Physics
- informational quantum mechanics
- quantum field theories
Publications
Refereed journal articles
McMichael, D., Jarrad, G., Williams, S., & Kennett, M., 2009. Force deployment analysis with generalized grammar. Information Fusion, 10(1), 51-69.
Steel, D., taffe, l., & Williams, S., 1989. Short-period comet production in close encounters with Jupiter. Proceedings of the Astronomical Society of Australia, 8.
Refereed conference papers
Bajger, M., Ma, F., Williams, S., & Bottema, M.J., 2010. Mammographic mass detection with statistical region merging. Proceedings: DICTA 2010, 27-32.
Ma, F., Bajger, M., Williams, S., & Bottema, M.J., 2010. Improved detection of cancer in screening mammograms by temporal comparison. Lecture Notes in Computer Science: Digital Mammography IWDM 2010, 6136, 752-759.
Williams, S. & McMichael, D., 2008. Operator Situation Awareness Monitoring in the Cognisant Control Room. Proceedings of the 11th International Conference on Information Fusion, 462-469.
McMichael, D., Jarrad, G., Williams, S., & Kennett, M., 2004. Modelling, simulation and estimation of situation histories. Proceedings of the Seventh International Conference on Information Fusion.
Conference publications
Bottema, M.J., Bajger, M., ma, F., & Williams, S., 2011. Mathematics in medical image analysis: a focus on mammography. Proceedings of the 6th SEAMS-GMU International Conference on Mathematics and Applications.
McMichael, D., Raymond, F., Williams, S., & Jarrad, G., 2008. Sem@ntica: A system for semantic extraction and logical querying of text corpora. Proceedings of the 2008 IEEE International Conference on Intelligence and Security Informatics, 277-278.
Professional and community engagement
Judging the Maths and Engineering Challenge in Tournament of the Minds since 2010.
Secretary of the Australian Pattern Recognition Society
Subject/s
- Mathematics
- Signal processing
