Director of Research & Development
Real Time Genomics
New Zealand
Over the years Len has helped advance the field of machine learning, building up an impressive set of skills in numerous areas of computer science. Having completed a Ph.D. in machine learning at the University of Waikato in 1998, he accepted a postdoctoral fellowship with the machine learning group at the University. During his time there he published many articles on machine learning and was a primary architect of the well known WEKA machine learning workbench. Since leaving academia in 1999, Len has worked on projects involving document classification, data compression, named entity extraction, search, bioinformatics, and is currently chief software architect and team leader for the development of RTG's core technology.
Bioinformatics