Assoc. Prof. Andrew Turpin BCom BSci(Hons) PhD ARC Future Fellow Department of Computing and Information Systems Melbourne School of Information University of Melbourne Australia.
		My Optic Nerve Head (2007)		Me trying to be serious (2007)		Me Finishing the Canberra Marathon (2008)

Contact Details

• Phone: +61 3 8344 1312 (Work)
• Fax: +61 3 9349 4596 (Work)
• Email: aturpin AT unimelb DOT edu DottyDotDot au
• Skype: My last name and then firstname juxtaposed (no spaces)
• Office: 4.13, ICT Building, 111 Barry St., Carlton, Australia.
• Post: Department of Computer Science and Software Engineering The University of Melbourne , Victoria 3010, Australia

Student project areas

• Models of retinal axon pathways
• Algorithms for testing human visual fields
  • WANTED - spatial statistics experience.
• Risk calculator for the eye disease glaucoma
• Analysing eye tracking data in normal and diseased eyes while watching movies

Here is a brief bio and my publications

And if you are a bean counter: my Google Scholar Profile.

Research interests

• Computational problems in human vision
  • Barramundi visual field simulator
  • Simulation results of the ZEST and MOBS procedures for Frequency Doubling Technology Perimetry
  • Simulation of SITA (under cons) and EMU (under cons)
  • Algorithms for testing visual acuity (eye charts)
  • Computer processing of retinal images
  • Classification of glaucoma patients
• Data compression and string searching
  • Fast suffix array construction
  • Number of runs in a string (stringology)
  • Storage of documents in a web search engine
  • A book coauthoured by me.
  • Here is my minimum-redundancy (Huffman) coder.
• Performance of IR systems with real users
  • How do people use snippets in Web search result lists?
  • What does it mean to judge a document relevant to a query?
• History of Neenish Tarts

Example graphs in R.

MEL Weather PubMed Unimelb library

Australian Document Computing Symposium 2007. Australian Document Computing Symposium 2008. ADCS2008. ADCS2010. Australian Document Computing Symposium 2010 SPIRE 2008 20th International Visual Field and Imaging Symposium, 2012. IPS 2012. IPS Melbourne 2012.