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Email

ammoffat@unimelb.edu.au

Credentials


Position
Professor
School of Computing and Information Systems
Education
Doctorate (Research)
University of Canterbury
Bachelors Degree (Honours)
University of Canterbury
ORCID

0000-0002-6638-0232

Prof Alistair Moffat

Professor
School of Computing and Information Systems

353 Scholarly works
13 Projects

HIGHLIGHTS

  • 2020

    Research Contracts

    Improved Compression for Text Indexes
  • 2020

    Conference Proceedings

    Metrics, user models, and satisfaction
    DOI: 10.1145/3336191.3371799
  • 2020

    Research grants (ARC, NHMRC, MRFF)

    Efficient Compression and Querying Techniques for Massive Text Collections
  • 2019

    Journal article

    Huffman Coding
    DOI: 10.1145/3342555
  • 2019

    Conference Proceedings

    Accelerated query processing via similarity score prediction
    DOI: 10.1145/3331184.3331207
  • 2019

    Conference Proceedings

    Fast dictionary-based compression for inverted indexes
    DOI: 10.1145/3289600.3290962
  • 2016

    Research Grant

    User-Adaptive Search and Evaluation for Complex Information-Seeking Tasks
Alistair Moffat

Latest Honours,
Awards and Fellowships


2010
Teaching Excellence Award Melbourne School of Engineering, University of Melbourne
2006
National Carrick Citation for Outstanding Contribution to Teaching Excellence and Learning in Higher Education Carrick Institute for Learning and Teaching in Higher Education

RECENT SCHOLARLY WORKS

  • 2026

    Conference Proceedings

    (Everything You Never Knew You Needed To Know About) Rank-Biased Measurement For Web Search
    DOI: 10.1145/3774904.3795891
  • 2026

    Book Chapter

    FaE: A Resource of Logs, Profiles, and Rankings for Academic Expert Finding
    DOI: 10.1007/978-3-032-21321-1_49
  • 2025

    Conference Proceedings

    Empirical Asymptotic Growth of Dynamic Pruning Mechanisms
    DOI: 10.1145/3767695.3769477
  • 2025

    Journal article

    Generalization estimation in process mining: the impact of event data quality
    DOI: 10.1007/s44311-025-00027-3
  • 2025

    Conference Proceedings

    The Effects of Demographic Instructions on LLM Personas
    DOI: 10.1145/3726302.3730255
  • 2025

    Journal article

    Report from the 4th Strategic Workshop on Information Retrieval in Lorne (SWIRL 2025)
    DOI: 10.1145/3769733.3769739
  • 2025

    Conference Proceedings

    Formalized Burrows-Wheeler Transform
    DOI: 10.1145/3703595.3705883
  • 2025

    Journal article

    Formally Verified Suffix Array Construction
    DOI: 10.1007/s10817-025-09735-8

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