He obtained his B.Eng from the University of Queensland in 1992 and his Ph.D. from the Australian National University in 1996. He has been a research fellow at the Australian Defence Force Academy, a fellow of the Singapore-MIT Alliance, and a visiting scientist at MIT. His research interests include machine learning and planning under uncertainty. His teams won first place in the POMDP track of the ICAPS International Probabilistic Planning Competition 2011 and in 2014. He has been an area chair for the Neural Information Processing Systems conference and a program chair as well as conference chair for the Asian Conference on Machine Learning.