Dr Helen Giggins

Biography

Helen received her PhD from the School of Electrical Engineering and Computer Science at the University of Newcastle, Australia in 2009. Her thesis titled ‘Security of Genetic Databases’ was nominated for the Computing Research and Education Association of Australasia (CORE) Australasian Distinguished Doctoral Dissertation in 2009. She has recently worked as a causal academic in the Discipline of Software Engineering and Computer Science at the Callaghan campus of the University of Newcastle. Prior to completing her PhD she was awarded an Honours degree in Computer Science at the same institution. Her research interests include privacy preserving data publishing, privacy preserving data mining, trust management, graph theory applications, trust management, and education.

Dr Giggins is currently working as Project Officer (Online Learning) in the School of Architecture and Built Environment.

Qualifications

• PhD, University of Newcastle, 2009
• Bachelor of Computer Science (Honours), University of Newcastle, 2002
• Bachelor of Computer Science, University of Newcastle, 2001

Research

Research keywords

• Data Mining
• Graph Theory Applications
• Privacy Preserving Data Publishing

Research expertise

The main area of research in Helen's career to this point has been in the areas of Privacy Preserving Data Publishing (also known as Statistical Disclosure Control) and Privacy Preserving Data Mining. She also has interests in education research, particularly in the area of Distance Education, as well as graph theory applications. Helen has recent collaborations woth Dr Zahidul Islam from Charles Sturt University, helping in the implementation of various Decision Tree Classifiation algorithms aimed at improving prediction accurary and pattern extraction.

Collaboration

Recent collaboration with Dr Zahidul Islam from Charles Sturt University on improved multiple decision tree generation algorithm and evaluation methods.

Working with A/Prof. Paul Manuel from Kuwait University on graph theoretical properties of the diamond crystal.

Languages

• English

Fields of Research

Teaching

Teaching keywords

• Data Security
• Internet Communications