BIOGRAPHY

Dr. Rahayu has been actively working in the areas of database design and implementation covering object-relational databases, web and e-commerce databases, semi-structured databases and XML, semantic web and ontology, data warehousing, and parallel databases. She has worked with industry and expertise from other disciplines in a number of projects including bioinformatics databases, parallel data mining, and e-commerce catalogues. Her PhD thesis has been awarded the Best PhD Thesis in Australia by the Computer Science Association of Australia in 2001.

In 2003, Dr. Rahayu received the Dean's award for excellence in Teaching . She has been invited to give seminars in the area of e-commerce databases in a number of international institutions. She supervises a number of PhD students in these areas. She publishes extensively every year, including three books (one authored and two edited). She is currently holding a number of large grants, including grants from the ARC Linkage for an ontology-based multi-site development system and VPAC Expertise for the implementation of parallel ontology derivation algorithms. She has also published over 70 papers in international journals and conferences.