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Dr. Chris Drummond is a Research Officer at the Institute for Information Technology of the National Research Council of Canada. He holds a B.Tech. in Applied Physics and an M.A.Sc. in Electrical Engineering. In 1999 he completed his Ph.D. in Computer Science at the University of Ottawa. There he spent a further three years as postdoctoral researcher in its School of Information Technology and Engineering until taking up his current position at the National Research Council. His research interests center on machine learning and cover such areas as data mining, learning agents, hybrid systems and cost sensitive learning. Chris has published 9 refereed scientific papers on these topics. He also has extensive industrial experience obtained prior to pursuing his graduate studies.