David Taniar holds Bachelors (Honours), Masters, and PhD degrees - all in Computer Science/Information Technology, with a particular speciality in Databases. His research now expands to Data Mining, Mobile Information Systems, and Web Technology. He publishes extensively every year.
He is currently a Senior Lecturer at the Faculty of Information Technology, Monash University, Australia. He first joined Monash University in 1997 as a lecturer in the Gippsland School of Computing and Information Technology. After a short stay at the Department of Computer Science, RMIT University in 1999-2000, he joined the School of Business Systems at Clayton in the beginning of 2001 as a Senior Lecturer. He had also previously taught computing at Swinburne in 1991-1996.
Dr. Taniar has also held a number of technical positions in industry, where he was involved in building applications for banks (such as ANZ and NAB), and major industrial companies (such as Telecom, SECV, DEET Canberra, Caltex NZ, Gas and Fuel Brisbane).
He is a founding editor-in-chief of a number of international journals, including Intl J of Data Warehousing and Mining, Intl J of Business Intelligence and Data Mining, Mobile Information Systems, Journal of Mobile Multimedia, Intl J of Web Information Systems, and Intl J of Web and Grid Services. He is also an editorial board member of numerous international journals.
He is elected as a Fellow of the Royal Society of Arts, Manufactures and Commerce (FRSA), and Fellow of the Institute for Management Information Systems (FIMIS). He is also listed in the Who's Who in the World and Who's Who in Science and Engineering.
Besides writing research papers, he enjoys classical music. He received his piano training from the Conservatorium of Music - Jakarta Institute of the Arts (IKJ). He was also a member of Jakarta Erasmus Huis Symphony Orchestra, Whitehorse Symphony Orchestra, and the New Monash Orchestra where he played viola. He is now a member of the Zelman Memorial Symphony Orchestra. The next concert schedule can be found here.
