Dr Oliver Obst is Associate Professor in Data Science at Western Sydney University, in Parramatta, Sydney, Australia, and the Director of Research, Quality, and Innovation for the School of Computing, Engineering, and Mathematics. Previously, he was team leader of the Data Mining Team at CSIRO (Data61), where he worked from Aug 2007 to Jan 2016, a lecturer at the University of Newcastle (2006/07), and a Post-doc at the University of Bremen, Germany (2006). He received a PhD in Artificial Intelligence (2006), and a Masters Degree in Computer Science from the University of Koblenz-Landau, in Koblenz, Germany. . .