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PhD · Environmental Data Science · University of Canterbury

Kia ora, my name is Tobi, and I am a postdoc at the University of Canterbury, researching extreme weather events in Antarctica. My work spans machine learning, environmental data science, anomaly detection, legal tech and natural language processing.

About

I am a postdoctoral researcher at the School of Earth and Environment at the University of Canterbury, Christchurch, New Zealand. My current research focuses on the detection and prediction of anomalous and extreme weather events in Antarctica. This work is closely related to my PhD dissertation in Applied and Computational Mathematics, combining data science and machine learning with environmental science to uncover unusual patterns in complex, real-world datasets.

I also worked as a Research and Teaching Assistant at the University of Passau, Germany, where I completed both my B.Sc. in Internet Computing and my M.Sc. in Computer Science. Furthermore, I spent a year at Kyoto Sangyo University in Japan and completed a 3-month research internship at the Institute of Industrial Science at the University of Tokyo.

Position
Postdoctoral Researcher
Institution
University of Canterbury, Antarctic Science Platform
PhD
Computational and Applied Mathematics
Research Interests
Environmental Data Science · Machine Learning · Anomaly Detection · Legal Tech · NLP

Selected Publications

2024
Foehn Wind Detection using Unsupervised Machine Learning
Milz, T., Katurji, M., & Vetrova, V.
2023
Law in Order: An Open Legal Citation Network for New Zealand
Milz, T., Macpherson, E., & Vetrova, V.
AusDM 2023 · pp. 211–225 · DOI: 10.1007/978-981-99-8696-5_15
2021
Analysis of a German Legal Citation Network
Milz, T., Granitzer, M., & Mitrovic, J.
KDIR 2021 · pp. 147–154 · DOI: 10.5220/0010650800003064
2018
Who Cites What in Computer Science? — Analysing Citation Patterns Across Conference Rank and Gender
Milz, T. & Seifert, C.
TPDL 2018 · pp. 321–325 · DOI: 10.1007/978-3-030-00066-0_32
2018
Most Important First — Keyphrase Scoring for Improved Ranking in Settings With Limited Keyphrases
Witt, N., Milz, T., & Seifert, C.
DS 2018 · pp. 373–385 · DOI: 10.1007/978-3-030-01771-2_24

Current Research

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Contact

I welcome inquiries from prospective students, collaborators, journalists, and colleagues. Please do not hesitate to reach out — I aim to respond within a few working days.

If you are interested in joining the lab as a graduate student or postdoctoral researcher, please include a brief description of your background and research interests.

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Emailtobi.milz[at]canterbury.ac.nz
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OfficeSchool of Earth and Environment, University of Canterbury
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