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Dr Cara MacNish   BE(Hons) W.Aust, PhD Cantab  Senior Lecturer

Cara obtained her BE(Hons) in Electronic Engineering at UWA in 1987. This was followed by a short period working as a research and development engineer for ACET Ltd, before taking up the Prince of Wales Studentship at Trinity College, Cambridge, in 1988. In 1992 she obtained her Ph.D. in Logic-based Inference Systems from the University of Cambridge, and in March 1992 took up a Lectureship in Computer Science at the University of York. She returned to Australia in 1995 to join the Department of Computer Science & Software Engineering at UWA. Cara's research interests include logic and artificial intelligence, automated planning, machine learning, iterative optimisation, software specification and Computer Science education.

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	Dr Cara MacNish School of Computer Science & Software Engineering The University of Western Australia M002, 35 Stirling Highway Crawley, Western Australia, 6009
	+61 8 6488 3453
	+61 8 6488 1089
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	Homepage: http://people.csse.uwa.edu.au/cara