Researchers
The AI and human-machine collaboration is a world-first initiative that pools the diverse expertise of top researchers from across Australia and the world. Their combined knowledge of artificial intelligence, telecommunications, engineering, the internet of things, robotics, social sciences, and more makes them uniquely placed to deliver insights, advances, and outcomes from which society in general will benefit.
Coordinator
Jie Lu is an internationally renowned scientist who stands at the forefront of the information age. Her work in computational intelligence has contributed fundamentally to the way we think about fuzzy transfer learning, concept drift, data-driven support systems, and recommender systems.
She is a Distinguished Professor and the director of the Australian Artificial Intelligence Institute (AAII) at the University of Technology Sydney (UTS), the largest AI centre in Australia, with 35 researchers and 230 PhD students. She is also Associate Dean (Research Excellence) at the Faculty of Engineering and Information Technology at UTS, where she drives the faculty’s culture of research excellence and impact.
Through industry collaboration, Professor Lu has applied her expertise across numerous fields, including transportation, telecommunication, health care, and education. Her partners in these endeavours have included Optus, Sydney Trains, Domain Holdings, Australia Ltd, Workforce Health Assessors, and 23Strands.
Fellowships and publications (Professional accomplishments)
Professor Lu is an IEEE Fellow, an IFSA Fellow, and an Australian Laureate Fellow. She has published six research books and more than 450 papers in leading journals and conferences. She has won 10 ARC Discovery projects, one ARC Linkage project, an ARC Laureate fellow project, and led 15 industry projects. She has supervised 50 PhD candidates to completion.
Australian Researchers
Professor, Director of the Centre for IoT and Telecommunications, School of Electrical and Information Engineering, the University of Sydney
Fellow of the Australian Academy of Science, Fellow of Australian Academy of Technological Sciences and Engineering (ATSE), Australian Laureate Fellow, IEEE Fellow
Research Interests: Wireless communications, digital communication theory, error control coding and multi-user detection
Distinguished Professor, Associate Deputy Vice-Chancellor and the Chair of RMIT Professorial Academy, Vice-Chancellor's Professorial Fellow in the School of Engineering, RMIT University
IEEE Fellow, President of IEEE Industrial Electronics Society for 2018 and 2019, the 2018 Australasian Artificial Intelligence Distinguished Research Contribution Awardee, and the 2018 M.A. Sargent Medallist.
Research Interests: Control systems, cyber-physical systems, power systems, and AI
Professor, Professor of Software Engineering at Monash University
Australian Laureate Fellow, Fellow of Automated Software Engineering, Fellow of Engineers Australia, Certified Professional Engineer, Engineering Executive, Member of the ACM and Senior Member of the IEEE.
Research Interests: Model-driven engineering, human-centric software engineering, user interfaces
Professor, Institute of Electrical and Electronic Engineering, University of Melbourne
IEEE Fellow, co-founder of the European Centred IoT forum
Research Interests: Internet of Things, automation, and machine learning
Professor, Art & Design, the University of New South Wales
Visual Arts Fellow
Research Interests: Human robot Interaction, responsive systems, new media art
Distinguished Professor, AAII, UTS
IEEE Fellow, IFSA Fellow, and the 2017 IEEE Fuzzy Systems Pioneer Awardee, inventor of fuzzy neural networks (FNN) in 1992
Research Interests: Fuzzy logics, machine learning, brain-computer interfaces, and human-machine cooperation
Professor, School of Electrical and Electronic Engineering, the University of Adelaide
IEEE Fellow, Fellow of Engineers Australia, and top scientists ranking for EEE, 1st in Australia and 2nd in the world.
Research Interests: Systems, automation, and control
Scientia Professor, Director of Ageing Futures Institute, the University of New South Wales
Australian Laureate Fellow, conjoint Senior Principal Research Scientist at Neuroscience Research Australia, FAHMS, FASSA, FRNS, FAPS
Research Interests: cognitive and mental health resilience, and the consequences and prevention of cognitive ageing and dementia
Professor, Director of the Centre for Advanced Manufacturing, UTS
Dual appointment with TU Dortmund University, Germany as Professor and Head of the Institute of Production Systems (IPS), scientific advisor to world class manufacturing companies
Research Interests: Control engineering, mechatronics and robotics, data management and data science, manufacturing engineering
Redmon Barry Distinguished Professor, School of Computing and Information Systems, the University of Melbourne
IEEE Fellow, Lifetime Achiever and Superstar of Research in the Australian Research 2021 Review
Research Interests: Distributed computing systems, high performance computing, grid computing, and cloud computing
Distinguished Professor in robotics, School of Mechanical and Mechatronic Engineering, UTS
The 2016 Australian Engineering Excellence Awardee and Senior Member of the IEEE.
Research Interests: Intelligent robotics, human-robot collaboration, and field robotics
Professor, Director of Wireless Engineering Laboratory, School of Electrical and Information Engineering, the University of Sydney
ARC Future Fellow, IEEE Fellow
Research Interests: Wireless communications, Internet of Things, wireless networked control, and wireless AI
Professor, Director, Social Change Enabling Impact Platform and Professor of Information Sciences in the School of Global, Urban and Social Studies and the School of Computing Technologies, RMIT University
Fellow of the Academy of Social Sciences (FASSA)
Research Interests: human information behaviour, web usability & users’ experience of technology, community engagement & societal research impact
Professor, School of Engineering, RMIT University
ARC DECRA Fellow and RMIT Vice-Chancellor’s Research Fellow
Research Interests: Complex systems, energy analytics, and network computation
Professor, School of Computer Science, UTS
Well-recognised researcher in business intelligence, cloud computing, software engineering, and AI applications
Research Interests: Fog and cloud computing, industry 4.0, blockchain, and data analytics
Senior Lecturer, AAII, UTS
ARC DECRA Fellow
Research Interests: Technology intelligence, information retrieval, and information systems
Senior Lecturer, School of Computing and Information Systems, the University of Melbourne
ARC DECRA Fellow
Research Interests: Human-computer interactions, and robotics.
International Researchers
Prof Witold Pedrycz
Professor and Canada Research Chair, School of Electrical and Computer Engineering, University of Alberta, Canada
Research Interests: Computational intelligence
Prof Tzyy-Ping Jung
Research Scientist, Institute for Neural Computation, University of California, San Diego, USA
Research Interests: Biomedical signal processing, translational neuroscience, brain-computer interface
Prof Hiroko Dodge
Professor, Director of Research Analytics, Harvard Medical School and Massachusetts General Hospital, USA
Research Interests: aging; alzheimer's disease; cognitive behavioral therapy; dementia; epidemiology; intervention development
Prof Yoshio Matsumoto
Chief Senior Researcher, Human Augmentation Research Center, National Institute of Advanced Industrial Science and Technology, Japan
Research Interests: Human-robot interaction and robotics
Prof David Lo
Professor and Director, Information Systems and Technology Cluster, School of Computing and Information Systems, Singapore Management University, Singapore
Research Interests: Intersection of software engineering, cybersecurity and data science
Prof Luisa Damiano
Full professor of logic and philosophy of science at the IULM University, Italy
Research Interests: Philosophy of science and technology
Prof H. Vincent Poor
Michael Henry Strater University Professor, Electrical and Computer Engineering, Princeton University, USA
Research Interests: Wireless networks and energy systems.
Prof Ramesh Agarwal
William Palm Professor of Engineering, Mechanical Engineering & Materials Science, McKelvey School of Engineering, Washington University in St Louis, USA
Research Interests: Power electronics, power converters and control, applying computational fluid dynamics to solve problems in mechanical and aerospace engineering
Prof Paul Havinga
Professor, School of Computer Science, University of Twente, the Netherlands
Research Interests: Pervasive computing, sensor data analytics, wireless sensor networks, and distributed autonomous systems
Prof Yvonne Rogers
Professor, Chair of Interaction Design, Dept of Computer Science, University College London, UK
Research Interests: Ubiquitous computing, interaction design and human-computer interaction