International Women’s Day 8 March 2021 “Women in Leadership: Achieving an equal future in a COVID-19 world” ACOLA celebrates International Women’s Day as a global day of recognising the social, economic, cultural, and political achievements of all women. The day also marks a call to action for accelerating women’s equality. In recognition of this year’s…
Professor Holger Regenbrecht Professor Holger Regenbrecht is a computer scientist and Professor at the Department of Information Science at the University of Otago, New Zealand His work spans theory, concepts, techniques, technologies, and applications. Holger’s research interests include human-computer interaction, applied computer science and information technology, presence and telepresence, ubiquitous, immersive, and collaborative augmented reality,…
Professor Glenn WightwickFTSE Professor Glenn Wightwick is the Deputy Vice-Chancellor of Innovation and Enterprise at the University of Technology Sydney (UTS) where he has responsibility for the university’s innovation, entrepreneurship and industry engagement. Prior to this, he was Deputy Vice-Chancellor of Research for 3.5 years. He spent 27 years working at IBM in Australia, the…
Professor Deborah LuptonFASSA Professor Deborah Lupton is SHARP Professor in the Faculty of Arts & Social Sciences, UNSW Sydney, working in the Centre for Social Research in Health and the Social Policy Research Centre and leading the Vitalities Lab. She is the author/co-author of 17 books, the latest of which are Digital Sociology (Routledge, 2015),…
Professor Branka VuceticFAA, FTSE Professor Branka Vucetic is an ARC Laureate and Director of the Centre for IoT and Telecommunications at the University of Sydney. Her current research work is in wireless networks and the Internet of Things. In the area of wireless networks, she works on communication system design for millimetre wave frequency bands.…
Professor Paul ScuffhamFAHMS Professor Paul Scuffham is a Professor of Health Economics at Griffith University, Gold Coast, Australia, and a NHMRC Senior Research Fellow. Paul Scuffham graduated with a PhD in economics from Otago in 1999, spent 4+ years at the University of York (UK) and returned to Australia in 2004 to further the development…
Julian ThomasFAHA Julian Thomas is Director of the ARC Centre of Excellence for Automated Decision-Making and Society, and a Professor in the School of Media and Communications at RMIT University. He leads the team producing the Australian Digital Inclusion Index (Telstra, 2016-) and publishes widely on the social aspects of new communications technologies. Thomas’s books include Internet on the Outstation: The…
Jathan Sadowski Jathan Sadowski is a research fellow in the Emerging Technologies Research Lab in the Faculty of Information Technology at Monash University. His work focuses on the political economy of technology by asking critical questions that seek to analyse the interests, imperatives, and ideologies that influence the design and use of technical systems. He has done…
Professor Dacheng TaoFAA Professor Dacheng Tao is an Australian Laureate Fellow, Professor of Computer Science and the Inaugural Director of the UBTECH Sydney Artificial Intelligence Centre at The University of Sydney. His research results in AI have expounded in one monograph and 300+ publications at leading journals and conferences, such as T-PAMI, T-IP, T-NNLS, AIJ,…
Professor A. Ian Smith Ian Smith is Vice-Provost (Research & Research Infrastructure) at Monash University, playing a university-wide leadership role, responsibility for research strategy, infrastructure and alliances. A major focus being building linkages to industry and encouraging large companies and SMEs to use the university’s globally-recognised research capabilities and tools to innovate, capture new opportunities…