External Advisory Committee for Post Graduate ICT Courses
 | Professor Juan Antonio Rodríguez-Aguilar Research professor at the Artificial Intelligence Research Institute (IIIA) of the Spanish Research Council (CSIC) Dr. Juan A. Rodríguez-Aguilar is a Research Professor (Full Professor) at the Artificial Intelligence Research Institute (IIIA) of the Spanish National Research Council (CSIC), where he leads research on “AI for Social Good”. He works on the foundations of team formation, collective decision making and multi-agent reinforcement learning, and explores their applicability to shared mobility, education, e-democracy, and ethics. |
He received an MSc in Artificial Intelligence (1998) and a PhD in Computer Science (2001) from the Autonomous University of Barcelona. In 1999, he joined as a researcher the Sloan School of Management at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT) to research on electronic markets. Between 2001 and 2003 he worked as a researcher for iSOCO S.A., leading the development of commercial products based on Artificial Intelligence techniques. In 2003 he became a Ramón y Cajal fellow to join IIIA-CSIC, and in 2005 he became tenured scientist.
He has published two hundred and fifty papers in specialized scientific journals, conferences and workshops. According to Google Scholar, his H-index is 39 and his publications total more than 6800 citations. He has been a Fellow of the European Association for Artificial Intelligence since 2013. He received the prize for the most cited article of the Engineering Application of Artificial Intelligence Journal during the period 2005-2010, and the prize for the Best Agent Application of the 2003 Agentcities International Agent Technology Competition.
He has acted as PI and participated in multiple research projects funded by the European Commission and the Spanish Government. He is an associate editor of the Artificial Intelligence Journal, the Journal of Artificial Intelligence Research, the Knowledge Engineering Review journal and Autonomous Agents and Multiagent Systems. He has served in the organisation of top AI international conferences (e.g. IJCAI, ECAI, AAMAS, AAAI) with multiple roles (Area Chair, Workshops chair, SPC). He regularly serves as an expert for several international research funding agencies (e.g. Royal Society, EPSRC, Portuguese FCT, Spanish MINECO), including the EC (Eurostars, H2020, EIC Pathfinder).
 | Susan Bennett (InfoGov ANZ, Industry, Information Governance Susan Bennett is the Founder and Executive Director of Information Governance ANZ and Principal of Sibenco Legal & Advisory. InfoGovANZ is a community of professionals across the data and information sphere – Information Governance, Legal, Data Privacy, Cybersecurity, Information Security, Records Management, eDiscovery, Data, Infonomics, AI and Ethics - with a multi-disciplinary focus to collaborate and share best practices and promote global information governance innovation. Susan’s focus is driving best practice holistic governance solutions aligning data, information, privacy and records with technology and regulatory compliance to achieve organisational goals. Recognised for her global thought leadership in information governance, Susan has deep commercial expertise and global networks on which she draws to work with cross-functional and multi-disciplinary teams. Susan is a Fellow of the Governance Institute of Australia (FGIA) and holds a Master of Laws and a Master of Business Administration, and is a Certified Information Privacy Professional – Europe (CIPP/E). |
 | Dr. David Chatterton (AWS Academy Technical Program Manager, Australia & New Zealand, Dr. David Chatterton is an experienced software engineer and former CTO with over 25 years commercial experience. David has built, developed and led software engineering teams working on performance monitoring tools, trusted operating systems and clustered file systems, primarily at Silicon Graphics. From 2008 until 2017 David was the CTO and then CIO at Aconex, an Australian SaaS for the construction industry that had a successful IPO in 2016 and was purchased by Oracle in 2018. After another CTO role at MedAdvisor in the pharmacy industry, David joined Amazon Web Services in 2019 and ran the AWS Academy program supporting universities and TAFEs. While in this role, David developed the cloud computing units that are now incorporated into the national TAFE ICT curriculum. David is currently a Senior Technical Trainer at Amazon Web Services, enjoying the opportunity to share his experience and assist others learning about cloud computing. |
| Professor Helen Chen Professor Chen has research interests in health data quality and analytics, health information system integration and interoperability, healthcare decision support, mobile health technology and home monitoring service, machine Learning and AI in Public Health; real World Evidence. Her teaching interests include health informatics, AI for Public Health, information system design and management, Health data standards, health data security and patient consent. https://uwaterloo.ca/public-health-and-health-systems/people-profiles/helen-chen |
 | Rob Garth, Site Reliability Engineering Manager at Ping Identity, WSU Alumni BSc, Engineering Manager at Aiven. Rob earned his degree from WSU in 1999 and has 2 decades of experience building scaleable infrastructure for small and large enterprises. In the last 10 years Rob has focused his attention on helping start-ups find scale, both technically and in talent, helping grow teams globally and helping companies grow into new regions. He has worked as an Engineer for Google, Nestlabs, The Linux Foundation, Square and built the Australian engineering team at Ping Identity. He is now helping Aiven as it grows rapidly on its own journey. Rob also contributed to the Linux Foundation Certified System Engineer course |
 | Professor Takayuki Itoh - Dept. of Information Sciences, Ochanomizu University. Visualisation, VA Takayuki Itoh is a full professor of Ochanomizu University, Japan. He received his Ph.D. degree from Waseda University in 1997. He was a researcher of IBM Research, Tokyo Research Laboratory from 1992 to 2005. He moved to Ochanomizu University as an associate professor in 2005 and then has been a full professor since 2011. He is mainly working on information visualization, especially graph, hierarchical, and multidimensional data visualization, but also he has many publications in other fields including scientific visualization, computer graphics, and music computing. |
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