Director - Jon Whittle
Professor Whittle is a world-renowned expert in software engineering and human-computer interaction, with a particular interest in IT for social good, AI research in health sciences, and sustainable development.
With over 1000 staff and affiliates, partnerships with industries across almost every sector, and collaborations with over 30 Universities, CSIRO's Data61 is both a centre for expertise and an enabler for national initiatives.
Science and Deputy Director - Simon Barry
Dr Barry is passionate about using data and technology across all disciplines and sectors to better understand and solve some of Australia's greatest challenges. He has an extensive career history at CSIRO, contributing his deep knowledge and expertise of computational science, modelling and risk assessment, spatiotemporal data analytics, decision sciences and more to drive innovation at Australia's national science agency for over 15 years.
He was recently awarded a Chief Executive Team CSIRO Award for his outstanding work in the creation and development of CSIRO's Artificial Intelligence and Machine Learning Future Science Platform, bringing people together from multiple teams across the organisation, as well as numerous external partners, to drive a vision that is truly cross-cutting, domain-spanning, and transformational in these spaces.
Executive Manager Business Operations - Leisa McGuinness
Joining CSIRO's Data61 in early 2021 after a prestigious 21-year career at Monash University, Executive Business Manager Operations Leisa McGuinness is driving business innovation at Australia's national science agency.
Acting Research Program Director, Analytics & Decision Sciences - Brent Henderson
Dr Henderson is currently Acting Research Director for the Analytics and Decision Sciences (A&DS) Program within CSIRO Data61. With over 160 staff, the program has the cutting-edge capability, scale and collaborative experience to deliver trusted and transformative analytics for industry, government and society.
A&DS brings together the core research capabilities needed to make rational inferences and predictions from observations and/or models to better understand the world, and it develops methods which enable human decision-makers to use these to make efficient, informed and risk-based decisions.
Dr Henderson has a background in statistical science and has been working at the interface of statistical science, risk analysis and environmental and agricultural challenges within Australia for almost 20 years. He has a broad interest in delivering integrated science and specifiic technical interests spatio-temporal modelling, monitoring and survey design, reconciling data with modelled observations, multivariate analysis, risk analysis and cumulative impact analysis.
Acting Research Program Director, Cyber Physical Systems - Mark Hedley
Dr Hedley is the acting leader of the Cyber-Physical Systems Program at CSIRO's Data61 and has played a lead role in projects involving video coding, acoustic imaging, wireless communications and tracking at CSIRO. He received a BSc degree, majoring in Computer Science and Pure Mathematics, and a B.E. (Electrical) degree with University Medal and First Class Honours, both from the University of Sydney.
Dr Hedley has led the development of wireless positioning technology at CSIRO over the last decade, for which he has been awarded multiple industry awards. Mark is an author of over one hundred international publications, numerous reports for industry, and over ten patents.
Research Program Director, Software and Computational Systems - Liming Zhu
Dr Zhu leads the Software and Computational Systems Research Program at CSIRO's Data61, with over 200 people innovating in the following research areas: big data analytics infrastructure, computational and simulation sciences platforms (including verticals such as satellite/aerial images, visual analytics and AR/VR), data modelling and integration, data platforms, trustworthy systems, distributed systems, business process management, legal informatics/regulation technology, provenance, blockchains, software ecosystems, software engineering/architecture, DevOps, privacy and cybersecurity.
Research Program Director, Engineering and Design - Fawad Nazir
With a background in research, engineering and product design, Dr Nazir has worked across various industries in customer-facing engineering, product design and product innovation.
Earlier in his career, while working at CERN in Switzerland, he published and patented work on discovering the topology of large and complex networks within seconds, worked on analysing and visualising large datasets coming from the world’s largest linear particle accelerators at Stanford University in the US, and wrote algorithms to execute algorithmic trading arbitrage opportunity in nano-seconds.
He now leads the Engineering and Design program at CSIRO's Data61, which specialises in the creation and development of cutting-edge fit-for-purpose technology platforms to help people interact more easily with data, systems and services.
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