Hi! Welcome to my microsite at The University of Technology, Sydney in Australia, where I am a Research Professor and Director of the Innovation and Enterprise Research Laboratory.

If you are interested in applying to enrol in a Research Degree e.g. PhD or Masters, please feel free to contact me. A range of scholarships are available. Research topics of interest in the Innovation and Technology Research Laboratory for 2009 and 2010 include, but are not limited to:

  • Innovation, IT & the Law
  • Business Strategy
  • Cognitive Systems
  • Decision Making and Risk Management
  • Global Business

  • Strategic Management
  • Knowledge Management
  • Logic-based Artificial Intelligence
  • Strategic Business Innovation & Collaboration
  • Innovation Management

Breaking News ...

Keynote Speaker @ 2008 Conference on Innovation, Competition and Regulation, Institute of Law for Science and Technology, National Tsing Hua University.

Keynote Speaker @ International Conference on Underwater System Technology, Indonesia, November 2008.

Keynote Speaker @ International Conference on Materials and Sensations, France, October 2008.

Elected Representative at Large, Strategic Management Society (2008 - 2011)

We joined forces with the University of Science and Technology China to create a new Robot Soccer Team WrightEagle Unleashed! which recently competed at the Robot Soccer Championship in China. The team topped its round robin group (scoring 22 goals, conceding 0) and made it to the Finals. Check us out on Chinese TV.

Business 2020s @ the Australian Innovation Festival 2008!

IBM Faculty Award Recipient

Invited Presentation @ National Youth Science Forum 2008

Appointed Review Editor for the Artificial Intelligence Journal 2007 - 2010.

Awarded a 2008 Pauli Fellowship at the Wolfgang Pauli Institute, Vienna which is a Center of Excellence in Austria.

Appointed as Guest Professor at the University of Science and Technology of China 2006 - 2009.

Women in Information and Communication, The Australian National University, International Women's Day, (Invited Speaker).

2008 China International Conference in Finance will be held in Chengdu, China. The conference is organized by Tsinghua University and Sloan School of Management, MIT.

Some happenings in 2008 and beyond ...

International Commonsense Reasoning Symposium 2009 (Co-Chair with Leora Morgenstern, IBM Research)

Knowledge Management for Service Innovation, Japan, 2008 (Program Committee)

International Conference on Autonomous Agents and Multiagent Systems (AAMAS'08) Estoril, Portugal,2008 (Senior Program Committee).

International Conference on Knowledge Representation and Reasoning (KR2008) (Program Committee).

International Conference on Practical Aspects of Knowledge Management, Japan 2008.

The First Conference on Artificial General Intelligence (AGI-08) Memphis, USA, 2008 (Program Committee).

American Artificial Intelligence Conference (AAAI) 2008 (Program Committee)

European Conference on Artificial Intelligence (ECAI) 2008 (Program Committee)

European Conference on Logics in Artificial Intelligence (JELIA) 2008 (Program Committee)

World Cup Robot Soccer International Symposium 2008 (Program Committee)

International Workshop on Nonmonotonic Reasoning (NMR) 2008 (Program Committee)

Symposium on Learning and Adaptive Behavior in Robotic Systems (LAB-RS 2008) 2008 (Program Committee)












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