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 Technology Research Laboratory in the Centre of Intelligent Information Systems.

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 2008 and 2009 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 ...

We have joined forces with the University of Science and Technology China to create a new Robot Soccer Team WrightEagle Unleashed! which will compete at the Robot Soccer Championship in 2008.

Business 2020s May 29 @ the Australian Innovation Festival 2008!

IBM Faculty Award Recipient 2007 - 2008

Invited Presentation @ National Youth Science Forum 2008

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)

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, 2007 (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.

International Symposium on Commonsense Reasoning 2007 (Program Committee), Stanford University.

Our robot soccer team UTS Unleashed! was invited to China to conduct a number of robot soccer matches at China Science Week in collaboration with the University of Science and Technology of China, Peking University, and TongJi University in Shanghai. China Science Week is organised by China's Ministry of Science and Technology. The organisers at Souzhou Education town did a great job and we would like to thank our Chinese host, Professor Xiaoping Chen, for an inviting us to China for what turned out to be an awesome experience. Check us out on Chinese TV.

Some happenings in 2008 and beyond ...

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

International Conference on Autonomous Agents and Multiagent Systems (AAMAS'08) Estoril, Portugal, May 12 - May 16, 2008 (Senior Program Committee).

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

The First Conference on Artificial General Intelligence (AGI-08) Memphis, USA, March 1-3, 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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