AI is the predominant tech topic in Australia today but a dearth of workers are properly trained to use it to the fullest. This is due to a long-standing focus on theoretical learning rather than practical. However, AI itself may bridge this gap and empower Australians to bolster their economy and contribute to the country’s collaborative working culture.
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Professor Anton van den Hengel is the founding director of the Australian Institute for Machine Learning, a chief investigator of the Australian Centre of Excellence for Robotic Vision, and a professor of computer science at the University of Adelaide. He has served as a chief investigator on research projects that have collectively received over $60 million in external funding from sources including Google, Canon, Facebook, BHP Billiton, and The ARC. The numerous awards he’s won include the Pearcey Foundation Entrepreneur Award, the SA Science Excellence Award for Research Collaboration, and the CVPR Best Paper Prize. He has authored over 300 publications, commercialised eight patents, formed two start-ups, and recently achieved first-in-class FDA approval for a medical technology.
Sarah Bankins is an associate professor in the Department of Management at Sydney’s Macquarie University. She completed her PhD at the Queensland University of Technology, Australia. Her primary research interests span two areas, linked by a focus on the role of people in work processes. Her first research area investigates the employee-employer relationship through the lens of the psychological contract. Her second research area focuses on individuals' roles in innovation processes in organisational and regional contexts to explore how people navigate cultural, political, and power dynamics to achieve innovative outcomes. She has published her work in leading journals such as the Journal of Organisational Behaviour, R&D Management, and the Australian Journal of Public Administration.
Professor Paul Formosa is the head of the Department of Philosophy at Macquarie University and a co-director of the Macquarie University Ethics and Agency Research Centre (previously known as CAVE). Paul has taught at Macquarie since 2009, in which time he’s served as a Macquarie University Research Fellow, an Australian Research Council DECRA Fellow, and a CI on industry-funded research and various ARC Discovery projects. Paul has also served as an elected member of the University Senate and the Faculty Board and previously served as Department HDR and MRes Director.
Evan E. Lambert is a journalist, travel writer, essayist, and short fiction writer with bylines at Thought Catalog, Business Insider, Mic, People, Queerty, BuzzFeed, Going, The Discoverer, and many more. You can check out his other work at https://evanlambert.journoportfolio.com/.
