Our people

Founder and Director

Deputy Director

Research Director

Director of Industry and External Relations

Director of Law and Policy

Director of Governance and Strategy

• Dr Sharif Abuadbba, CSIRO
• Qinghua Lu, CSIRO
• Dr Safoora Pitsi, Excelsia University College
• Haochen Shi, Standford University
• Ziyuan Wang
• Dr Jack Yang, Deakin University

• Amanda Barnier, Pro Vice-Chancellor (Research Performance & Development), Macquarie University
• Gayan Benedict, CTO, Salesforce
• Samira Ghodratnama, Staff AI Scientist, Google
• Srini Goluguri, Country Head, LTIMindtree
• Mahesh Krishnan, CTO, Fujitsu Oceania
• Usman Shahbaz, Director, Responsible AI and Capability, Optus
• Anthony Shaw, Technical Advisor, Apps and Agents, Microsoft
• Lyndal Sivell, Head of Legal – Commercial and Corporate for Australia, NZ, Fiji and PNG, EY