ProfessorIrena Koprinska

PhD and MSc (Computer Science), MEd (Higher Education)

I am Professor at the School of Computer Science, University of Sydney. My research is in Machine Learning, Data Mining and Neural Networks. I also teach courses in these areas -Introduction to Artificial Intelligence, and Machine Learning and Data Mining. I have received several best paper and other research awards and two times the Dean's Award for Outstanding Teaching. I have supervised to completion 11 PhD and about 60 Honours thesis students, all in Machine Learning. My students have received many prizes and awards including the Google Fellowship in Machine Learning which recognises exceptional research and the prestigious ZONTA International Women in Technology Scholarship. I have been co-organising the Data Science for Social Good workshop at ECML PKDD since 2017. I am Associate Editor of the International Journal of Artificial Intelligence in Education (IJAIED) and the International Journal of Data Science and Analytics (IJDSA), and an editorial board member of the Journal of Educational Data Mining (JEDM); I have taken leadership roles in leading conferences on Artificial Intelligence and Machine Learning and regularly serve on their program committees. I am currently the Associate Head Research Education for the School of Computer Science, and previously was the Sub-Dean Teaching and Learning for the Faculty of Engineering.