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ProfessorKatina Michael

Director, MBA (Technology and Digital Strategy)

Business School

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  • Director, MBA (Technology and Digital Strategy)
    Business School

SERVICE & LEADERSHIP SUMMARy

Leadership

Before Katina took on the role of MBA Program Director at the University of Sydney, she was a joint professor in the School for the Future of Innovation in Society and School of Computing and Augmented Intelligence where she was also the Director of the Center for Engineering, Policy and Society (CEPS) and a Senior Global Futures Scientist at Arizona State University. She was also the Associate Dean International of the Faculty of Engineering and Information Sciences at the University of Wollongong among other roles, and spent most of her industry experience as a Senior Network and Business Planner at Nortel Networks from the mid-90s to the dot.com. Along the way she has also taught sessional classes at the Singapore Institute of Management and Toulouse Business School. She has held visiting academic appointments at Nanjing University, Southampton University, and Newcastle University in the UK. 

 

Professional Service

Katina has been a senior member of the Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers (IEEE) for more than two decades. She has held numerous voluntary roles associated with the IEEE Society on the Social Implications of Technology (SSIT), IEEE Standards Association (SA), and more recently the IEEE Consumer Technology Society (CTSoc). She has been a board member of the Australian Privacy Foundation (APF) since 2008, and also a Consumers' Representative for the Consumers' Federation of Australia (CFA). Katina was also an ELSI panelist for DARPA (Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency) on the ADAPTER (ADvanced Acclimation and Protection Tool for Environmental Readiness) project in the Biological Technologies Office (BTO) between 2021 and 2024. Since 2024 she has also been a fellow of the Social Cyber Institute (SCI).

 

Standards Development

Katina has contributed to the following standards development efforts in various roles:

  • CWA 18016 CEN-CENELEC Workshop Agreement on Age Appropriate Digital Services Framework (Workshop Member Approver)
  • IEEE 2089-2021 of the IEEE Standard for an Age Appropriate Digital Services Framework Based on the 5Rights Principles for Children (Working Party Chair)
  • AS 5388.4-2013 Forensic analysis — Reporting (Consumer Representative)
  • AS 5388.3-2013 Forensic analysis — Interpretation (Consumer Representative)
  • AS 5388.2-2012 Forensic analysis — Analysis and examination of material (Consumer Representative)
  • AS 5388.1-2012 Forensic analysis — Recognition, recording, recovery, transport and storage of material (Consumer Representative)
  • AS 5483-2012 Minimizing the risk of contamination in products used to collect and analyse biological material for forensic DNA purposes (Consumer Representative)
  • AS 5239-2011 Examination of ignitable liquids in fire debris (Consumer Representative)

 

Editorial Responsibilities

During her time in academia, Katina discovered her love for editing. She was a technical editor for the Journal of Theoretical and Applied Electronic Commerce Research (JTAER) from 2005-2010, an editor of Elsevier's Computers & Security (2010-2012), an associate editor at Springer's Social Network Analysis and Mining (2012-2014), the editor-in-chief for the IEEE Technology and Society Magazine for two terms (2012-2017), and the founding editor-in-chief of the IEEE Transactions on Technology and Society (2020-2025).

 

Conference Chairing

Katina has chaired and hosted six international conferences:

  • 2010 The Social Implications of Emerging Technologies, IEEE International Symposium on Technology and Society (ISTAS 10) at the University of Wollongong, Australia (Technical Program Chair)
  • 2013 Social Implications of Wearable Computers and Augmediated Reality in Every Day Life, IEEE International Symposium on Technology and Society (ISTAS 13) at the University of Toronto, Canada (Technical Program Chair)
  • 2020 Public Interest Technology, IEEE International Symposium on Technology and Society (ISTAS 20) at Arizona State University, USA (General Chair)
  • 2020 Public Interest Technology-University Network Conference (Co-organiser)
  • 2022 AAG Summit on Locational Information and the Public Interest, University of California Santa Barbara, USA (Co-organiser)
  • 2022 Applying Engineering Solutions to a Complex Set of Issues, IEEE International Symposium on Digital Privacy and Social Media (ISDPSM 22) in San Jose, California, USA (Executive Chair)

 

Human Factors Series of Workshops

In 2006 Katina established the Human Factors Series Workshop titled The Social Implications of National Security as part of the Centre of Excellence - Research Network for a Secure Australia (RNSA). The Workshop Series was funded by multiple CoE for the first 6 years, inclusive of the Center of Excellence in Policy and Security (CEPS). By 2013 the series went global and was rebranded as SINS, the acronym of the workshop series title. Four edited books were produced between 2006 and 2009, several special issue proceedings in journals, among other milestones.

  • 2006 The Social Implications of Information Security Measures on Citizens and Business (Katina Michael, M.G. Michael), University of Wollongong, Wollongong, NSW
  • 2007 From Dataveillance to Uberveillance and the Realpolitik of the Transparent Society (Katina Michael, M.G. Michael), University of Wollongong, Wollongong, NSW
  • 2008 Australia and the New Technologies: Evidence Based Policy in Public Administration (Katina Michael, M.G. Michael), Co-located with Safeguarding Australia Conference, Canberra, ACT
  • 2009 The Social Implications of Covert Policing (Simon Bronitt, Clive Harfield, Katina Michael), Australian National University, Canberra, ACT
  • 2010 The Social Implications of Emerging Technologies (Andrew Goldsmith, Katina Michael), Co-located with ISTAS, University of Wollongong, NSW
  • 2012 Sousveillance and the Social Implications of POV in Law Enforcement (Katina Michael, Andrew Goldsmith), University of Sydney, NSW
  • 2013 UAVs: Pros versus Cons (Katina Michael, Avner Levin), Ryerson University, Ontario, Canada
  • 2014 The Social Implications of Drones, University of Melbourne, Australia
  • 2016 The Socio-Ethical Implications of Implantable Technologies in the Military Sector (Katina Michael, M.G. Michael, Jai C. Galliot, Rob Nicholls), Co-located with Norbert Wiener Conference, The University of Melbourne, Victoria
  • 2017 Biometrics and Regulation (Katina Michael, Rob Nicholls, Monique Mann, and Mr Peter Leonard), University of Wollongong CBD, NSW
  • 2018 Data Alive (Katina Michael) Arizona State University in Washington DC, USA
  • 2019 Social Media and AI (Katina Michael), Arizona State University in Washington DC, USA
  • 2020 Responsible AI: Ensuring Reliable, Safe & Trustworthy Systems (Katina Michael and Roba Abbas), Arizona State University in Washington DC, USA
  • 2021 AI in Cybersecurity: Socio-Technical & Environmental Considerations (Katina Michael and Kathleen Vogel), Arizona State University, USA (virtual)  
  • 2022 Securitization for Sustainability of People and Place: A Call to Transdisciplinarity (Roba Abbas, Katina Michael, Jeremy Pitt, Kathleen Vogel), Co-located with ISTAS22 Hong Kong (virtual)

 

Webinar and Roundtable Series

Katina has also chaired several full-length webinar and roundtable series:

 

Colloquia

At Arizona State University, Katina began the inaugural Public Interest Technology Colloquium which ran for four seasons between 2020 and 2023. The Colloquium highlighted inter-/trans-disciplinary research from around the world, attracting scholars and practitioners to present and respond to questions from the audience on how best to address global challenges given the complexity of modern systems. The PIT Colloquium featured more than 100 speakers, and hundreds of participants across this multi-year series.

 

Consulting

Given Katina's consulting background in industry she has enjoyed many opportunities to engage industry, government and the third sector. A representative list of clients and stakeholders can be found below:

 

Awards, Honors & Nominations

  • IEEE Standards Association Managing Director’s Special Recognition Award for IEEE 2089-2021 in 2022 for leadership in establishing IEEE 2089 - Age Appropriate Digital Services for Children, United States, 2022.
  • Outstanding Faculty Mentor Award (Nominee/Finalist), Arizona State University, United States, 2022.
  • Humanitarian Project Award, IEEE Region 6, Championing IEEE humanitarian initiatives at a global level for the design of technology toward the values of justice, equity, diversity and inclusion IEEE R6 Awards, Humanitarian Project Award, United States, 2022.
  • Faculty Women’s Association Outstanding Faculty Mentor Award (Nominee/Finalist), Arizona State University Women's Association, United States, 2021.
  • IEEE Phoenix section’s Outstanding Member Contributing to Global Humanitarian Projects Award 2020 for her contributions to a better understanding of the impact of emerging technologies on humanity, United States, 2020.
  • ICTO (International Conference on Technologies & Organisations) Golden Medal Award for lifetime achievement in information systems, France, 2020.
  • IEEE Society on the Social Implications of Technology (SSIT) Brian O’Connell Award for Distinguished Service to the IEEE Society on the Social Implications of Technology, United States, 2017.
  • Award of Excellence – Ozzies (FOLIO) given to IEEE Technology and Society Magazine under my lead editorship – STC Technical Communications. An annual programme recognising editorial and design excellence in publishing., United States, 2015.
  • Chinese Foreign Researcher Award, Jiangsu Provincial Natural Science Foundation, Nanjing University, China, 2013-16, China, 2013.
  • Dux of Master of Transnational Crime Prevention degree, University of Wollongong, Faculty of Law, Highest Weighted Average Mark attained in the MCTCP degree, Australia, 2009.
  • Postgraduate Full Scholarship for Masters in Transnational Crime Prevention, University of Wollongong, 2007.
  • Bachelors Full Scholarship for the Bachelor of Information Technology, 1994.

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