Prof. Hussein Abbass

Professor Abbass joined the University of New South Wales (UNSW), Canberra, in February 2000, where he became a full professor in 2007. He was a UNSW John-Yu visiting fellow at the Department of Computer Science, Imperial College London, in 2003, a visiting professor at the Department of General Engineering, University of Illinois – Urbana Champaign in 2005, a visiting professor at the National Defence Academy of Japan in 2013, and a visiting professor at the Department of Electrical and Computer Engineering, National University of Singapore in 2014. He is a fellow of the Australian Computer Society, UK Operational Research Society, and the Institute of Management and Leaders.

He is currently the Vice-president for Technical Activities, IEEE Computational Intelligence Society (2016-2019). He was the National President for the Australian Society for Operations Research (2017-2019). He is an associate Editor of IEEE Trans. on Evolutionary Computation, IEEE Trans. on Cybernetics, IEEE Trans. on Cognitive and Developmental Systems, and four other journals. Professor Abbass is an advocate for Trusted AI and Trusted Smart Autonomous Systems. His research designs next generation artificial intelligence systems for trusted autonomy, human-swarm teaming and air shepherding www.husseinabbass.net