2021 Speaking Engagements

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• 17 February, “What’s going on with Autonomous Vehicles?”, Exaptec/Melbourne Robotics Meetup
• 17 February, HOPE in the Digital Economy Panel, 2021 BiiG Network Public Sector Conference, Brisbane Convention Centre.
• 1 April, “Autonomous Vehicles” Invited Talk, Amity University, India
• 7 April, “Connected and Automated Vehicles – The Human Factor”, ITS Australia / ITS United Kingdom webinar series, online
• 13 April, Plenary Talk: “Mapping the future of autonomous vehicles?”, 17th Asia Pacific Forum on Intelligent Transport Systems, Brisbane Convention and Exhibition Centre.
• 13 April, Panel Discussion: “SIS: Cooperative and Highly Automated Driving Pilot”, 17th Asia Pacific Forum on Intelligent Transport Systems, Brisbane Convention and Exhibition Centre.
• 20 April, QUT Industrial Robotics, “QUT Robotics Club’s upcoming Industry Night
• 05 May, “Biologically-inspired place perception and navigation for robots”, United States-Australia MURI program review, online.
• 06 May, Testifying for the House of Representatives Standing Committee on Industry, Innovation, Science and Resources, Brisbane
• 25 May, “Biologically-inspired place perception and navigation for robots”, AUSMURI DST meeting, Melbourne University (in person)
• 27 May, “Careers Outside Academia – Guiding HDR Students”, QUT Graduate Research Education + Development (GRE+D), (online)
• 11 June, “Biologically-inspired SLAM: Where are we coming from and where could we go?”, Tartan SLAM Series at CMU, online.
• 23 June, “Robotics, AI and Autonomy Technology Outlook”, The Cove’s Future Technologies of War Conference, Gallipoli Army Barracks and online, Brisbane
• 11 July (12th Australia), “Careers in Robotics Debate and Panel”, RSS Pioneers workshop, Robotics Science and Systems 2021.
• 14 July, “Disciplined Curiosity & Realistic Imagination – Using Rigor & Mindset” Panel, part of the QUT Centre for Future Enterprise HDR Colloquium, QUT, Brisbane
• 22 July, “The Revised Future of Mobility Tech”, MTAQ Carmageddon, Motor Trades Association of Queensland, Brisbane
• 27 July, “AI / machine / deep learning Overview”, Queensland Brain Institute Brain Bee Challenge, UQ, Brisbane
• August 3, “Artificial Intelligence, Robotics and Autonomous Vehicles”, UQ IEEE HKN Chapter Technical Talk, Online
• August 5 , “Localization and Perception for Autonomous Vehicles”, AI, Robotics, and Autonomous Driving BMW Seminar, online (BMW staff only), UQ IEEE HKN chapter
• 23 August, CQUniversity community of practice talk
• August 26, “Approaching and managing industry/end user partners”, ORS Research Bootcamp – Approaching and Managing Industry/End User Partners, QUT
• 26/27 August, Invited Keynote at the International Conference on Signal Processing and Integrated Networks”, SPIN 2021, India (online)
• 8 September, Talk and Panel, “Connected and automated vehicle technologies, with an Australian lense”, AITPM National Traffic & Transport Conference, online (originally was in person at Brisbane Convention Centre but went online due to COVID).
• 15 September, “Bridging the Divide Between Neuroscience, Robotics and Machine Learning”, NeuroAI series, University College London (online)
• 29 September, Invited Keynote at AACB 58th Annual Scientific Conference, Royal International Convention Centre, Brisbane
• 01 October, QUT Future You STEM Summit, Brisbane
• 11-17 0ct, Invited Speaker, Long-Term Visual Localization under Changing Conditions Workshop, ICCV2021.
• 28 October, “Biologically-Inspired Mapping as a Foundation for Building the Complete Autonomy Kit”, National Science Foundation’s Understanding-the-Brain Coordinating Group’s (UtB CG) miniseries: Convergence of New Insights from Neuroscience and Engineering, Online / US audience.
• 24 November, “Hacking Academia: Everything You Ever Wanted to Know, and Some Stuff You Didn’t But Should”, University of Queensland Queensland Brain Institute HDR Early Career Researcher Committee Symposium, Hillstone Restaurant and Function Centre, St Lucia, Brisbane.
• 25 November, “Engaging with Industry”, QUT Office of Industry Engagement symposium
• 1 December, “Developing your Global Reputation workshop”, QUT