Prof. Hussein Abbass

Artificial Intelligence - Autonomous Systems - Humans - Swarm - Trust

Services to University

  • July - 2021 to Now, Acting Deputy Head of School - People
  • Jan - 2017 to Dec - 2018, Elected Member - UNSW Academic Board
  • Apr - 2015 to Apr - 2018, Human Research Ethics Advisory Panel - HREA Panel A: UNSW Canberra
  • Jan - 2015 to Dec - 2018, Elected Member - UNSW-Canberra Board
  • Mar - 2006 to Dec - 2010, Director of the Defence and Security Applications Research Centre
  • 2008, UNSW-Canberra Professorial Promotion Committee
  • 2005, UNSW-Canberra Senior Lecturer Promotion Committee
  • 2004 - 2010, School research committee
  • 2004 - 2010 School IT user group
  • 2003 - 2010, UNSW-Canberra research committee
  • 2003 - 2010 School PG committee
  • 2003, HOS advisory committee
  • 2003 School PG research coordinator
  • 2000 - 2004, School seminar coordinator

Services to the Australian Community

  • National President (2016-2019), Australian Society for Operations Research (ASOR).
  • Academic Board Member (2012-Now), Australian Graduate School of Leadership, Sydney, Australia.
  • ARC College, EMI, (2013-2015): Australian Research Council, Engineering, Mathematics, and Information Cluster. 
  • REC Member (2010): Australian Research Council, Mathematics, Information and Communication, Excellence of Research Australia. 
  • Expert Sub-committee Member (2008): National Collaborative Research infrastructure strategy (NCRIS) expert sub-committee on Safeguarding Australia. 
  • Expert Member (2008): Review Panel for DSTO Long Range Research (LRR) program, Australia. 
  • Member (2007-2009): Computing Research and Education Association of Australasia (CORE) Journal and Conference Ranking Committee, Australia.

Services to the International Community

  • Founding Editor-in-Chief (2020-2022), IEEE Transactions on Artificial Intelligence.
  • Vice-President for Technical Activities (2016-2019): The IEEE Computational Intelligence Society.
  • Member (2014-2017): The IEEE Computational Intelligence Society, Awards Committee. 
  • Member (2014-2015): The IEEE Computational Intelligence Society, Distinguished Lecturer Committee. 
  • Member (2010-2015): The Air Traffic Control Association (ATCA) Publication Committee 
  • Member (2014): The IEEE Computational Intelligence Society, Nomination Committee. 
  • Member (2014): The IEEE Computational Intelligence Society, Best Paper in CIM Sub-Committee 
  • Member (2012-2013): The IEEE Computational Intelligence Society, Pioneer Award Sub-Committee 
  • Member (2010-2011): The IEEE Computational Intelligence Society, Outstanding Organization Award Sub-Committee 
  • Chair (2013-2014) of the Emerging Technologies Technical Committee, IEEE Computational Intelligence Society. 
  • Member (2012-2014), Industrial Systems Technical Committee, IEEE Computational Intelligence Society.  
  • Founding Chair (2003-2011): The IEEE-NN-EC Task Force on Artificial Life and Complex Adaptive Systems 
  • Member (2007-2016), Data Mining Technical Committee, IEEE Computational Intelligence Society. 
  • Member (2005-2016), Evolutionary Computation Technical Committee, IEEE Computational Intelligence Society.

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