Hussein Abbass

Complete list

Services

Service to UNSW-Canberra

  • Elected Member – UNSW Academic Board, 1/2017 to 12/2018

  • Member – UNSW-Canberra Board, 1/2017 to 12/2018

  • Human Research Ethics Advisory Panel - HREA Panel A: UNSW Canberra, 4/2015 to 4/2018

  • Elected Member - UNSW-Canberra Board, 1/2015 to 12/2016

  • Director of the Defence and Security Applications Research Centre, 3/2006 to 12/2010

  • UNSW-Canberra Professorial Promotion Committee, 2008

  • UNSW-Canberra Senior Lecturer Promotion Committee, 2005

  • School research committee, 2004 - 2010

  • School IT user group, 2004 - 2010

  • UNSW-Canberra research committee, 2003 - 2010

  • School PG committee, 2003 - 2010

  • HOS advisory committee, 2003

  • School PG research coordinator, 2003

  • School seminar coordinator, 2000 - 2004

National Leadership

  • Sub-Committee Chair for Conference Liaison, Australian Computer Society national committee on Artificial Intelligence, 2004-2026

  • Member, National Committee on Ethics for Artificial Intelligence, Australian Computer Society, 2019-2020

  • National President, Australian Society for Operations Research, 2016-2019

  • President, Australian Society for Operations Research – Canberra Chapter, 2015-2016

  • Member, Advisory Panel, Trusted Autonomy, Defence Science and Technology Group (DSTG), 2015

  • Chair, Discovery and DECRA Panel, Australian Research Council, Mathematics and Information Communication, 2015

  • Deputy-Chair, Discovery and DECRA Panel, Australian Research Council, Mathematics and Information Communication, 2014

  • Member, College of Experts, Australian Research Council, Mathematics and Information Communication, 2013-2015

  • Academic Board Member, Australian Graduate School of Leadership, Sydney, Australia, 2012-2015

  • Member, Australian Research Council, Mathematics and Information Communication, Excellence Research Australia Committee, 2010

  • Member, National Collaborative Research Infrastructure Strategy (NCRIS), expert sub-committee on Safeguarding Australia, 2008

  • Member, CORE Journal and Conference Ranking Committee, 2007-9

International Leadership

  • Chair of the IEEE Frank Rosenblatt Award Committee, IEEE, 2025-2026

  • Vice-President Technical Activities, IEEE Computational Intelligence Society, 2016-2019

  • Member IEEE CIS, Best Paper in TEVC Sub-Committee, 2017, 2019

  • Founding Chair, IEEE CIS Chapter in ACT, 2015

  • Member IEEE CIS, Awards Committee, 2014-2017

  • Member IEEE CIS, Distinguished Lecturer Committee, 2014-2015

  • Member IEEE CIS, Nomination Committee, 2014

  • Member IEEE CIS, Best Paper in CIM Sub-Committee, 2014

  • Member IEEE CIS, Pioneer Award Sub-Committee, 2012-2013

  • General Chair IEEE World Congress on Computational Intelligence, 2012

  • Member IEEE CIS, Outstanding Organization Award Sub-Committee, 2010-2011

  • Chair IEEE CIS Emerging Technologies Technical Committee, 2013-2014

  • Founding Chair, IEEE-NN-EC Task Force on Artificial Life and Complex Adaptive Systems, 2003

Senior Journal Roles

  • Founding Editor-in-Chief, IEEE Transactions on Artificial Intelligence, IEEE, 2020-2024

  • Editorial Board, Proceedings of the IEEE, IEEE. 2025-Now

  • Senior Associate Editor, ACM Computing Surveys, ACM, 2022-Now

Journal Associate Editorship

  • Associate Editor, IEEE Transactions on Cybernetics, IEEE, 2016-Now

  • Associate Editor, IEEE Transactions on Computational Social Systems, IEEE, 2017- Now

  • Associate Editor, Complex and Intelligent Systems, Springer, 2015-Now

  • Associate Editor, IEEE Transactions on Neural Networks and Learning Systems, IEEE, 2020-2022

  • Associate Editor, IEEE Transactions on Evolutionary Computation, IEEE, 2010-2022

  • Associate Editor, IEEE Transactions on Emerging Topics in Computational Intelligence, IEEE, 2021-2021

  • Associate Editor, ACM Computing Surveys, ACM, 2020-2021

  • Associate Editor, IEEE Transactions on Cognitive and Developmental Systems, IEEE, 2016-2021

  • Associate Editor, International Journal of Intelligent Computing and Cybernetics, Emerald, 2007-2020

  • Associate Editor, Cognitive Computation, Springer, 2015-2020

  • Associate Editor, IEEE Computational Intelligence Magazine, IEEE, 2010-2016

  • Associate Editor, Natural Computing, Springer, 2015-2016

  • Associate Editor, International Journal of Artificial Life Research, 2010-2015

  • Editor, Applied Soft Computing, Elsevier, 2013-2014

  • Associate Editor, Journal of Industrial and Management Optimization, American Institute of Mathematical Sciences, 2011-2014

  • Editorial Board, International Journal of Applied Systemic Studies (IJASS), Inderscience, 2006-2010

Invited Talks

  • Keynote speaker and guest of honour, 11th Intl. Conference on Soft Computing & Machine Intelligence (ISCMI 2024), 2024, Smart Flying Sheepdogs

    Open source

  • Opening keynote: The 20th International Conference on Advanced Data Mining & Applications, ADMA 2024, Opening keynote: Analytics in Decentralised AI Enabled Autonomy, 2024

    Open source

  • Keynote Speaker, IEEE R10 Symposium, TENSYMP 2023, Title: Open Challenges in Artificial Intelligence

    Open source

  • Invited presentation, Defence AI Symposium, UQ, 2023. Title: Contextual Awareness.

    Open source

  • Distinguished Lecture, IEEE Day, IEEE CIS Distinguished Lecturer webinar. Title: From Machine Learning to Machine Education

  • Keynote Speaker, European Conference on Modelling and Simulation (ECMS 2022), Title: On the Role of Modelling and Simulation for AI

  • Invited Speaker: 2nd International Conference on Sustainable Technologies for Industry 4.0 (STI 2020), 19-20 December 2020, Bangladesh. Title: Tenants of Trust and Transparency in Human-Swarm Teaming: Interpretability, Explainability, and Predictability.

  • Invited Speaker: Conference on Artificial Intelligence and Data Analytics for Air Transportation, February 3 to February 4, 2020, Singapore. Title: Apprenticeship Bootstrapping: Intelligent Shepherds for Swarm Traffic Management Systems.

  • Invited Speaker: 24th International Society of Air-breathing Engines, September 22 to September 27, 2019, Canberra, Australia. Title: Artificial Intelligence: How our UNSW-Canberra research is transforming the Air to breathe smartness.

  • Invited Speaker: The rise of complex autonomous systems: current challenges for national security policymakers, Institute For Regional Security - Future Strategic Leaders Congress 18-20 May 2018.

  • Invited Speaker: D61+DSTG Cyber Summer School, 12-13 February 2018, Title: Towards Milliseconds Autonomous Learning in Trusted Human-Swarm Cognitive-Cyber-Physical Missions.

  • Invited Speaker: 1st International Workshop on Human Intelligent machine co-existence (HELIOS) , 9-10 January 2018, Singapore. Title: Trusted Autonomy in Closed Loop Human Machine Systems.

  • Invited Speaker: Australasian Conference on Artificial Life and Computational Intelligence, January 31 to February 2, 2017, Geelong, Melbourne. Title: Trusted Autonomy: Challenges and Opportunities for Computational Intelligence.

  • Invited Speaker: Innovation Month, July 21, 2015, Canberra. Title: Welcome Mr and Mrs RoboGov.

  • Invited Speaker: Emerging Disruptive Technologies Assessment Symposium (EDTAS), July 15-17, 2015, Canberra. Title: Trust in Humans and Machines.

  • Invited Speaker: Research Forum Semi-autonomous systems: trust, control, and letting go, November 10-11, 2015, Defence Science Institute. Title: The Beauty and the Beast of Trusted Autonomy.

  • Invited Speaker: Emerging Disruptive Technologies Assessment Symposium: Trusted Autonomy, July 15-17, 2015, Defence Science and Technology Group. Title: On Trust in Humans and Machines .

  • Invited Speaker: Australasian Conference on Artificial Life and Computational Intelligence, February 5-7, 2015, Newcastle. Title: Cognitive-Cyber Symbiosis.

  • Invited Speaker: The 18th Asia Pacific Symposium on Intelligent and Evolutionary Systems, November, 10-12, 2014, Singapore. Title: Real-time Computational Red Traming of Human Cognition using Encephalographic (EEG) Data.

  • Invited Speaker: The Fourth International Neural Network Society Symposia Series , November, 7-9, 2014, Brunei. Title: Next Generation Intelligent Systems: Observe-Project-Counteract Agent Architecture for Real-time Computational Red Teaming.

  • Invited Lecture: Evolutionary Multi-objective Optimisation for Scenario Design and Real-time Optimisation, National University of Singapore, April 2014.

  • Invited Seminar: Institute for Infocomm Research (I²R), Agency for Science, Technology and Research (A*STAR), March 25, 2014, Singapore. Title: Computational Red Teaming for Integrating the Air Traffic Controller Brain and the Automation Cycle.

  • Invited Seminar: Rolls-Royce, March 14, 2014, Singapore. Title: Computational Red Teaming for Future Automation Systems.

  • Invited Speaker: The 2013 IEEE Symposium on Computational Intelligence for Human-like Intelligence, IEEE SSCI 2013, April, 16-19, 2013, Singapore. Title: Human Experiments in Computational Intelligence.

  • Invited Speaker: The 47th Annual Conference on Statistics, Computer Sciences, and Operations Research, December, 24-27, 2012, Cairo University, Egypt. Title: Role of Optimisation and Simulation in Intelligent Systems.

  • Invited Speaker: The 9th International Conference on Simulated Evolution and Learning, SEAL 2012, December 2012, Ha Noi, Viet Nam. Title: Computational Red Teaming: Can Evolution and Learning Augment Human Behaviour?

  • Invited Speaker: The 1st International Conference on Robot Intelligence Technology and Applications, RiTA 2012, December 2012, Gwangju, Seoul, South Korea. Title: Computational Red Teaming for Air Traffic Management.

  • Invited Speaker: International Workshop on Nature Inspired Computation and Applications, IWNICA'12, October 2012, Hefei, China.

  • Talk 1: "Neural learning using multi-objective estimation methods".

  • Talk 2: "Automatic decomposition and the role of architecture in mining Big Data".

  • Invited Speaker: Networked Enabled Operations, NEO2012, June 2012, Canberra, Australia. Title: Dancing with uncertainty in networked capabilities: How to manouevre in human, cyber and physical terrains.

  • Invited Speaker: Australian Data Mining Conference, ADM 2011, December 2011, Victoria, Australia. Title: Mining Big Data Streams: The Fallacy of Blind Correlation and the Importance of Models.

  • Invited Speaker: Network Centric Operations, NCO Asia 2011, September 2011, Singapore. Title: Network Based Planning and Computational Red Teaming.

  • Invited Speaker: Doctoral Intensive Summer School on meta-heuristics in optimization and intelligent data analysis, 21-26 June, 2011, Alexandru Ioan Cuza, Romania.

  • Invited Speaker: Network Centric Operations Asia, NCO 2010, 19-20 October 2010, Singapore. Title: Network Based Planning and Computational Red Teaming.

  • Invited Speaker: The IEEE World Congress on Computational Intelligence, WCCI 2010, 18-23 July 2010, Barcelona, Spain. Title: Evolutionary Computation for Risk Assessment and Management.

  • Invited speaker: the International Civil Aviation Organization (ICAO) Reduced Vertical Separation Minimum Safety Seminar, Bahrain, Feb 2010

  • Invited Speaker: Network Centric Warfare, NCW 2010, 28-30 April 2010, Canberra. Title: Outlining The Risk Assessment Of Networked Environments.

  • Plenary: Platform Technologies Research Institute Annual Symposium, PTRI 09, 14-15 July, 2009. Title: Computational Red Teaming and Cyber Challenges.

  • Plenary: The 14th International Symposium on Artificial Life and Robotics, AROB 2009, 5-7 February 2009, Beppu, Oita, Japan. Title: The Role of Non-Dominance in Artificial Life and Robotics.

  • Plenary: The 7th International Conference on Simulated Evolution and Learning, SEAL 2008, 7-10 December 2008, Melbourne, Australia. Title: The Future of Intelligent Systems is Non-Dominance.

  • Keynote 3rd International Nonlinear Science Conference, Chuo University, Tokyo, Japan, 13-15 March, 2007. Title: Characterising and Understanding dynamics in reactive heterogeneous multi-agent systems.

  • Keynote International Seminar Series, Intelligent Robot Research Centre, Advanced Institute of Science and Technology (KAIST), Korea, November 2006. Title: Recent Advances on Artificial Life and Adaptive Robotics.

  • Invited Seminar, Centre for Research in Complex Systems, 26/10/2006, Charles Sturt University. Title: Evolutionary methods in artificial intelligence and data mining.

  • Keynote speech at the 8th Asia Pacific Symposium on Intelligent and Evolutionary Systems, 6-7 Dec 2004, Cairns, Australia. Title: The lone thinker of Celigny in learning and agent systems.

  • Invited Seminar, Department of Computer Science, Computational Management Group, 2004, Imperial College London. Title: A Pareto Offer to Real and Artificial Life.

  • Invited Talk, Department of Veterans' Affairs, Australia, 21/10/2003. Title: Data Mining.

  • Invited Talk, DPI, Australia, 20/09/1998., a talk given to The Dept. of Primary Industries, Workshop for extensions, Sunshine Coast. Title: Introducing Neural Networks for Dairy Industry.

  • Invited Seminar, informal talk to the Dept. of Computer Science, Amsterdam University, The Netherlands, 30/06/1997. Title: Decision Making Logic Programming.

  • Invited Seminar, Advanced Modular Topic Lecture Series: Planning and Scheduling, Dept. of AI, Edinburgh University, United Kingdom, 02/07/1997. Title: Time, Resource, and Cost, The triangle of scheduling in OR.

  • Invited Seminar, Advanced Modular Topic Lecture Series: Planning and Scheduling, Dept. of AI, Edinburgh University, United Kingdom, 25/06/1997. Title: OR Vs AI, Competition or Integration.

Selected Key Conference Roles