Victorian Partnership for Advanced Computing

Chair

• Professor Iain Wallace
• Independent
• Emeritus Professor, Swinburne University

During the last 30 years Professor Wallace has held a series of academic appointments in the UK, USA and Australia, culminating in appointment as Vice-Chancellor of Swinburne University of Technology in Melbourne, Australia. Throughout this period, he has engaged in fundamental research in the broad areas of cognitive psychology, cognitive science and neural science. This work has resulted in the publication of three books and over 100 shorter publications. Professor Wallace also has a strong background in applied research. Much of his work is interdisciplinary and concerned with the solution of industrial problems.

1957 - MA (University of Glasgow)
1967 - Med (University of Glasgow)
1967 - PhD (University of Bristol)
1980 - Fellow of Australian Social Science Academy

Directors

• Professor Edwina Cornish - Monash University

  Professor Edwina Cornish is the Deputy Vice-Chancellor (Research) at Monash University. Prior to this appointment, Professor Cornish was the Deputy Vice-Chancellor (Research) at the University of Adelaide from 2000 to 2003. Professor Cornish held a number of Board positions and has served as a member of the Prime Minister’s Science and Research Council, the ARC Board and the CRC Committee.

• Mr Robert Cook - La Trobe University

  Robert Cook is currently the Chief Information Officer for La Trobe University (appointed Feb 2005). Prior to the current role, spent about 26 years in the resources industry working for BHP, RTZ and Mt Isa Mines in roles ranging from Research Engineer (Smelting Research) through to consulting, project management, planning and senior line management roles in Information technology.

• Professor David Stokes - Deakin University

  As a student, David completed a PhD in the biological sciences at the University of Melbourne and post-doctoral fellowships at Imperial College in London and the University of Sheffield. Since that time he has worked in higher education in Melbourne in a number of academic positions including Dean of the Faculty of Applied Science at Victoria College, a position he held for ten years. His last full-time academic appointment was Dean of the Faculty of Science and Technology at Deakin University, a position he held for eight years. He holds the position of Emeritus Professor at Deakin University. He is a Fellow of the Environment Institute of Australia. Between 2004 and 2006 David worked on the proposal for the development of the Deakin Medical School. In August 2006 David took up a position as acting DVC(R) at Deakin.

• Professor Doug Grant - Swinburne University of Technology

  During the last 28 years, Professor Grant has held academic and management positions in universities in Scotland, Queensland and Victoria. His current position is Dean, Faculty of Information and Communication Technologies at Swinburne University of Technology in Melbourne. He is a member of the Computer Systems and Software Engineering Board of the Australian Computer Society, and has served as a Director of Software Engineering Australia. Professor Grant is the author of 50 publications in mathematics, computer science and software engineering. His current research interests are in software testing, software process modelling and combinatorial mathematics.

• Professor Neil Furlong - Pro-Vice Chancellor (Research and Development), RMIT University

  Worked with ICI (Australia) Ltd. Academic Research in UK, France, Switzerland and Melbourne, 18 years as Researcher and Research Manager in CSIRO. Most recently Professor of Applied Chemistry and Pro-Vice Chancellor (Research and Development) at RMIT University.

• Ms Linda O’Brien - Vice-Principal (Information), The University of Melbourne

  Ms O'Brien was appointed to the University of Melbourne in March 2004 as Vice-Principal (Information). Ms O'Brien has held senior management positions at the University of Newcastle, the University of Canberra and James Cook University. She has formal qualifications in education, library and information science, public sector management, has completed the Australian Company Directors Diploma and is a Member of the Australian Computer Society. She is also a board member of the Victorian Education and Research Network (VERNet).

• Professor Sid Morris - Head School of Information Technology and Mathematical Sciences, University of Ballarat

  Professor Sid Morris is Professor of Informatics and Head of the School of Information Technology and Mathematical Sciences at the University of Ballarat. Previous positions include Deputy Vice-Chancellor of the University of South Australia, Dean of the Faculty of Informatics at the University of Wollongong, and Professor and Head of Mathematics, Statistics and Computing Science at the University of New England. He is Chair of the Australasian Association of Professors and Heads of Department of Computer Science. He has been a member of Boards of the Australian Consortium for Higher Education in Malaysia, and the Institute of Telecommunications Research, is a Fellow and Honorary Life Member of the Australian Mathematical Society, a Companion of the Institution of Engineers, Australia and Life Governor of Massada College Adelaide Inc

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  1969 - BSc (Hons, Qld)
  1970 - PhD (Flinders)

• Mr Paul Thomson - Independent

  Paul Thomson is Executive Director of KPMG Corporate Finance and Partner of KPMG. He has extensive experience working as an adviser to both government and corporate clients. His experience spans a wide range of advisory assignments including mergers & acquisitions, financing of large scale infrastructure projects, restructuring and privatisation. The projects that he has been involved with include a number of complex public private partnership transactions involving the interface between a private sector contracting entity and government including the Royal Women's Hospital, the Royal Children's Hospital and the Melbourne Convention Centre.

• Professor Linda Rosenman - Victoria University

  Professor Linda Rosenman was recently appointed Deputy-Vice-Chancellor, Research and Region at Victoria University. Previously Professor Rosenman served nine years as foundation Executive Dean of the Faculty of Social and Behavioural Sciences at the University of Queensland, where she was a professor from 1987.She has a long history of large research programs in both the US and Australia - funded through national competitive grants and foundations for research, and has published and presented widely nationally and internationally.