Flora D. Salim

Flora Salim is an Associate Professor at School of Science, RMIT University. Her research interests include context and behaviour modelling, time-series and spatio-temporal data mining, and pattern recognition and machine learning. She is a Humboldt-Bayer Fellow (from Bayer Foundation GmbH), Humboldt Fellow -- experienced researcher (from Alexander von Humboldt Foundation), Victoria Fellow 2018 (frome Victorian government). She was the recipient of the the RMIT Vice-Chancellor's Award for Research Excellence – Early Career Researcher 2016; the RMIT Award for Research Impact - Technology 2018; Victorian iAwards (2014), Australian Research Council (ARC) Postdoctoral Research Industry (APDI) Fellow (2012-2015); IBM Smarter Planet Industry Skills Innovation Award (2010); and a Google Anita Borg Scholar (2008). She obtained her PhD from Monash University in 2009, prior to which she worked as a Senior Software Engineer in the IT sector, developing real-time signal and content monitoring solutions for the broadcasting industry. She also had a 3-year experience working as a postdoc in an ARC Linkage project in the Architecture, Engineering, and Construction domain prior to her APDI fellowship. She obtained her Bachelor of Computing (Hons) with First Class Honours from Monash University in 2004, and she received the Best Thesis Award in her undergraduate Honours from Australian DSTC. She is an Associate Editor of the PACM on Interactive, Mobile, Wearable and Ubiquitous Technologies (IMWUT), and an Area Editor of Pervasive and Mobile Computing.
She is a Co-Deputy Director of RMIT Centre for Information Discovery and Data Analytics.