Sally Cripps

I am an internationally recognized scholar and leader in Bayesian Machine Learning (ML) and Artificial Intelligence (AI). In addition to my role as Director of Technology at the Human Technology Institute I am also is a Professor of Mathematics and Statistics at the University of Technology Sydney. I was cofounder and co-director of the University of Sydney’s Centre for Translation Data Science (CTDS), founder and Director of the Australian Research Council’s Industrial Transformation Training Centre (ARC ITTC) Data Analytics for Resources and Environments (DARE). Most recently I was Research Director of Analytics and Decision Science and Science Director of the Next Gen AI Training Programme in CSIRO’s Data61.

My research focuses on the development of new foundational methods in AI to address global challenges. My work has been published in the world’s most prestigious statistical and machine learning journals such as, The Journal of the Royal Statistical Society, and the Journal of the American Statistical Association; Theory and methods, (JASA), Biometrika and Journal of Computational and Graphical Statistics (JCGS), Conference on Neural Information Processing Systems (NeurIPS) and Conference on Artificial Intelligence and Statistics (AIStats). I have applied these methods to a diverse range of fields including social disadvantage, mental health, climate, minerals and the environment. In recognition of the quality of her research Sally was awarded an ARC Future Fellowship and a visiting scholar fellowship to the Alan Turing Institute in the UK.