Dr Chris McCarthy received his BSc(Hons) (1999) and Masters (2005) degrees in computer science from The University of Melbourne, and PhD from the Australian National University in 2010. Chris has worked both domestically and internationally as an academic lecturer and researcher in computer vision and robotics, having held positions in Singapore (1999-2001), Italy (2007) and most recently with NICTA's Computer Vision Research Group in Canberra (2009-2015), and is a member of the Bionic Vision Australia consortium. In 2015 he took up a lecturing position with Swinburne University of Technology.