I am the Melbourne Connect Chair of Digital Innovation for Society
in the School of Computing and Information Systems at the
University of Melbourne

email: tom.drummond@unimelb.edu.au


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Professor Tom Drummond: Melbourne Connect Chair of Digital Innovation for Society

Professor Drummond is the Melbourne Connect Chair of Digital Innovation for Society at the University of Melbourne.  Prior to July 2021, he was Head of Department of Electrical and Computer Systems Engineering at Monash University, where he was also Chief Investigator and Monash Node Leader for the ARC Centre of Excellence in Robotic Vision.  Prior to September 2010, he was a University Senior Lecturer at the University of Cambridge.  His research interests include Artificial Intelligence, Machine Learning, High Performance Computing and Computer Vision, with a particular emphasis on real-time systems for Augmented Reality, Robotics and Assistive Technologies.  He has received the Könderink prize and the ISMAR 10 year impact award for his research and has been awarded ARC and EU Framework research grants totalling in excess of $35M AUD as well as numerous funded industry collaborations.

History

1985-88 BA Mathematics, University of Cambridge 
1988-89 Director of Cambridge Video Unit Ltd and Cambridge Cooperative Development Agency Ltd.
1990-1994 Assistant to Communications Manager, CSIRO Division of Mineral and Process Engineering
1994-1998 PhD, Curtin University, "Learning to recognise important objects in a visual environment"
1998-2001 Research Associate, University of Cambridge
2001-2004 University Lecturer, University of Cambridge
2005-2010 Senior University Lecturer, University of Cambridge
2010-2021 Professor, Monash University
2016-2017, 2018-2021 Head of Department of Electrical and Computer Systems Engineering, Monash University
2021- Melbourne Connect Chair of Digital Innovation for Society, University of Melbourne

Professional activities

I was a member of the Victorian Road Safety Commissioner Reference Group

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