ProfessorRichard Dazeley
Deputy Head of School
Faculty of Science Engineering and Built Environment/School of Information Technology
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- Deputy Head of SchoolFaculty of Science Engineering and Built Environment/School of Information Technology
- +61 3 522 78950 (Work)
- Geelong Waurn Ponds Campus, 75 Pigdons Road, Waurn Ponds, Victoria 3216
BIO
Professor Richard Dazeley is the Deputy Head of School for the School of Information Technology (SIT) at Deakin University. He is also the lead investigator in the School's program of research into eXplainability for Human-aligned Autonomous Systems (XHAS) and the Leader for the Machine
Intelligence Lab in the Centre for Data to Intelligence (D2I). Externally, he is a senior member of the International AI Existential Safety Community with the Future of Life Institute; founding and leading member of the International Multiobjective Reinforcement Learning community; and, the co-founder/leader of the Australian Responsible Autonomous Agents Collective (ARAAC). Previously, between 2018-2023, he had been the Associate Head of School (Research) and Course Director for the Master of Applied Artificial Intelligence and the Bachelor of Computer Science. At Federation University (2007-2018) he had been the Head of Discipline (Information Technology) and the Associate Dean Learning and Teaching.
Professor Dazeley is an internationally leading researcher in Multiobjective Reinforcement Learning (MORL) and its application to the Human-alignment problem. As one of the founding researchers of MORL he is an author of several of the key papers in the field; frequent internationally invited speaker; guest editor of journals; and workshop organiser in the field. His work in the human-alignment problem has resulted in his increasing profile in the debate on the emergence of Artificial General Intelligence (AGI); acceptance as a senior member of the prestigious international AI Existential safety community; invited to UC Berkeley's NSF funded consortium on Safe and Beneficial AI; published in public forums; and, invitations as speaker to a range of international and national forums. He has led several major research projects as a chief investigator including international partnerships.
As an educator Professor Dazeley has been recognised as a nationally leading ICT Curriculum Designer - receiving the Australian National Award as ICT Educator of the Year (2016) from the Australian Computer Society (ACS) and was nominated for the International ICT Educator of the Year award from the South-East Asia Regional Computer Confederation (SEARCC) (2017). He has consulted closely with the development of the Australian Primary and Secondary National Curriculum, worked with the ACS and industry in the development of national industry standards, and provided consultation across a number of Australian universities on the development of innovative curriculum. He primarily teaches in the areas of machine learning, artificial intelligence, programming, algorithms, game/graphics programming.
Research Groups
External: Senior member of the International AI Existential Safety Community
with the Future of Life Institute
External: Co-leader of the Australian Responsible Autonomous Agents Collective
(ARAAC).
External: Founding member of the International Multiobjective Reinforcement
Learning Community (MORL-com).
Internal: Leader Machine Intelligence Lab (MIL).
Internal: Chief Investigator of the eXplainable Human-aligned Autonomous
Systems (XHAS) Program of research.
Intelligence Lab in the Centre for Data to Intelligence (D2I). Externally, he is a senior member of the International AI Existential Safety Community with the Future of Life Institute; founding and leading member of the International Multiobjective Reinforcement Learning community; and, the co-founder/leader of the Australian Responsible Autonomous Agents Collective (ARAAC). Previously, between 2018-2023, he had been the Associate Head of School (Research) and Course Director for the Master of Applied Artificial Intelligence and the Bachelor of Computer Science. At Federation University (2007-2018) he had been the Head of Discipline (Information Technology) and the Associate Dean Learning and Teaching.
Professor Dazeley is an internationally leading researcher in Multiobjective Reinforcement Learning (MORL) and its application to the Human-alignment problem. As one of the founding researchers of MORL he is an author of several of the key papers in the field; frequent internationally invited speaker; guest editor of journals; and workshop organiser in the field. His work in the human-alignment problem has resulted in his increasing profile in the debate on the emergence of Artificial General Intelligence (AGI); acceptance as a senior member of the prestigious international AI Existential safety community; invited to UC Berkeley's NSF funded consortium on Safe and Beneficial AI; published in public forums; and, invitations as speaker to a range of international and national forums. He has led several major research projects as a chief investigator including international partnerships.
As an educator Professor Dazeley has been recognised as a nationally leading ICT Curriculum Designer - receiving the Australian National Award as ICT Educator of the Year (2016) from the Australian Computer Society (ACS) and was nominated for the International ICT Educator of the Year award from the South-East Asia Regional Computer Confederation (SEARCC) (2017). He has consulted closely with the development of the Australian Primary and Secondary National Curriculum, worked with the ACS and industry in the development of national industry standards, and provided consultation across a number of Australian universities on the development of innovative curriculum. He primarily teaches in the areas of machine learning, artificial intelligence, programming, algorithms, game/graphics programming.
Research Groups
External: Senior member of the International AI Existential Safety Community
with the Future of Life Institute
External: Co-leader of the Australian Responsible Autonomous Agents Collective
(ARAAC).
External: Founding member of the International Multiobjective Reinforcement
Learning Community (MORL-com).
Internal: Leader Machine Intelligence Lab (MIL).
Internal: Chief Investigator of the eXplainable Human-aligned Autonomous
Systems (XHAS) Program of research.
DEAKIN UNIVERSITY CURRENT APPOINTMENT
- Deputy Head of SchoolDeakin University, School of Information Technology
ACADEMIC POSITIONS
- Deputy Head of SchoolDeakin University, Geelong, Australia30 Jun 2022 - present
- Associate Head of School (Research)Deakin University, Geelong, Australia29 Jan 2021 - 3 Jun 2022
- Course Director of the Master of Applied Artificial IntelligenceDeakin University, Geelong, Australia1 Mar 2020 - 3 May 2021
- Course Director Bachelor of Computer ScienceDeakin University, Geelong, Australia1 Jul 2018 - 28 Feb 2020
- Head of Discipline (Information Technology)Federation University Australia, Ballarat, School of Engineering and Information Technology, Ballarat, Australia1 Aug 2014 - 7 Jun 2018
- Associate Dean (Learning and Teaching)Federation University Australia, Ballarat, School of Science, Information Technology and Engineering, Ballarat, Australia1 Nov 2011 - 31 Jul 2014
- LecturerFederation University Australia, Ballarat, School of Information Technology and Mathematical Sciences, Ballarat, Australia1 Jun 2007 - 1 Nov 2011
- Sessional Lecturer/TutorUniversity of Tasmania, Hobart, School of Computing, Hobart, Australia1 Mar 1998 - 31 Dec 2005
NON-ACADEMIC POSITIONS
- Software DeveloperDitech Solutions, Hobart, Australia1 Jan 2006 - 1 May 2007
DEGREES
- Doctor of PhilosophyUniversity of Tasmania
- Bachelor of ComputingUniversity of Tasmania
FIELDS OF RESEARCH
- Computer vision and multimedia computation
- Artificial intelligence
- Data management and data science
- Machine learning
- Autonomous agents and multiagent systems
- Intelligent robotics
- Knowledge representation and reasoning
- Human-centred computing
- Affective computing
- Collaborative and social computing
- Fairness, accountability, transparency, trust and ethics of computer systems
- Human-computer interaction
- Social robotics
- Mixed initiative and human-in-the-loop
- Reinforcement learning
AVAILABILITY FOR SUPERVISION
- Masters by Research and PhD supervision
AREA/FACULTY
- Faculty of Science Engineering and Built Environment
DEPARTMENT/SCHOOL/INSTITUTE/DISCIPLINE
- School of Information Technology