Group Manager and Senior Researcher
Neville Roach Laboratory, Kensington, Sydney

Bernhard Hengst

Short Bio

Bernhard Hengst is Research Group Manager, Making Sense of Data research theme, at the Neville Roach Research Laboratory, NICTA at Kensington in Sydney. His research interests include machine intelligence and robotics. Prior to joining NICTA, Dr Hengst was General Manger at Ferntree Computer Corporation Limited in Australia and GE Capital IT Solutions in the USA. Previously he worked in Operations Research for ICI Limited in Australia and the UK. Dr Hengst holds a PhD from the University of New South Wales.

Research Interests

General purpose intelligent systems that can learn and be taught to perform many different tasks autonomously by interacting with their environment over a lifetime. Cognitive architectures that involve modular layered learning.