From 1983 to1986, Professor Brian Lovell worked in Saudi Arabia and Egypt with Schlumberger SA. He then returned to the University of Queensland topursue his PhD. While studying for his PhD, he was offered a lecturing position in 1989. In 2000, Professor Lovell was visiting professor atthe MIT Media Lab, Michigan State University, and the University ofAlberta. In 2004 he was appointed Director of Engineering in the Schoolof ITEE at the University of Queensland.

Abbas Bigdeli received his bachelor of Electronics Engineering in 1995 from Amir Kabir University of Technology, Tehran, Iran. He started his postgraduate study at James Cook University, Australia in 1996 and concluded in 2000 when he  joined the faculty of Engineering at the University of Auckland, New Zealand. He moved back to Australia in 2006 to join NICTA as a researcher in the SAFE project.
Abbas has collaborated on industrial projects with various companies in New Zealand, Australia and USA. He has more than 10 years experience in consultancy, scientific research and technology leadership in the areas of digital signal and image processing, computer architecture, and information security. He has designed a number of innovative high performance embedded systems including an AES grade Security System for Wireless LAN and the first portable real-time face recognition system. He has published over 60 papers in journals, book chapters and refereed international conferences. He has invented 3 patents in the areas of information security and computer vision.
He has been technical reviewer for several journals including Journal of Microprocessors and Microsystems, European Signal Processing Association Journals, Australian Journal of Research and Practice in IT, as well as conferences such as FPL, IEEE VLSI and EUSIPCO.

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Dr Conrad Sanderson received the Bachelor of Engineering degree with 1st Class Honours in 1996 and the PhD degree in 2003 from Griffith University, Queensland, Australia.
He has previously worked on robust speech recognition at the Advanced Telecommunication Research Laboratories (Japan), audio-visual biometrics and non-frontal face recognition at the IDIAP Research Institute (Switzerland), ship classification in infra-red images at the Centre for Sensor Signal and Information Processing (Australia), as well as natural language processing and bioinformatics at NICTA.
He has served as a reviewer for a number of international conferences and scientific periodicals (such as the Proceedings of the IEEE journal). His current research interests include applied areas of machine learning, pattern recognition and computer vision, with applications such as intelligent surveillance.

Dr. Farhad Dadgostar received the Bachelor of Engineering degree in 1993 and Masters in Software Engineering in 1997 both with rank first from IUT and UI in Iran. In 2003 Farhad joined to the Institute of Information and Mathematical Sciences at Massey University in Auckland, New Zealand to pursue his PhD degree in Computer Science with focus on Human-Computer Interaction and Computer-Vision. He concluded his research in 2006, and he has published over 30 papers in refereed international journals, book chapters and conference proceedings. Farhad is one of the developers of the Open Computer Vision library, and some of his novel algorithms were implemented as standard components of the OpenCV library. Since 1991, Farhad is working actively in both industry and academia, and has more than 18 years experience in software engineering, and developing software projects. Farhad is a Senior Member of IEEE, Member of IEEE Standards Association, and Affiliate for IEEE Software and Systems Engineering Standards Committee. He is currently reviewer of Journal of Pattern Recognition, Pattern Recognition Letters, International Journal of Computers and Applications and IEEE Transactions on Instrumentation. 

Prior to her commencement at NICTA, she was working as a Commercialisation Analyst for QUT's technology transfer company, qutbluebox.  Her interest in transferring research to society has led her to pursue a MBA part-time.  Her research background includes a research Master’s in Robotics at Carnegie Mellon University, where she contributed to a NASA project to develop a platform for managing autonomous robot perception, control, and communications. Her Bachelor’s (Hons) was in Engineering Science at University of Toronto with an Honours thesis investigating visual localisation.

Yong received the Bachelor of Engineering Degree with 1st Class Honour from The University of Adelaide in 2006. During his undergraduate study, he was a research scholar in NICTA Canberra Research Lab (CRL) during summer 04/05 and 05/06 working on real time DSP receiver design. He worked as a electronics product design engineer in Clipsal Integrated System (CIS). His contribution to the installation fault detection algorithm for CIS’s C-Bus network system is currently under patent application. He also worked in Codan Limited prior to his PhD study.