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 currently is a Senior Research Engineer at National ICT Australia (NICTA) – Centre for Research Excellence, and Adjunct with Queensland University. He is a research fellow of Advanced Surveillance project at NICTA and currently is working on vision-based solutions for security and surveillance systems. Dr. Dadgostar is working actively in both industry and academia, and has more than 19 years experience in software engineering, and developing software projects. He is a Senior Member of IEEE, Member of IEEE Standards Association, and Affiliate for IEEE Software and Systems Engineering Standards Committee. He has been technical reviewer of several Journals including Pattern Recognition, Pattern Recognition Letters, International Journal of Computers and Applications and IEEE Transactions on Instrumentation, and technical committee member of conferences such as IEEE International Conference on Distributed Smart Cameras. 

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.

Dr. Arnold Wiliem received his bachelor of Computer Science with cum laude citation from University of Indonesia in 2006. In the following year, he won the highly competitive International Postgraduate Research Scholarships (IPRS) and pursued his PhD in Computer Vision at Queensland University of Technology (QUT). After finishing his PhD in 2010 he joined NICTA as a computer vision researcher in the domain of automatic medical image analysis. 

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.