Charles Gretton

I am an Artificial Intelligence (AI) expert with 20 years experience, involving both research in academia and research commercialisation. I co-founded the Australian AI company HIVERY in 2015, which is a CSIRO Data61 spinout supported by the Coca-Cola Founders platform. My existing areas of expertise sit across Machine Learning and Automated Reasoning. I have successfully applied my expertise in a wide range of applications including but not limited to continental scale retail business optimisation, computer security, astronomical instrumentation, and mobile robot control. My vision and focus is on developing AIs that extend and augment human capability. This is achieved through the study and development of AI that reasons about change in the world, and about how to extend knowledge and understanding about the world.

In addition to my research, development and applications experience, I have gained substantial teaching and administration experience at the tertiary level. From as early as 2006 I have been a lecturer, delivering the Advanced Topics in AI course at Griffith University, Australia. Since 2013 I have been lecturing at the Australian National University. I have lectured in a number of core discipline topics, including Theoretical Computer Science and Artificial Intelligence. In late 2017 I was appointed convener of a cluster of professional courses at the ANU offered under the title TechLauncher. That includes the Master of Machine Learning and Computer Vision “Capstone” course at ANU. In this program, industry, business and government organisations engage and collaborate with teams of early career professionals and scientists, to develop, prototype and launch real solutions. TechLauncher is an important initiative that enables participating students to develop and exhibit the research and professional skills required to use technology to bring great ideas to life, start/build new businesses, and broadly have a positive impact in society.