Professor Iadine Chadès

I am the Director of the Environmental Informatics Hub at the Faculty of Information Technology, Monash University, and Professor of AI in the Department of Data Science and AI. My research lies at the forefront of linking domain sciences—such as ecology, epidemiology, and social sciences—with advanced quantitative tools from artificial intelligence (AI), developing innovative methods for smart decision-making under uncertainty and resource constraints. Building on my PhD work with Markov decision processes (MDP) applied to mobile robotics, I shifted my focus in 2006 to apply these principles in conservation science by integrating AI with ecological and economic models to solve complex problems.