Leadership, service and recognition

Lead, IJCNN Mentoring Program, IEEE WCCI 2026

Part of the IEEE CIS Student and Early Career Mentoring Program, Maastricht, Netherlands.

Joint Lead, IJCNN Mentoring Program, 2024 and 2025

Part of the IEEE CIS Student and Early Career Mentoring Program, Yokohama, Japan and Rome, Italy.

Vice-Chair, IEEE CIS Mentoring and Skills Development Sub-Committee

2025 to present, member from 2024. The sub-committee runs the IEEE CIS Student and Early Career Mentoring Program, including the mentoring programs and Paper Development Workshops at the Society's flagship conferences.

Member, IEEE CIS Diversity and Inclusion Subcommittee

2022 to 2024.

Co-Chair, Women in Artificial Intelligence

AJCAI 2020 and Canberra AI Week 2020, and co-organiser of the Women in AI panel at IEEE SSCI 2020.

Academic Editor, PLOS ONE

Handling peer review across machine learning and computational topics.

Journal reviewer

IEEE Transactions on Artificial Intelligence, Neural Networks and Learning Systems, Cybernetics, Evolutionary Computation, and Emerging Topics in Computational Intelligence.

Program committee member

ECAI, AAAI, IJCAI, and ICONIP.

School Executive Member at Large

School of Systems and Computing, 2025 to present.

Faculty AI Education Strategy Workgroup

2023 to 2024, contributing to the new postgraduate AI courses.

AI Discipline Coordinator

2021 to 2023.

Robotics Activity Lead, National Youth Science Forum

2026.

Robotics and AI lead, Young Women in Engineering

UNSW Canberra outreach to high-school students, 2019 to 2025.

Women in Engineering Coordinator, UNSW Canberra

2018 to 2020, leading mentoring, industry networking, and a school partnership.

Mentor, WOMEN@UNSW Canberra Champions Program

2022 to 2023, and panellist at International Women's Day, 2024.

IEEE Senior Member

Elevated 2024, member of the IEEE Computational Intelligence Society.

Treasurer, Canberra ACM-W Chapter

2024 to present, member of the ACM.

Keynote, Inspirational Women

Women in Computational Intelligence, IEEE SSCI 2020 and Canberra AI Week.

Dell EMC Award of Distinction, 2017

For teaching data analytics for big data: 317 of 323 enrolled students earned the EMC Data Scientist Associate certification.

IBM Big Data Developer Instructor Award, 2017

For teaching the Big Data Developer course: 92 of 96 enrolled students earned IBM certification.

Unsung Hero recognition

UNSW Canberra, 2021, for initiatives supporting early-career researchers and HDR students.