Distinguished Professor Fang Chen
Executive Director, UTS Data Sciences Institute
Distinguished Professor Fang Chen is an award-winning, internationally-recognised leader in artificial intelligence (AI) and data science. She is passionately innovative in her work, architecting and implementing data-driven solutions to problems met in industry and governments. Her experience in solving these complex real-life problems in large-scale networks span transport, water, energy, health, agriculture and many more sectors. She is also actively promoting ethical, human-centred AI.
Fang won the “Oscar” of Australian science – the Australian Museum Eureka Prize 2018 for Excellence in Data Science. She is the “Water Professional of the Year”, awarded by the Australian Water Association in 2016. In 2021, she won the Australia and New Zealand “Women in AI” Award in Infrastructure and the NSW Premier’s Prize of Science and Engineering.
Fang is a member of the inaugural NSW Government AI Advisory Committee and is on several boards, including ITS Australia.
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