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Live television interview on rogue AI agents, the recent OpenAI incidents and what governments and industry must specify before deploying autonomous systems.
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Calls for zero-trust infrastructure and mandated engineering standards as a condition of operating AI in Australia.
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Why monitors should flag persistence past a refusal, and how an agent's remit quietly expands.
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Keynote at the SERI Update Meeting, IIIT Hyderabad.
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Research spotlight presented to industry at SERI 2026.
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Agency Justification Record and Agentic Delegation Policy: making agent authority an explicit requirements artefact.
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Recognised for contributions to education leadership.
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Automated Question Answering for Improved Understanding of Compliance Requirements. IEEE International Requirements Engineering Conference (RE'22).
2022Characterizing Human Aspects in Reviews of COVID-19 Apps. ACM International Conference on Mobile Software Engineering and Systems (MobileSoft'22).
2022A Machine Learning-Based Approach for Demarcating Requirements in Textual Specifications. Now a frequently cited benchmark in the field.
2019Dynamic Adaptation of Software-Defined Networks for IoT Systems. IEEE/ACM International Symposium on Software Engineering for Adaptive and Self-Managing Systems.
2020Tool demonstration recognised as best demo at the IEEE International Requirements Engineering Conference 2021.
2021Fellowships & Memberships
Institutional Recognition
Keynotes & Invited Talks
Keynote on why agentic AI failures are specification failures, and what RE must do about it.
Infosys Industry Day presentation on governing autonomous agents through requirements.

Invited keynote at the AI for Requirements Engineering workshop, co-located with IEEE RE 2025.

Invited talk and article for the International Requirements Engineering Board (IREB) practitioner publication on responsible AI use in engineering practice.

Lead organiser and invited speaker at ACM SIGSOFT-funded research school on AI-infused software engineering — expanding next-generation researcher capacity across the Indo-Pacific. Winter 2026.
Policy, Industry & Public Engagement

Invited panellist alongside the EU Ambassador to Australia and Horizon Europe leadership — discussing regulatory frameworks for AI and the role of requirements in AI accountability.
Research cited by Google at SIGCSE 2026 in their industry evidence session on how generative AI tools change how software engineers work — and where requirements skills matter most.
Invited contributor to edited volume on EU strategic autonomy and technology sovereignty — addressing the specification and governance of AI systems at a policy level.

Practitioner-facing conversation on how LLMs are reshaping the requirements engineering discipline — from elicitation through to specification and validation in real organisations.
Invited practitioner article for IREB RE-Magazine — reaching thousands of certified RE professionals globally on responsible AI integration into engineering practice.

Co-organiser of ACM SIGSOFT-funded intensive research school in AI-infused software engineering for postgraduate researchers across Australia. Summer 2026.
Available for keynotes, panels, podcast appearances, and expert commentary on AI governance, requirements engineering, and the future of software education.
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