Mary-Anne Williams

Professor Mary-Anne Williams is Director of Disruptive Innovation at the University of Technology Sydney (UTS) and listed on the Robohub’s top 25 women in robotics. She has a PhD in Computer Science and a Masters in Law. Mary-Anne is a Fellow at the Australian Academy of Technological Sciences and Engineering, and is a leading authority on Knowledge Representation and Reasoning with transdisciplinary strengths in AI, Social Robotics, Machine Learning, Robot Ethics, IP Law and Privacy Law. She is Founder and Director of the Magic Lab at the University of Technology Sydney (UTS) and Guest Professor at the University of Science and Technology China. Mary-Anne chaired the Australian Research Council’s Excellence in Research for Australia Committee that undertook a national evaluation of research in Mathematics, Information and Computing Sciences in 2012. She is a non-executive director of the US-based Scientific Foundation KR Inc., was Conference Chair of the International Conference on Social Robotics in 2014, and serves on the Editorial Board for AAAI/MIT Press, the Information Systems Journal, Artificial Intelligence Journal, and the ACM Eugene L. Lawler Award Committee for Humanitarian Contributions within Computer Science and Informatics.

Mary-Anne was appointed a Fellow with CodeX in 2009 where she pursues work on privacy, IP Law, service design, collaborative innovation and creative technologies.