Sally Cripps

Human Technology Institute, University of Technology Sydney

Director, Technology and Professor

Sally Cripps is an internationally recognized scholar and leader in Bayesian Machine Learning (ML) and Artificial Intelligence (AI). In addition to her role as Director of Technology at the Human Technology Institute she is a Professor of Mathematics and Statistics at the University of Technology Sydney. Sally has held a number of leadership positions in ML and AI. She was cofounder and co-director of the University of Sydney’s Centre for Translation Data Science (CTDS), she was founder and Director of the Australian Research Council’s Industrial Transformation Training Centre (ARC ITTC) Data Analytics for Resources and Environments (DARE). Most recently Sally was Research Director of Analytics and Decision Science and Science Director of the Next Gen AI Training Programme in CSIRO’s Data61. She was also chair of the International Bayesian Society for Bayesian Analysis (ISBA) section on Education and Research in practice. She has served as a board member for Climate Services for Agriculture in the Department of Water and the Environment and as a member of the Data Analytics Centre of NSW Health and Human Services Expert Working Group and the NSW Smart Cities Research & Academic Working Group.

Sally’s research focuses on the development of new foundational methods in AI to address global challenges. Her work has been published in the world’s most prestigious statistical and machine learning journals such as, The Journal of the Royal Statistical Society, and the Journal of the American Statistical Association; Theory and methods, (JASA), Biometrika and Journal of Computational and Graphical Statistics (JCGS), Conference on Neural Information Processing Systems (NeurIPS) and Conference on Artificial Intelligence and Statistics (AIStats). She has applied these methods to a diverse range of fields including social disadvantage, mental health, climate, minerals and the environment. In recognition of the quality of her research Sally was awarded an ARC Future Fellowship and a visiting scholar fellowship to the Alan Turing Institute in the UK. Sally has attracted over $25M in industry, government and philanthropic funding.