Professor Mike Brooks
BSc, MSc, PhD, FACS

Deputy Vice-Chancellor and Vice-President (Research)

University of Adelaide

Professor Mike Brooks was appointed to the position of Deputy Vice-Chancellor and Vice-President (Research) in July 2008. Professor Brooks is a leading international researcher in computer vision and image analysis. His work has seen wide commercial use in the security and defence industries and has resulted in international awards.

At the time of his appointment, Professor Brooks held the position of Pro Vice-Chancellor (Research Strategy), following on from his successful role as Chair of the Research Quality Framework Board, where he played a major part in auditing the University's research capability.

Professor Brooks is Research Leader of Video Surveillance within the Australian Centre for Visual Technologies at the University of Adelaide and is a former Head of the School of Computer Science, where he holds the Chair in Artificial Intelligence.

He has published numerous influential papers in the field of computer vision, image analysis and surveillance and has won many Australian Research Council (ARC) Discovery Grants for his research. Professor Brooks is a Fellow of the Australian Computer Society, Co-Investigator with the ARC Research Network for a Secure Australia, Associate Editor of the International Journal of Computer Vision, and serves on the Board of National ICT Australia.

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