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Pro Vice-Chancellor (Research Strategy)

Professor Mike Brooks Pro Vice-Chancellor (Research Strategy)

Professor Mike Brooks BSc, MSc, PhD, FACS

Professor Mike Brooks' appointment as Pro Vice-Chancellor (Research Strategy) follows on from his appointment as Chair of the Research Quality Framework Board at the University of Adelaide. The RQF Board was established in 2007 to oversee the University's preparation for Australia's first research assessment exercise, scheduled for introduction in 2008.

At the time of his appointment to the RQF Board, Professor Brooks was head of the School of Computer Science, where he holds the Chair in Artificial Intelligence.

He is a leading international researcher in computer vision and image analysis and has published over 100 articles in the field. His work has seen wide commercial utilisation and has resulted in international awards in the area of video surveillance.

Professor Brooks served for eight years on various Australia Research Council Discovery Grant committees. From 1992-2006 he was a Program Leader within the Cooperative Research Centre for Sensor Signal and Information Processing. He is a Fellow of the Australian Computer Society, an associate editor of the International Journal of Computer Vision, and serves on the board of National ICT Australia. More details may be found here