Dr William Billingsley
Professor in Computational Science - School of Science and Technology
Phone: +61 2 6773 2513
Email: wbilling@une.edu.au
Building: C26, Mathematics, Statistics & Computer Science Building, Room 205
Biography
I came to academia from a background as a software engineer – prior to my PhD I was working in industry. In the early 2000s I moved to Cambridge for my PhD, where I worked on "the Intelligent Book" – smart and social education technology that enabled students to work cooperatively with machine reasoning systems. This gave me an ongoing interest in the HCI and software engineering aspects of AI – how people and systems that have very different ways of thinking about a problem can collaborate. (As well as interests in both technology education and education technology.)
From 2009 to 2014 I was a senior research engineer with NICTA. Initially I was building systems that could integrate many different kinds of automated analysis of a videorecorded conversation, for use in medical communication skills training. I also taught software engineering for the University of Queensland, where I co-developed a "supercollaborative" studio course. This put large numbers of students onto a common codebase, using continuous integration and other modern development practices, to learn the inherently collaborative nature of software development.
I joined UNE in 2015, becoming the coordinator of the BCompSc through its redesign.
