Maurice Pagnucco FTSE

My Ph.D. dissertation (1996) investigated The Role of Abductive Reasoning within the Process of Belief Revision (click on this link to view the abstract and, if you wish, download a gzip’ed postscript version). It deals mainly with the belief revision framework developed by Alchourrón, Gärdenfors and Makinson (AGM) and uses this theory to investigate various abductive belief revision operators.

My main research interests lie in Artificial Intelligence:

• Knowledge Representation and Reasoning
• Belief Change
• Cognitive Robotics
• Reasoning About Actions
• Computational Machine Ethics
• Neurosymbolic Machine Learning
• Trustworthy Artificial Intelligence
• Reasoning and Truthfullness in Large Language Models
• Robotic Vision

Currently I am the Deputy Dean (Education) of the Faculty of Engineering at UNSW.

Previously I served as the Head of the School of Computer Science and Engineering (CSE) from July 2010 to September 2019.

Other roles I currently hold include:

• Fellow, Australian Academy of Technological Sciences & Engineering (ATSE)
• Deputy Director of Creative Robotics Lab (CRL) and Co-Director of the Intelligent Environments Lab
• Professorial Fellow at the iCinema Centre for Interactive Cinema Research
• Director & Chair Lifetime Awards, Pearcey Foundation
• Vice President, Computing Research and Education Association of Australasia (CORE)
• Executive, Australian Council of Engineering Deans (ACED)
• College of Experts, Australian Research Council (ARC)
• Member, Artificial Intelligence (AI) & Ethics Committee, Australian Computer Society (ACS)

Previous roles I have held include:

• President (mid-2016 – mid-2018) and the Immediate Past President (mid-2018 – mid-2020) of the Australian Council of Deans of ICT (ACDICT)
• Chair of NICTA (now Data61; Australia’s national ICT centre of excellence) University Partner Committee
• Chair, NSW Steering Committee for Digital Careers.