Tiberio Caetano Named Honorary Professor at ANU
Tiberio Caetano Named Honorary Professor at ANU
Tiberio Caetano, Chief Scientist of the Gradient Institute, has been awarded the title of Honorary Professor by the ANU.Tiberio is one of Australia's leading machine learning practitioners and researchers, with a world-class record of both research and industry practice. He took his PhD in 2004, and after a postdoctoral position at the University of Alberta worked at NICTA from 2005 through 2013, when he founded his own machine learning company, Ambiata, which he sold to Australia's largest insurance conglomerate, IAG, in 2014. Ambiata's success is evidenced by its awards from both NICTA and the BigInsights Data Innovation awards, as well as its continued strength and growth. Tiberio has also served as advisor to the Chief Customer Officer of IAG.His primary research contributions are in probabilist graphical models. His particular contributions are in graph matching, which tackles computationally hard problems and has many applications to computer vision, such as automated object and scene understanding, or taking into account the relationship among different object classes.His work has been routinely published in the leading venues for machine learning—ten times in NIPS, five in ICML—as well as computer vision (CVPR, PAMI). He is a long-standing program committee member of NIPS/NeurIPS, as well as ICML, of which he was Area Chair in 2014. In 2019, Tiberio, Bill Simpson-Young, and a team of stellar ML researchers launched the Gradient Institute, an independent, not-for-profit research institute jointly funded by IAG, the University of Sydney, and CSIRO Data61. Gradient has already established itself as one of the world's most exciting groups of ethical machine learning practitioners and researchers. They have undertaken significant projects with government partners in Australia and overseas, and promise to make an indispensable contribution to realising the promise of fair, accountable, and transparent machine learning systems.Tiberio and the team at Gradient have already been highly valued partners of the HMI project, sharing ideas and experiences, and collaborating on concrete projects. We're delighted to recognise his contributions to the ANU with an Honorary Professorship, and we look forward to many future collaborations.