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Qualifications
Positions
  • B.Sc. (Hons) in Mathematics, University of Melbourne, 1993

    • Thesis topic: "The Destruction of KAM Tori in Chaotic Dynamical Systems"

    • Supervised by Prof. Colin Thompson

 

  • Ph.D., University of Melbourne, 1996

    • Thesis topic: "Solving Combinatorial Optimisation Problems using Neural Networks"

    • jointly supervised by M. Palaniswami (Univ of Melbourne) and M. Krishnamoorthy (CSIRO Division of Mathematics and Statistics)

  • Pro Vice-Chancellor (Research Capability), University of Melbourne (August 2023 - )

  • Director, ARC Industrial Transformation Training Centre in Optimisation Technologies, Integrated Methodologies and Applications (OPTIMA) (Jan 2021 - )

  • School of Mathematics and Statistics, The University of Melbourne

    • Melbourne Laureate Professor (March 2021 - )

    • Professor of Applied Mathematics (Sept 2017 - )
    • ARC Australian Laureate Fellow (Sept 2017 - Dec 2020)

 

  • Associate Dean (Enterprise & Innovation), Faculty of Science, The University of Melbourne (Aug 2019 - July 2023)

  • School of Mathematical Sciences, Monash University

    • Professor and Head of School (2009-2014)

    • Director of MAXIMA (Sept 2013 - Sept 2017)

    • ARC Australian Laureate Fellow (Dec 2014 - Sept 2017 )

 

  • School of Engineering and Information Technology, Deakin University

    • Professor and Head of School (2006-2009)

 

  • School of Business Systems, Monash University

    • Professor (2006)

    • Associate Professor (2003-2005)

    • Senior Lecturer (1999-2002)

    • Lecturer (1996-1998)

Selected Community Contributions
Awards
  • President, Australian Mathematical Society (Dec 2016-Dec 2018)

  • Member, Australian Research Council, College of Experts (2017-2019)

  • Member of Prime Minister's Knowledge Nation 100

  • Chair, Advisory Board, Choose Maths program (partnership between AMSI and BHP Billiton Foundation)

  • Member, Advisory Board, MATRIX (2016-2019)

  • Editorial Board, Machine Learning Journal (2021 - )

  • Area Editor, Computers & Operations Research (2013 - 2016)

  • Chair of the IEEE Technical Committee on Data Mining, IEEE Computational Intelligence Society, (2007-2008)

  • Program Chair, IEEE International Joint Conference on Neural Networks, 2012

  • Associate Editor, IEEE Transactions on Neural Networks (2008-2010)

  • Associate Editor, NeuroComputing (2004-2007)

  • CSIRO Mathematicians in Schools program (2013 - present)

  • Officer of the Order of Australia (AO) in King's Birthday Honours (2024), for distinguished service to tertiary education, applied mathematical research, and as a role model and advocate for women in STEM.

  • Moyal Medal (2023) from Macquarie University for distinguished contributions to mathematics

  • Elected Fellow, Australian Academy of Science (2022)

  • Melbourne Laureate Professor (2021) from the University of Melbourne - details

  • Ren Potts Medal (2019) from the Australian Society for Operations Research, for outstanding contributions to the theory and practice of operations research in Australia 

  • UNSW Women in Mathematics and Statistics Ambassador Award (2019)

  • E.O. Tuck Medal (2017) from the Australian and New Zealand Industrial and Applied Mathematics Society (ANZIAM), for outstanding research and distinguished service over the last 20 years.

  • ARC Laureate Fellowship (2014-2019) with Georgina Sweet Award - details

  • Australian Mathematical Society Medal (2010)

    • Citation on award: "Kate Smith-Miles is internationally known for interdisciplinary applications of mathematics, characterised by their extraordinary breadth, as well as an exceptional attention to rigour. She is especially respected for her influential studies of neural networks, chaotic systems, optimisation problems, and machine learning.”

  • Vice-Chancellor's Award for Excellence in Postgraduate Supervision (2012)

  • Elected Fellow, Australian Mathematical Society (2010)

  • Elected Fellow, Institute of Engineers Australia (2008)

Invited Keynote/Plenary Talks (Selected)

  • Plenary lecture at International Conference on Optimization, Learning Algorithms and Applications, Ponta Delgada, Portugal, Sept 2023

  • Keynote at Lorentz Centre workshop on Benchmarked: Optimization Meets Machine Learning, Leiden, June 2022

  • Keynote lecture, 6th International School on Deep Learning, Portugal, April 2022

  • Special Address to the International Mathematics Olympiad Australian Team Announcement, Canberra (online), June 2021

  • European Summer School ECOLE (Experience based Computation: Learning to Optimise), Leiden (online), June 2021

  • 20th Computational Techniques and Applications Conference (CTAC), Sydney (online), Sept 2020

  • Mathematical Association of Victoria annual conference (MAV19), Melbourne, Dec 2019

  • Australasian Joint Conference on Artificial Intelligence and Australasian Data Mining Conference, Adelaide, Dec 2019

  • SIAM International Conference on Data Mining, workshop on Evaluation and Experimental Design in Data Mining and Machine Learning, Calgary, May 2019

  • Public Lecture, Women of Mathematics Day, ANU Canberra, Feb 2019

  • Lorentz Centre workshop on Advancing Verification Competitions as a Scientific Method, Leiden, Feb 2019

  • 5th Asia-Pacific World Congress on Computing Science, Fiji, December 2018

  • Annual Alexander Rubinov Memorial Lecture, Federation University, Ballarat, November 2018

  • International Joint Conference on Artificial Intelligence, workshop on Data Science Meets Optimization, Stockholm, July 2018

  • Masterclass on Data Science meets Combinatorial Optimisation,  CPAIOR Conference, Delft, The Netherlands, June 2018

  • 22nd Pacific-Asia Conference on Knowledge Discovery and Data Mining, (PAKKD) Melbourne, June 2018

  • Australian and New Zealand Industrial and Applied Mathematics (ANZIAM) Conference, Hobart, February 2018

  • Annual Alan Tayler Lecture, Smith Institute, Oxford, November, 2017

  • Annual G. S. Watson Lecture, Latrobe University, Bendigo, September, 2017

  • Australasian Conference on Artificial Life and Computational Intelligence, Geelong, February 2017

  • International Conference on Machine Learning, workshop on Automatic Machine Learning, New York, June 2016

  • Complex Systems Design and Management, Singapore, February 2016

  • Australasian Joint Conference on Artificial Intelligence, Canberra, December 2015

  • Genetic and Evolutionary Computation Conference (GECCO), Madrid, July 2015

  • Australian Society for Operations Research (ASOR) Recent Advances, Broadcast Nationally via Access-Grid, February 2015

  • Practice and Theory of Automated Timetabling (PATAT), York (UK), August 2014

  • International Federation of Operations Research Societies (IFORS) Conference, Barcelona, July 2014

  • South Pacific Optimisation Meeting, Newcastle, 2013

  • Workshop on Travelling Salesman, Hamiltonian Cycles and Related Problems, Flinders University, 2012

  • New Zealand Mathematical Society Colloquium 2012

  • Australian Mathematical Society Annual Meeting, Ballarat, 2012

  • Integer Programming Down Under workshop, Newcastle, 2011

  • Australia and New Zealand Industrial and Applied Mathematics (ANZIAM) annual conference, Adelaide, 2011.

  • Brazilian Symposium on Artificial Neural Networks, Sao Paulo, October 2010.

  • Advances in Business Analytics and Optimization, Chile, 2010.

  • Australian Data Mining Conference, Melbourne, 2009.

  • 6th IEEE/ACIS ICIS 2007 July 11-13, 2007, Melbourne, Australia

  • International Joint Conference on Neural Networks, workshop on meta-learning, Orlando, August 16th, 2007.

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