Distinguished Emeritus Professor
Arun Sharma
Chancellery Division,
Office of the Vice-Chancellor & President
Biography
Professor Arun Sharma is:- Deputy Vice-Chancellor (Research and Commercialisation) - QUT
He has played a leadership role in developing Australian research capability in information and communication technology.
NICTA (National Information and Communications Technology Australia Ltd.)
- co-founder of NICTA – Australia’s national centre of excellence
- inaugural Director of NICTA's largest research laboratory.
Background
Prior to establishing NICTA, Arun was:
- Head - School of Computer Science and Engineering - University of New South Wales, Sydney
- Co-founder - UNSW - Cooperative Research Centre (CRC) for Smart Internet Technology.
Qualifications
Arun is a graduate of the Australian Institute of Company Directors, and has obtained the following qualifications:
- 1990: PhD in Computer Science from the State University of New York at Buffalo
- 1990 - 1991: postdoctoral training in the Department of Brain and Cognitive Sciences at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology
- 1985: undergraduate degree in Computer Science from the Birla Institute of Technology and Science, Pilani.
Personal details
Positions
- Distinguished Professor Emeritus
Chancellery Division,
Office of the Vice-Chancellor & President
Keywords
Algorithms, Computation Theory, Inductive Logic And Inference
Research field
Computation Theory and Mathematics, Computer Software
Field of Research code, Australian and New Zealand Standard Research Classification (ANZSRC), 2008
Qualifications
- PhD in Computer Science (State University of New York)
Professional memberships and associations
- Member - Advance Queensland Expert Advisory Panel
- Member - ARC Engagement & Impact - Performance & Impact Working Group
- Director - Adani Abbot Point Terminal Pty Ltd
- Team Champion, Qld Team - MIT Regional Entrepreneurship Acceleration Program (REAP)
Previous
- Director - Translational Research Institute
- Board Member - QMI Solutions Ltd
- Board Member- qutbluebox Pty Ltd
- Board Member - CRC for Integrated Engineering Asset Management
- Board Member - CRC for Smart Services
- Member - Queensland Premier’s Smart State Council
- Member - Premier’s Business Roundtable
- Board Member - Sugar Research Ltd
- Board Member - Farmacule Bioindustries Pty Ltd
- Board Member - Australasian CRC for Interaction Design
- Board Member - Creative Industries Pty Ltd
- Board Member - CRC for Construction Innovation
- Board Member - Gallipoli Medical Research Foundation
- Advisory role - ICT Sector Advisory Committee - CSIRO
- Advisory role - Independent Advisory Council - Australian Research Council
- Advisory role - Interim Advisory Board - Manufacturing Centre of the Enterprise Connect Program
Publications
- Martin, E., Sharma, A. & Stephan, F. (2004). On the data consumption benefits of accepting increased uncertainty. Algorithmic Learning Theory: proceedings of the 15th International Conference, ALT 2004, 83–98. https://eprints.qut.edu.au/37253
- Sharma, A., (2004). Web searching and Sigma2 queries. Advanced web technologies and applications: proceedings of the 6th Asia-Pacific Web Conference, APWeb 2004, 20–23. https://eprints.qut.edu.au/37251
- Jain, S. & Sharma, A. (2002). Mind change complexity of learning logic programs. Theoretical Computer Science, 284(1), 143–160. https://eprints.qut.edu.au/37256
- Case, J., Ott, M., Sharma, A. & Stephan, F. (2002). Learning to win process-control games watching game-masters. Information and Computation, 174(1), 1–19. https://eprints.qut.edu.au/37260
- Ignjatovic, A. & Sharma, A. (2004). Some applications of logic to feasibility in higher types. ACM Transactions on Computational Logic, 5(2), 332–350. https://eprints.qut.edu.au/37247
- Martin, E., Sharma, A. & Stephan, F. (2003). Learning power and language expressiveness. Theoretical Computer Science, 298(2), 365–383. https://eprints.qut.edu.au/37255
- Case, J., Kinber, E., Sharma, A. & Stephan, F. (2004). On the classification of recursive languages. Information and Computation, 192(1), 15–40. https://eprints.qut.edu.au/35727
- Case, J., Jain, S., Martin, E., Sharma, A. & Stephan, F. (2006). Identifying Clusters from Positive Data. SIAM Journal on Computing, 36(1), 28–55. https://eprints.qut.edu.au/13145
- Martin, E., Sharma, A. & Stephan, F. (2006). Unifying logic, topology and learning in Parametric logic. Theoretical Computer Science, 350(1), 103–124. https://eprints.qut.edu.au/22831
- Martin, E., Sharma, A. & Stephan, F. (2006). On ordinal VC-dimension and some notions of complexity. Theoretical Computer Science, 364(1), 62–76.
QUT ePrints
For more publications by Arun, explore their research in QUT ePrints (our digital repository).
Awards
- Type
- Academic Honours, Prestigious Awards or Prizes
- Reference year
- 2010
- Details
- Premier's Special Award for India partnerships builder